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Leonard Rifas
Leonard Rifas (b. April 16, 1951) is an American cartoonist, critic, editor, and publisher associated with underground comix, comics journalism, left-wing politics, and the anti-nuclear movement. He is notable for his contributions to the form of minicomics as well as publishing Japanese manga in the United States. Rifas' publishing company, EduComics, operated most actively from 1976 to 1982. Rifas has written a number of scholarly articles in various journals, on such topics as "the anti-comics movement of the 1950s, the underground comix movement, representations of race, and Korean War comic books."nn">"An Army of Principles # nn/nowiki>_(1976),_Kitchen_Sink_Press,_1976_Series,"">/nowiki>nn">"An_Army_of_Principles_#[nn/nowiki>_(1976),_Kitchen_Sink_Press,_1976_Series,"Grand_Comics_Database._Retrieved_Jan._4,_2023._The_36-page_comic_was_mostly_drawn_and_entirely_inked_by_Rifas,_with_some_penciling_assists_by_others. Next,_Rifas_spearheaded_the_anthology_series_''Corporate_Cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cartoonist
A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and graphic components of the work as part of their practice. Cartoonists may work in a variety of formats, including booklets, comic strips, comic books, editorial cartoons, graphic novels, User guide, manuals, gag cartoons, storyboards, posters, shirts, books, advertisements, greeting cards, magazines, newspapers, webcomics, and video game packaging. Terminology Cartoonists may also be denoted by terms such as comics artist, comic book artist, graphic novel artist or graphic novelist. Ambiguity may arise because "comic book artist" may also refer to the person who only illustrates the comic, and "graphic novelist" may also refer to the person who only writes the script. History The English satire, satirist and editorial cartoonist Willi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuclear Energy Policy
Nuclear energy policy is a national and international policy concerning some or all aspects of nuclear energy and the nuclear fuel cycle, such as uranium mining, ore concentration, conversion, enrichment for nuclear fuel, generating electricity by nuclear power, storing and reprocessing spent nuclear fuel, and disposal of radioactive waste. Nuclear energy policies often include the regulation of energy use and standards relating to the nuclear fuel cycle. Other measures include efficiency standards, safety regulations, emission standards, fiscal policies, and legislation on energy trading, transport of nuclear waste and contaminated materials, and their storage. Governments might subsidize nuclear energy and arrange international treaties and trade agreements about the import and export of nuclear technology, electricity, nuclear waste, and uranium. Since about 2001 the term nuclear renaissance has been used to refer to a possible nuclear power industry revival, but nuclea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Kitchen
Denis Kitchen (born August 27, 1946) is an Americans, American underground comix, underground cartoonist, publisher, author, agent, and the founder of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Early life Kitchen grew up in Wisconsin, attending William Horlick High School, Racine, Wisconsin, Racine, where he cofounded and edited ''Klepto'', an unofficial school paper, also contributing stories and illustrations to the paper. He continued this interest at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where in 1967 he cofounded and served as art director for the humor magazine ''Snide'', also supplying cartoons. He also provided cartoons for the ''UWM Post''. Originally a member of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, ROTC on campus, Kitchen left ROTC, a decision he later attributed to an allergy to the wool uniform pants ("...had the pants been made out of cotton, I might be a lieutenant colonel today," he later said). He took classes in journalism and started frequenting a local coffeehouse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Kinney
Jay Kinney (born 1950) is an American author, editor, and former underground cartoonist. Kinney has been noted for "adding new dimensions to the political comic" in the underground comix press of the 1970s and '80s. Kinney was a member, along with Skip Williamson, Jay Lynch and R. Crumb, of the original ''Bijou Funnies'' crew. ''Bijou Funnies'' was heavily influenced by '' Mad'' magazine, and, along with ''Zap Comix'', is considered one of the titles to launch the underground comix movement.Fox, M. Steven"Bijou Funnies,"ComixJoint. Accessed Oct. 21, 2016. Kinney contributed to the first four issues (1968–1970), as well as the eighth and final issue (1973). Next, Kinney and Bill Griffith co-edited '' Young Lust'', an underground comix anthology published sporadically from 1970 to 1993. The title, which parodied 1950s romance comics such as '' Young Love'', was noted for its explicit depictions of sex. Unlike many other sex-fueled underground comix, ''Young Lust'' was generally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Green (cartoonist)
Justin Considine Green (July 25, 1945 – April 23, 2022)Justin Green bio , Iconoclast Editions website. Accessed Dec. 14, 2013. was an American cartoonist who is known as the "father of autobiography, autobiographical comics." A key figure and pioneer in the 1970s generation of underground comics artists, he is best known for his 1972 comic book ''Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary''. Biography Green was born in Boston, Massachusetts, but grew up in Chicago, Illinois, the son of a Jewish father and Catholic mother; he was raised Catholic. As a child he at first attended a Catholic parochial school, and later transferred to a school where most students were Jews. He rejected the Catholic faith in 1958 as he believed it caused him "Scrupulosity, compulsive neurosis" t ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Deitch
Kim Deitch (born May 21, 1944 in Los Angeles, California)Donahue, Don and Susan Goodrick, editors. Deitch bio, ''The Apex Treasuet of Underground Comics'' (Apex Novelties, 1974), p. 127. is an American cartoonist who was an important figure in the underground comix movement of the 1960s, remaining active in the decades that followed with a variety of books and comics, sometimes using the pseudonym Fowlton Means. Much of Kim Deitch's work deals with the animation industry and characters from the world of cartoons.Kim Deitch at the Lambiek Comiclopedia. Retrieved on November 12, 2013 Archived [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Colwell
Guy Colwell (born March 28, 1945) is an American painter and occasional underground cartoonist. Although not African-American himself, Colwell's comics often portray blacks in strong roles in stories of life on the streets. His " Figurative Social Surrealist" paintings reflect on the human condition, economic inequality, injustice, and alienation from the natural world. Biography Guy Colwell was on born March 28, 1945, in Oakland, California. Colwell studied art at the California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts). After completing two years there, he dropped out to travel and get some life and work experience. When he had worked an almost two-year stint as a sculptor for Mattel, and was preparing his return to college. He was arrested for draft refusal and sentenced to two years in federal prison at McNeil Island Corrections Center, in Washington state. His experiences there and the period after his release were the genesis of his underground com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Driggs
Harry Driggs (November 3, 1935 — July 14, 2007) was an American artist, graphic designer, political activist, and underground cartoonist. Much of his comix work was published under the name R. Diggs. Driggs was a longtime resident of San Francisco, where he worked in advertising as a graphic designer and art director. Career In June 1967 (during the so-called Summer of Love), Driggs created and self-published the pioneering underground comic ''The Life and Loves of Cleopatra'', an obscene 28-page narrative inspired by the Elizabeth Taylor film ''Cleopatra'', and which featured artwork that today would be seen as child pornography.Fox, M. Steven"The Life and Loves of Cleopatra,"ComixJoint (2013). Retrieved Dec. 9, 2022. The San Francisco Diggers gave away the comic in their Free Store at the corner of Cole and Carl in Haight-Ashbury. By this time, Driggs had left for New York City, where he joined the staff of the radical newspaper the ''National Guardian''. When he returned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trina Robbins
Trina Robbins (born Trina Perlson; August 17, 1938, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American cartoonist. She was an early participant in the underground comix movement, and one of the first female artists in that movement. In the 1980s, Robbins became the first woman to draw ''Wonder Woman'' comics. She is a member of the Will Eisner Hall of Fame. Career Early work Robbins was an active member of science fiction fandom in the 1950s and 1960s. Her illustrations appeared in science fiction fanzines like the Hugo-nominated ''Habakkuk''. Comics Robbins' first comics were printed in the ''East Village Other''; she also contributed to the spin-off underground comic ''Gothic Blimp Works''. In 1969, Robbins designed the costume for the Warren Publishing character Vampirella for artist Frank Frazetta in ''Vampirella'' #1 (Sept. 1969). She left New York for San Francisco in 1970, where she worked at the feminist underground newspaper ''It Ain't Me, Babe''. The same year, she and fell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Irons
Greg Irons (September 29, 1947 – November 14, 1984) was an American poster artist, underground cartoonist, animator and tattoo artist. Profile Irons was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He moved to San Francisco, California, in 1967, where he soon found work designing posters for Bill Graham at The Fillmore Auditorium. He worked on the film '' Yellow Submarine'', then returned to work for Graham Productions. He soon branched out into album covers and "comix" work for the Print Mint, Last Gasp ''Eco-Funnies'', and other local underground publishers. Irons' collaborations with writer Tom Veitch in the early 1970s (the creative team was known as "GI/TV") included ''Deviant Slice Funnies'', ''Legion of Charlies''. Other contributions to underground comics included ''Skull Comix'' and ''Slow Death''. A solo comic entitled ''Light Comitragies'' was published in June 1971 by the Print Mint. In the mid-1970s he began book illustration work, mainly for Bellerophon Books. One of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comics Journalism
Comics journalism is a form of journalism that covers news or nonfiction events using the framework of comics, a combination of words and drawn images. Typically, sources are actual people featured in each story, and word balloons are actual quotes. The term "comics journalism" was coined by one of its most notable practitioners, Joe Sacco. Other terms for the practice include "graphic journalism,"Hodara, Susan"Graphic Journalism,"''Communication Arts'' (March 2020). "comic strip journalism", "cartoon journalism", "cartoon reporting", "comics reportage",Cavna, Michael"COMICS: Meet the man who’s creating a space for longform journalism — in graphic novel form,"''Washington Post'' (September 16, 2016). "journalistic comics", and "sketchbook reports".McGee, Kathleen"SPIEGELMAN SPEAKS: Art Spiegelman is the author of Maus for which he won a special Pulitzer in 1992. Kathleen McGee interviewed him when he visited Minneapolis in 1998,"''Conduit'' (1998). Visual narrative storytelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Bicentennial
The United States Bicentennial was a series of celebrations and observances during the mid-1970s that paid tribute to historical events leading up to the creation of the United States of America as an independent republic. It was a central event in the memory of the American Revolution. The Bicentennial culminated on Sunday, July 4, 1976, with the 200th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the Founding Father delegates of the Second Continental Congress. Background The nation had always commemorated the Founding as a gesture of patriotism and sometimes as an argument in political battles. Historian Jonathan Crider points out that in the 1850s, editors and orators both North and South claimed their region was the true custodian of the legacy of 1776, as they used the Revolution symbolically in their rhetoric. The plans for the Bicentennial began when Congress created the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission on July 4, 1966. Initially, the Bicen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
