Art Review | 'Africa Comics': African Comics, Far Beyond the Funny Pages
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The Studio MuseumÂs survey offers an inside view of Africa, detailed by handmade, graphically inventive and conceptually imaginative images.
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The story behind an exhibition: postcards, designs, photography, travels, history, stamps and law enforcement.
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Naach is visually interesting and technically masterful, but Antara Mali is not original
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This collection brings together nearly three decades of Roz ChastÂs cartoons, which capture the oddness, discontinuity and plain absurdity of the world around us.
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Comic books, once the bastard child of pop culture, are now promoted as High Art
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MySpace Comic Books, the comics corner of this online social network, and Meltdown Comics, a store in Los Angeles, have teamed up to commemorate the end of âY: The Last Man,â the comic book series created by Brian K. Vaughan, above, and Pia Guerra. The event, âY: The Last Party,â will be held on Friday, Feb. 8, and will benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. The organization, founded in 1986, is dedicated to the preservation of First Amendment rights for members of the comic book business. Of late the defense fund has been involved in the case of Gordon Lee, a comic book retailer in Rome, Ga., who has found himself in court over the distribution of obscene material to a minor. The material in question depicted Picasso in the nude. Mr. Vaughan, who is also a writer on ABCâs âLost,â is a firm believer in the defense fund. âItâs obviously a completely different situation from the writersâ strike, but, similarly, itâs creators taking care of their community, which I always support,â he said in a telephone interview. The $100 V.I.P. tickets have sold out, but a limited number of $25 tickets will be available the day of the event. More information:www.myspace.com/cbldf.
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Doha: Works by cartoonists in the Arab press should depict what the West should learn about the Arab world, says leading French cartoonist, Jean Plantureux, best known as Plantu.
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Gabe: We actually created yesterdays comic on stage at PAX. After I had finished I started doodling all over the first panel. The fans in the audience made me promise to upload this version as well as the regular comic. So here you go:
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This deadpan fable of colliding cultures from the urban-lore cartoonist Ben Katchor blurs the line between two and three dimensions to the point that it creates its own spatial universe.
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How Lawrence Weiner transforms text into works of art.
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Ready for takeoff More modern, more art
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I&#8217;ve fallen in love with the comic strip Octopus Pie. Not only am I enjoying the strip as a fan, but as a creator too. Every day, Meredith draws something so fluid, expressive and amazing that it makes me totally jealous and inspired at the same time. Another strip having a similar effect on me is [...]
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âVince Vaughnâs Wild West Comedy Showâ imagines itself a contemporary equivalent of rootinâ- tootinâ traveling entertainments like Buffalo Billâs Wild West Show. Thatâs a tall comparison to draw.
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ÂOne Way or Another: Asian American Art NowÂ surveys Asian-American art today, a generation after the first waves of multiculturalism and identity politics broke across the art world.
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A month ago I was introduced to the works of Michel Gondry.  In short, I was amazed and tantalized by his short films and music videos.  Even if you haven't heard of him, you've probably seen his many works in Gap commercials, various music videos, and the recent movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.    Many of his works explode with visual elements that, when taken alone, are simple and mundane.  However, under his masterful guidance, these elements come together to form a highly mesmerizing visual experience.  He never ceases to push visual technologies and challenge our ideas about the visual medium.
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DUBAI (Reuters Life!) - Senegalese artist Amadou Kan-Si's paintings might not be in the typically distinctive geometric and calligraphic style of most Islamic art but they are meant to capture moments of spirituality in Muslim prayer.
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Tycho: This podcast covers the writing process for today's comic (and a number of other tangents). Of course, it's entirely possible you had already subscribed to the feed and are currently listening to it. In which case, I apologize profusely.   (CW)TB