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Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Nov 14: Satire and Paper Money talk at Library of Congress
New Research at The John W. Kluge Center
Topic: The Art of Paper Money
Scholar: Amanda Lahikainen, Kluge Fellow
November 7, 2013
What roles have artists and printmakers played in the normalization of paper money?
Art historian Amanda Lahikainen, Kluge Fellow at The John W. Kluge Center, is researching the responses of British artists and printmakers to the introduction of paper money in England while at the Kluge Center.
Lahikainen has spent the past six months as a scholar-in-residence at The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. She is looking at the ways in which print artists in England satirized the introduction of paper money and the ways in which art may have helped enable paper money to become normalized in society more broadly.
"Satire responds to important events. One of those important events was the increased use of paper money in England in 1797," Lahikainen says. "Prime Minister William Pitt declared paper money the de facto currency. Suddenly, people could no longer bring credit instruments to the bank and exchange it for gold. The result was great unease and distrust."
British satirists responded with grotesque and scatological imagery deriding the new system. Some produced imitation, satirical bank notes that challenged the trust in the new currency. A few supported the new instruments. But in all cases, Lahikainen says, the work of satirists helped to normalize a paper money system backed by trust and not by bullion.
"Even when they're mocking the currency, they're also helping people grow more accustomed to it," Lahikainen says. "This early period of paper money offers an important glimpse into how the process of naturalization took place—a naturalization we take for granted today."
Among the satirists Lahikainen is researching is little-known engraver John Luffman. Luffman began printing satirical bank notes in 1803, and his notes were re-printed in 1818. The Library of Congress has one of the preeminent collections of satirical banknotes in the world, including Luffman's.
Lahikainen recently shared examples of British satirical bank notes with researchers at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. "They were unfamiliar with this tradition, and it was wonderful to hear their responses," she says. "We then spoke about the definition of money more broadly. It was a great discussion."
Lahikainen is in residence at the Kluge Center through December.
Upcoming Events with Amanda Lahikainen
Graphic Satire, Paper Money and the Art of Engraving in Britain, 1797-1821
with Amanda Lahikainen, Kluge Fellow
Thursday, November 14 at 12:00 pm in room LJ-113
Amanda Lahikainen, Assistant Professor of Art History at Aquinas College, on the connections between art and money, and how graphic satires and satirical banknotes reflected and helped produce the changing cultures of paper money and engraving in England.
Nov 19: Rep. John Lewis at National Press Club book fair
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to purchase.Monday, November 11, 2013
'Smithsonian' list includes Wonder Woman
The November 2013 issue of Smithsonian magazine includes 101 objects "that made America," from the Smithsonian's collection. Included on the list: Wonder Woman comics (1941).
Washington Times on Ms. Marvel being Muslim
Washington Times editorial
To sum up the paper's argument on Ms. Marvel being a teenage Muslim girl: "Marvel Comics insists
that it won’t evangelize for Islam, but the comic book industry promotes eerie
lifestyles."
To sum up the paper's argument on Ms. Marvel being a teenage Muslim girl: "Marvel Comics insists that it won’t evangelize for Islam, but the comic book industry promotes eerie lifestyles."
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Rep. Lewis' March on Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow | November 07, 2013
Civil rights history illustrated in new book
Congressman John Lewis and his co-authors of the bestselling graphic novel "March" talk with Rachel Maddow about telling the story of the civil rights movement.
Loya's Splotch Monster Island shop
Cartoonist/artist Steve Loya today launched his online Splotch Monster shop, dubbed Splotch Monster Island, is up and running. (Steve is the scheduled cover artist for Magic Bullet #8, coming out in spring 2014.)
Courtesy of Steve Loya
Saturday, November 09, 2013
Even more on The Post dropping Get Fuzzy
The unwelcome loss of 'Get Fuzzy'
Erin Lourie, Silver Spring
Anne Ritchie, Alexandria
Shelley Bond, Fairfax
Roger M. Allen, Takoma Park
Rachel Griffith, Washington
Greg Friedmann, Ashburn
Leonard Keifer, Gaithersburg
Washington Post November 9 2013
More 'Terrible' in the works
Scott Mills (writer) and Art Hondros (artist) are working on the second chapter of their online comic Terrible: Tsar Ivan IV, which is about Ivan the Terrible. Here is the first panel of the second chapter.
Courtesy of Scott Mills and Art Hondros
Dropping 'Get Fuzzy' continues to rattle around The Post
MAILBAG: What Post readers are saying about the 'Get Fuzzy' drop...
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog November 8 2013http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/mailbag-what-post-readers-are-saying-about-the-get-fuzzy-drop/2013/11/08/150a3f64-48ba-11e3-b6f8-3782ff6cb769_blog.html
Friday, November 08, 2013
Comic Riffs interviews Rich Stevens
Millennials & the Economy: The Nib's latest webcomic has all the answers in 6 easy steps [Q+A]
Eric Gordon's drawings from Cartoonists Draw Blood
Cartoonist Eric Gordon has posted a bunch of the cool portraits he did for folks who donated blood during the Cartoonist Draw Blood blood drive last weekend. Check out his blog.
Photo courtesy of Eric Gordon
D.C. Conspiracy meet up this Sunday
The D.C. Conspiracy, the local comics collaborative that publishes the comics newspaper Magic Bullet, is getting together this Sunday for few drinks and some drawing at Buffalo Billards at Dupont Circle at 5:30 pm-ish. All are welcome!
WaPo article on cartoonists' blood drive
By Bettina Lanyi
“Elizabeth Brewer was pleased with the sketch of
her dog — an ink-drawn caricature of the real thing, based on an iPhone photo
she showed cartoonist Jake Warrenfeltz. “I’m going to frame it,” she said, “and
hang it on the wall.”
Jacob Warrenfeltz draws a sketch.
Photo courtesy of Carolyn Belefski
NPR reviews Jeff Smith's 'RASL'
Noir Storytelling And Art Thievery In Living Color In 'RASL'
By Etelka Lehoczky
"Smith's dark tale of a dimension-jumping scientist, whose name is pronounced "razzle," is relayed in a jaggy style that couldn't be more different from that of the artist's Pogo-esque epic Bone."
By Etelka Lehoczky
"Smith's dark tale of a dimension-jumping scientist, whose name is pronounced "razzle," is relayed in a jaggy style that couldn't be more different from that of the artist's Pogo-esque epic Bone."
Thursday, November 07, 2013
Flugennock's "Carpetbagger Defeats Teabagger"
"Carpetbagger Defeats Teabagger!"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1404
A political analyst interviewed on The Daily Show late last week referred to the two major party candidates for Governor of Virginia as the worst candidates he'd ever seen, remarking that Virginia voters were being asked to choose between "cancer and a heart attack". That summed it up perfectly, if you ask me.
So it was that this past Tuesday, Virginians chose former Donkeycratic Party honcho and Clinton money man Terry McAwful -- uhh, MacAuliffe -- over Tea Party loon Ken Cuccinelli to occupy the Governor's mansion... not that it'd make any difference in the long run, except for those of you concerned only about your uteruses.
God, I hate democracy.
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Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Mike's Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org
Interviews with Rep. John Lewis and Jonathan Luna
Q&A with Rep. John Lewis on his graphic memoir 'March: Book One'
By SCOTT A. ROSENBERGamNewYork November 6 2013
http://www.amny.com/urbanite-1.812039/q-a-with-rep-john-lewis-on-his-graphic-memoir-march-book-one-1.6393781
http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3263725/exclusive-interview-jonathan-luna-and-sarah-vaughn-reprogram-science-fiction-with-alex-ada/
http://www.amny.com/urbanite-1.812039/q-a-with-rep-john-lewis-on-his-graphic-memoir-march-book-one-1.6393781
Jonathan Luna and Sarah Vaughn Talk Robots & Love In 'Alex + Ada'
Interview by – Big J and Jorge Solis
November 07, 2013http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3263725/exclusive-interview-jonathan-luna-and-sarah-vaughn-reprogram-science-fiction-with-alex-ada/
Comic Riffs on Marvel's new 'television' series
Marvel, Netflix reach deal for 4 new superhero series, including 'Daredevil,' 'Luke Cage'
Washington Post Comic Riffs blog November 7 2013http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/marvel-netflix-reach-deal-for-4-new-superhero-series-including-daredevil-luke-cage/2013/11/07/837650c4-47d3-11e3-a196-3544a03c2351_blog.html
Wednesday, November 06, 2013
Off-topic - Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
CBLDF: First Responder to Censorship
By Calvin Reid
Nov 01, 2013
| | | http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/59821-cbldf-first-responder-to-censorship.html I'm a member! |
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