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Braganza, Chantal. 2010.
Don’t confuse Daniel Clowes with an opinionated, middle-aged loner
Ghost World author is back with Wilson, his first full-length comic in five years. But he’s not the protagonist.
Toronto Star (May 6): http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/article/805305--don-t-confuse-daniel-clowes-with-an-opinionated-middle-aged-loner
Khosla, Abhay et al. 2010.
Savage Symposium: Wilson By Dan Clowes.
Savage Critics blog (May 10): http://www.savagecritic.com/roundtable/savage-symposium-wilson-by-dan-clowes/
Levack, Chandler. 2010.
Comic timing: After six years, Daniel Clowes is returning to the Toronto Comic Arts Festival with Wilson, his first original graphic novel with Drawn & Quarterly. The only problem? He's more afraid of success than ever.
Eye Weekly (May 5): http://www.eyeweekly.com/arts/article/91751--comic-timing
Del Signore, John. 2010.
Daniel Clowes, Cartoonist.
Gothamist (May 5): http://gothamist.com/2010/05/05/daniel_clowes_illustrator.php
Rudick, Nicole. 2010.
Daniel Clowes [Cartoonist].
Believer (May).
Partially online at http://www.believermag.com/issues/201005/?read=interview_clowes
Miliard, Mike. 2010.
Interview: Daniel Clowes: On going from Enid to Wilson.
Boston Phoenix (April 27): http://thephoenix.com/boston/arts/101313-interview-daniel-clowes/
Brooks, Allen. 2010.
DCist Interview: Daniel Clowes.
DCist (April 30): http://dcist.com/2010/04/dcist_interview_daniel_clowes.php
Kois, Dan. 2010.
Panel Discussion Daniel Clowes covers cartoon history in one graphic novel.
NYmag.com (May 2): http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/65724/
Deusner, Stephen M. 2010.
Stick Figure: Daniel Clowes, 'Wilson'.
Express (May 3): http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2010/05/daniel-clowes-wilson-politics-prose.php
Chute, Hillary. 2010.
Off-page with... Dan Clowes: With Wilson, the graphic novelist has more fun being bleak.
Time Out New York (761; April 29–May 5).
Online at http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/books/85200/off-page-with-daniel-clowes
Howard, Dave. 2010.
Dan Clowes' new Graphic Novel, Wilson,
Torontoist (April 14): http://books.torontoist.com/2010/04/dan-clowes-new-graphic-novel-wilson/
Mercier, Jean-Pierre. 2009.
“ Je crois que je me suis toujours senti à part”: entretien avec Dan Clowes.
Ninth Art: http://neuviemeart.citebd.org/spip.php?article34
Rhode, Mike. 2010.
International Ink: Clowes, Kids, Crackers and Hellboy [reviews].
Washington City Paper Arts Desk blog (April 29): http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/books/2010/04/29/international-ink-clowes-kids-crackers-and-hellboy/
Rhode, Mike. 2010.
“Likable Characters Are for Weak-Minded Narcissists”: A Chat with Daniel Clowes.
Washington City Paper Arts Desk blog (May 3): http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/books/2010/05/03/likeable-characters-are-for-weak-minded-narcissists-a-chat-with-daniel-clowes/#more-23182
'Iron Man 2' doesn't quite live up to its first installment
Sally Kline
Washington Examiner May 7, 2010
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Library of Congress
101 Independence Avenue SE
Washington DC 20540
May 5, 2010
Public contact: Martha Kennedy (202) 707-9115, mkenn@loc.gov
Cartoons of Early Turkish Republic
To Be Topic of Swann Fellow's Lecture on June 1
Swann Foundation Fellow Yasemin Gencer will explore the visual and textual rhetoric of cartoons from the early years of the Turkish Republic in a lecture June 1 at the Library of Congress.
Gencer will present "Cartooning Progress: Secularism and Nationalism in the Early Turkish Republic (1922-28)" at noon on Tuesday, June 1, in Dining Room A on the sixth floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C. The event is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are needed.
In her illustrated talk, Gencer will discuss how cartoons had the power to create, shape and project a new Turkish national identity based on European models. She will look at cartoons that highlight reforms initiated during the early years of the Turkish Republic. In one cartoon, for example, an automobile made of Latin letters speeds past a camel composed of Arabic letters, demonstrating how the cartoonist combines text with visual metaphor to underscore the benefits of changing the official alphabet. Such cartoons from 1922-28 illustrate many reforms aimed at secularizing the nation.
The Turkish Republic of today was established in 1922, following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the wake of World War I. Under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal (1881-1938), known as Kemal Atatürk, the new republic put forth a reform program intended to distance the state socially and politically from its Ottoman and Islamic past, while simultaneously drawing itself closer to the secular and more technologically developed nations in the West.
As the first president of the Turkish Republic, Kemal is credited with modernizing his nation's legal and educational systems and encouraging the adoption of aspects of European daily life. The transition from Turkish written in Arabic to Turkish written in the Latin alphabet can be seen as part of the modernization that unfolded during this period.
In her lecture, Gencer will draw on the materials that she has studied in the collections of the African and Middle Eastern Division and the Prints and Photographs Division.
Gencer completed a master's degree in 2008, with a focus on Turkish studies, in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University. Currently a doctoral student in the Department of the History of Art at Indiana University, she is studying Islamic arts with a specialization in Ottoman and Turkish Republican print culture. Her dissertation focuses on cartoon arts and satirical journals of the early Turkish Republican period.
The lecture, sponsored by the Swann Foundation, the Prints and Photographs Division and the African and Middle Eastern Division, is part of the foundation's continuing activities to support the study, interpretation, preservation and appreciation of original works of humorous and satiric art by graphic artists from around the world.
The Swann Foundation's advisory board is comprised of scholars, collectors, cartoonists and Library of Congress staff members. The foundation strives to award fellowships annually to assist scholarly research and writing projects in the field of caricature and cartoon. Applications for the 2011-2012 academic year are due Feb. 15, 2011. More information about the fellowship is available through the Swann Foundation's website www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/swannhome or by e-mailing swann@loc.gov.
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ISSN: 0731-3527
McEvoy Auditorium, Lower Level
American Art Museum
