Peer and Hilde are hungry for adventure, so when a Viking longship arrives in their village looking for crew, they decide to set sail for Vinland far across the perilous sea - a place inhabited by Skraelings, a mysterious race of people with dark skin, long black hair and painted faces. But are the ship's captain and his sword-wielding son really honest sailors? Is the ship haunted? What creatures lurk in the shadows and forests of the new land? And will Peer and Hilde ever return?
The Native American Indians you will meet in 'Troll Blood' are based on the Mi'kmaq people of New Brunswick, Canada, who have a rich heritage of amazing stories and traditions. I spent many months researching these, and listed my sources in the American edition. Whenever possible I used 'primary' sources: the earliest attributed versions of tales and customs. I am indebted to Dr Ruth Holmes Whitehead, an authority on Mi'kmaq culture, who read the manuscript, and whose book 'Stories from the Six Worlds' (Nimbus Publishing, 1988) is a brilliant collection.
Here is a tale about the jenu, the terrifying ice-giant.
A man, with his wife and child, had pitched camp far off in the north-west woods, intending to spend the winter hunting, fishing and trapping. At first all went well, and he brought back plenty of game, which his wife sliced, cured and dried. Then one day while the hunter was out, the woman heard something come crashing through the woods. She looked out and to her horror saw an enormous, gaunt, wild-looking man, naked except for a pack on his back, his hair long and tangled, his lips raw and bleeding where he had hungrily bitten his own flesh. She knew at once it was a jenu, who would eat her and her little son – unless she could trick him.
The hunter fell in with the plan. He strolled into the wigwam and greeted the jenu most politely, begging him to stay for as long as he liked. "These must really be my relatives," thought the jenu. He stayed for weeks, even helping the man to hunt. The woman made him clothes. She cooked for him every day, and one morning he told her to throw away the pack he had brought with him. She peeked in before she did so, and saw with horror a pair of human hands and feet – the remains of the jenu's last meal. By springtime, the jenu's raw lips had healed. One day, sitting beside the fire, he began to cough. He coughed and he coughed, until he coughed up a big piece of ice shaped like a little human figure. It was the jenu's frozen heart. The ice melted in the heat of the fire and the jenu was a jenu no longer, but a real human being. He had been tamed – by kindness.


ooh what a contradictory mess. bjm + fart + bandwagon + idiot wine + corck + bagawan at 6 to midnight. what about the water pissstol?
i think there is a sort of revolution about to happen. I always think this. bulle and pull the titoff. methodrone strange juxtposition.
i refuse to agree that i am mad. the whole entire rest of the world = yes. me = no. this is the jewel attained through advaita. the subjunctive drowns all of it in insubstantial essenses.
so i suppose you are some lonely thing out there one century from now. well, welcome to my reality. I am pleased to see that civilisation has preserved a few bits over the intervening aeon. if not, then i am just reading myself again, sad reality of mine. this loneliness might realise something useful one day.
wine and destruction. i am the roman empire..
was thinking about a new hierarchy the other day. A sort of world government that had an aescetic nature which governed the planet, preserved the human race like a sort of zoo exhibit. I wrote about it already in the SUM part of the unwashed SIN SUM SON trilogy. Its representatives the 'internationals' forgo allegiance to any brand or nation and renounce wealth (i suppose) to .. oh but already it sounds hackneyed.
like the breakup of el38 or even moreso ef86s.. things are nicer when they are ruined. don't we all want to know what occurred in the dark ages?
one redeeming thing i managed to do tonight was find and spontaneously purchase a copy of David Godman's new translation of Sorupa Saram. I eagerly await this arriving in the post. Parcels from India are such enigmatic things, wrapped in different papers and bearing strange postmarks, I hardly ever want to unwrap them.


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A visitation for Onetia "Nita" Wiest, a 42-year resident of Carson City, will be from noon- 4 p.m. Tuesday at Walton's Chapel of the Valley.
Mrs. Wiest died July 10, 2002, at the Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Smyrna, Tenn., where she had lived for the past year. She was 77.
She was born Sept. 12, 1924, in Missouri to Louis Elmer and Nina Brown Bingaman.
She worked for the Nevada Department of Transportation and enjoyed reading and sewing.
In 1946 she married William Wiest in Whittier, Calif. He preceded her in death in August 1985 in Carson City.
Prior to living in Carson City, she lived in Whittier, Calif.
She is survived by sons William F. III of Smyrna, Tenn., Bob Wiest of Cookeville, Tenn., and Jerry Wiest of Carson City; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be followed by a private graveside service at Rose Hills Cemetery in Whittier.


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Opening of new facility at the TRC heralds testing of autonomous technology
The other part of the facility is the outdoor six-lane configurable intersection
by: Jason Aubry
Posted: Jul 10, 2019 / 07:48 PM EDT / Updated: Jul 10, 2019 / 10:44 PM EDT
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WKBN) – The robot rolls forward at a relatively slow speed into the intersection, programmed to ignore the red light and right into the path of an oncoming car.
The car's low-level autonomy kicks in and the driver is assisted in avoiding a crash with the robot, which is surrounded by padding so that it has the appearance of a vehicle.
Back in the control room the entire scenario is monitored.
This is a small part of what can be done at the new TRC Smart Center.
The building housing the control center also has bays for outfitting test vehicles with equipment, some of which was on display at Wednesday's ribbon cutting ceremony celebrating the official opening of the facility.
The other part of the facility is the outdoor six-lane configurable intersection, complete with sensors in the pavement as well as lidar, radar, cameras and 5G capability to facilitate communication to and from the test vehicles.
It was about a year ago to the day ground was broken on the site. Then Governor John Kasich was present to launch the program.
Kasich was not there Wednesday. Instead, Lt. Governor Jon Husted made remarks before the ribbon was cut.
"There's going to be some amazing innovations that will go on here that will affect the lives of everybody in the world," said Husted.
After the speeches and the thank yous were shared, a demonstration was held; the same one as described above.
It was over in a flash and if you didn't know what to look for, you might have missed it in a blink of an eye.
That's how fast something can happen on the roads, and why human error is often cited as the cause of accidents.
State leaders want to reduce the number of those accidents and are looking to machines to protect us seemingly from ourselves.
"What happens here, literally will save people's lives and will affect everybody in the world because the driving technologies that will be on you showroom floor in the form of an automobile are going to be tested right here," said Husted.
They will also be tested in the roads and at the intersections where we drive.
Director of the Ohio Department of Transportation Jack Marchbanks was also on hand Wednesday.
"It is quite impressive and what I can say as someone who's been around transportation for over two decades, that the future is finally here," said Marchbanks.
The sensors in the pavement that are being used in testing, and the other technologies the facility is using are all tried and tested.
Dean of Engineering for the Ohio State University, and Chairman of the TRC Board, David B. Williams says that is intentional because what they use here must be compatible with what is commercially available to deploy in the real world.
Still, the roadways are not ready for autonomous vehicles, though not for a lack of advancement in the field.
"There's so much politics and policy and law and insurance involved in the development of smart technology and higher-level autonomous vehicles, that it's not the technology that's limiting us in deploying it on our roads. It is those particular issues that I mentioned," said Williams.
Despite this, Williams says the U.S. is not falling behind other countries who already allow higher levels of autonomous vehicles on their roads.
Still, there is a sense of inevitability with autonomous vehicles that is putting pressure on both federal and state lawmakers to begin developing guidelines and rules to take advantage of potential efficiencies.
Some lawmakers are open to exploring the possibilities, like State Senator Stephanie Kunze.
"We obviously are putting the safety of our constituents and our citizens and our communities first and foremost. But I also think that that doesn't mean that we just say, 'No' to everything that comes along," said Kunze.
According to Williams, some of the first testing that could be undertaken at the new facility involved self-driving shipping trucks.
He described a scenario in which they could have a group of trucks get up to 60 miles per hour and then put a red light in front of them to see how they would react as a group.
Williams says understanding how large self-driving vehicles respond to sudden changes will be crucial before they attempt to deploy new technology on the connected corridor just outside the TRC on US 33.
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MAUMEE, Ohio (AP) — A federal agency fined an Ohio-based grain handling company over alleged safety violations that led to the deaths of two employees last year.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined The Andersons Inc. nearly $292,000 for grain handling, and walking and working surfaces violations in the July 19 accident, the Toledo Blade reported.
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COLUMBUS, OH (WCMH) -- A Columbus Freeway Patrol officer had to call for backup after he was bit by a coyote on the east side.
According to the Columbus Police Department, the officer was checking on a stranded motorist on the exit ramp from I-70 to Hamilton Road around 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
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Adventure description from front page "The town of Hardby was in complete disarray when you arrived. The Law Courts were broken into and the accused whisked away by a giant man of stone. The tracks should be easy enough to follow - but who would want to spirit away a mere bookkeeper? An adventure for APLs 6 through 10."


Olivia Worlton's teacher at Rochester Arts & Sciences Academy gave her class an assignment: Pick a hero, learn about him or her, and then present what you've learned to the class. While most of Olivia's fellow first-graders picked historical figures or their parents (aww), Olivia had someone else in mind. She chose William Shaughnessy, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon at Mayo Clinic's Rochester campus.
That decision didn't surprise her parents. "He changed her life," says Olivia's mom, Heather Worlton. But it did surprise Dr. Shaughnessy. "First graders have lots of heroes to choose from," Dr. Shaughnessy notes, including teachers, police officers, fire fighters and military personnel. "I was honored and humbled that she would think an orthopedic surgeon was in that same mix," he tells us. But to Olivia, the choice was obvious. "He is very smart and helped me so I was not in pain, so he is my hero!" she wrote in her report. Read the rest of Olivia's story.


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Some of Colorado's Forests Still Closed Due to Cameron Peak Fire
Shelby Published: February 19, 2021
Matt Schilz/TSM
Even months after the Cameron Peak Fire's full containment, some of Colorado's forests are still closed to the public. However some areas reopened this week, the U.S. Forest Service said in a release on February 19.
The Cameron Peak Fire, Colorado's largest wildfire in history, burned over 200,000 acres between August 13, 2020, and December 2, 2020. The 111-day wildfire destroyed hundreds of structures, including homes and historic sites, in addition to charring hundreds of thousands of acres of forest in Colorado, much of which was used for recreation purposes by Coloradans and tourists alike.
The forest damage was so severe that even over two months since Cameron Peak Fire's full containment, the U.S. Forest Service is still slowly reopening access to the public in recreational areas near Fort Collins.
'The Canyon Lakes Ranger District of the Roosevelt National Forest is happy to announce a few more areas impacted by the Cameron Peak Fire have reopened for winter recreation,' the U.S. Forest Service said. 'Newly opened areas include the Lower Dadd Gulch Trail, Chambers Lake and Access Road, Long Draw Road, Long Draw Reservoir, the Neota Wilderness and the Joe Wright Ski Trail.'
However, the U.S. Forest Service also said that 'most areas impacted by the fire remain closed for safety and natural resource protection.' Bridge infrastructure and safety signs have been damaged, making some areas unsafe to access. You can see a map of closed areas here.
Some areas, the U.S. Forest Service said, won't even be accessible for evaluation until the snow melts, which could be some time. You can read the full release here.
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Rosalind Kurita steps down from interim state Senate seat
Fellow senators praised Kurita's work during her time filling in with District 22.
Rosalind Kurita steps down from interim state Senate seat Fellow senators praised Kurita's work during her time filling in with District 22. Check out this story on theleafchronicle.com: https://www.theleafchronicle.com/story/news/local/clarksville/2019/04/24/rosalind-kurita-steps-down-interim-state-senate-seat/3556377002/
The Leaf-Chronicle Published 9:02 a.m. CT April 24, 2019
Rosalind Kurita (Photo: Theresa Montgomery, State of Tennessee Photographic Services)
With a new state senator elected for District 22 on Tuesday, state Sen. Rosalind Kurita, I-Clarksville, was honored by the Tennessee General Assembly on Monday for representing Montgomery, Stewart and Houston counties as interim.
Kurita, who previously served in the Senate from 1996 to 2008, was appointed by the Montgomery County Commission in January to fill the unexpired term of U.S. Rep. Mark Green until the special election could be held.
Republican Bill Powers won the seat Tuesday in a special election.
"Rosalind Kurita's record of service in the Senate has been exemplary," said Lt. Gov. Randy McNally in a news release. "From her first 12 years to the last few months, she has been a pleasure to work with and a fighter for her constituents. I appreciate greatly her service to the state of Tennessee and wish her well in the future."
Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson, R-Franklin, commended Kurita for stepping up to the task the helm quickly upon her appointment, providing practical and informed perspectives on healthcare issues and other key matters.
"Senator Kurita is smart. She is dedicated, works hard and fights fiercely for her constituents and issues that she is passionate about," Johnson said.
Among legislation sponsored by Kurita this year was a proposal to create a mechanism that will help Montgomery County build an event center using captured sales tax revenue.
Kurita worked with her Montgomery County colleagues to move the bill through the General Assembly. The measure has passed the Senate and awaits approval in the House Finance, Ways and Means Committee.
"I very much appreciate the opportunity to serve my fellow citizens in this capacity," said Kurita said.
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Sea Breeze exercise underway in the Black Sea with Ukraine, NATO allies
By: The Associated Press July 2
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64) prepares to go underway in the Black Sea on July 2 during exercise Sea Breeze 2019 in Odesa, Ukraine. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class T. Logan Keown/Navy)
MOSCOW — About 3,000 troops from 19 countries are taking part in military drills in the Black Sea, an exercise that has raised concerns in Russia.
The 12-day Sea Breeze 2019 exercise, involving Ukraine, the U.S., a dozen other NATO allies and a few other nations, began Monday in the northwestern part of the Black Sea. It will involve 32 warships and 24 aircraft.
Why Russia is swallowing the Black Sea and won't stop until it has 'choked out Ukraine'
It's not going to happen in the next six months, said retired Army Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges. But Russia's aim is to own the Black Sea and isolate Ukraine.
By: Kyle Rempfer
The Russian military says it is monitoring the exercise.
Relations between Russia and the West have plummeted to post-Cold War lows in the wake of Moscow's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula and support for pro-Russian insurgents in eastern Ukraine.
The US Navy is back in the Black Sea, sending a message to Moscow
It's the first U.S. warship to enter the Black Sea since the Russians seized three Ukrainian boats in the Kerch Strait in November.
By: Mark D. Faram
Moscow has voiced concern about previous NATO's drills near its borders, saying they threaten its security, while NATO allies have expressed worries about Russian military maneuvers.


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Sisqo of Dru Hill Releases New Solo EP "Genesis" (Stream)
Nov 28, 2019 | Albums, New Music
While we continue to wait on a long anticipated project from his group Dru Hill, lead singer Sisqo returns with a new EP called "Genesis".
The project is actually in celebration of the singer's debut album "Unleash the Dragon" which released nearly 20 years ago to this day.
There is something for everyone on the four song EP "Gensis". A couple of the songs stray more towards the trendier lane like we've heard on his previous solo album, while some of the tracks are of a more traditional flavor.
The good news is that in his statement to his fans announcing the album, Sisqo also did mention that new Dru Hill music is on the way as well. Stay tuned, and check out "Genesis" in the meantime!
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Stacey Rouse	on December 3, 2019 at 7:02 pm
The whole CDwas awesome I love this CD some of the song are the same but some what of a difference im guessing if u love the Dragon Sisqo as I do I'm just more Happy the dragon is still laying it down. But lol yeah my mouth dropping on bend Down That CD is Hot I guess because they really let Dragon release that Dragon on that note I love it.looking forward for sisqo be that Dragon thank you sisqobaby you're so awesome xoxoxo


The concern appears quixotic, but China is now in the grips of a moral crisis. In recent months, the Chinese Internet has been full of talk about the lack of morality in society. And the problem is not just associated with the very rich or the political connected—concerns shared in western countries—but with the population at large. This has been precipitated in part by a spate of recent incidents in which people have failed to come to aid of fellow citizens caught in accidents or medical emergencies. A few weeks ago, a two-year-old girl in Guangzhou was hit by a car and left dying in the street while eighteen passers-by did nothing to help her. The case riveted China, causing people to ask what sort of society is being created.
So, no sooner was the plenum over than the party indicated that it would limit the amount of entertainment shows on television and possibly set limits on popular microblogs. While it is easy to read this move simply as censorship, which it certainly is, it also reflects the new preoccupation with morality: many of the banned shows are pure entertainment—the party now wants more news programs—and Chinese microblogs have long been a forum for anonymous character assassination. Meanwhile, though it has been far less noted, Beijing is giving new support to religion—even the country's own beleaguered traditional practice, Daoism.
After decades of destruction, Daoist temples are being rebuilt, often with government support. Shortly after the plenum ended, authorities were convening an International Daoism Forum. The meeting was held near Mt. Heng in Hunan Province, one of Daoism's five holy mountains, and was attended by 500 participants. It received extensive play in the Chinese media, with a noted British Daoist scholar, Martin Palmer, getting airtime on Chinese television. This is a sharp change for a religion that that was persecuted under Mao and long regarded as suspect. What, exactly, is gong on here?
Daoism (sometimes spelled Taoism) began as a philosophical tradition in early China. Its most famous work is the Daodejing, attributed to a person known as Laozi, who may have existed in the 6th century BCE. It developed into an organized religion by the 2nd century CE. Although its practices vary widely, it generally advocates self-discipline and good living as a way to attain immortality, as well as elaborate rituals to purge individuals or communities of evil. Its ideas of harmony with nature underlie many aspects of Chinese culture, from calligraphy and painting to architecture and medicine. For generations, its formal teachings were passed down by Daoist priests as well as lay practitioners.
During the Mao years many of its traditions, such as fortune telling, geomancy, possession by spirits, and popular rituals, were banned as superstitious. But it's been making a limited comeback. Although still dwarfed by Buddhism, as well as newer religions, like Christianity, the number of Daoist temples has at least tripled over the past fifteen years, according to official figures. Priests and nuns who run the temples provide services to pilgrims and go out into the community to consecrate homes or businesses, and perform funerals. Others spread Daoist ideas through martial arts, such as Tai Chi, or medicine—two disciplines rooted in Daoism.
One reason authorities are now embracing Daoism as a source of moral guidance is that, in contrast to Christianity—which sometimes runs afoul of authorities—Daoism is widely seen as an unthreatening, indigenous religion. That's true of Buddhism as well, which was founded in today's India but took root in China 2,000 years ago. But Buddhism has long had a cadre of devoted, missionizing monks and nuns who try to spread the word, whereas Daoism is sometimes hard to crack—you often have to earn a Daoist master's trust and respect before he or she will take you on as a disciple. Moreover there's no Daoist Gideons International, dropping the Daodejing in Chinese hotels. And then, of course, Daoism can be seen as the original tune-in-turn-on-drop-out religion; many Daoist luminaries have preferred a life of contemplation to pursuit of earthly power.
Another part of Daoism that isn't so easy for the government to swallow is that it has become a world religion, one that a government can't easily control. Four months ago, for example, a very different international conference on Daoism had been held at exactly the same location—a conference that the government was far from excited about. Organized by Chinese and international scholars and practitioners, the conference did not have as much high-level support but it reflects something potentially more powerful: an explosion of popular interest into Daoism and Chinese religion. The authorities not only shunned it but put up roadblocks. It was almost canceled at the last moment and was eventually curtailed from five to three days, with many panels cut or abbreviated.
I attended that conference, which focused on the role of women in Daoism, commercialism of its temples and other issues facing the religion, and observed the discomfort of Chinese officials as the organizers announced that next year's conference was going to be held at a German lakeside resort. One official later said to me that it should be up to the Chinese government, not a non-government organization of scholars, to determine when an important Daoist conference should be held. He was also skeptical of many of those who came, some of whom were practicing Daoists or martial artists—who were these people? Many weren't even Chinese!
Tellingly, none of the participants from June—and very few foreign scholars save Mr. Palmer—took part in the recent government-sponsored conference. It wasn't posted on scholarly websites and was treated by Beijing as something that didn't really concern the outside world.
But the more China's leaders try to use religion for their own purposes, the more difficult it may be to have an actual effect on perceived problems like society's moral decline. Despite the rebuilding of temples, religious life is still tightly limited. Many practitioners do find a deeper moral answer in the teachings of Daoism and other religions. I have seen volunteers at Daoist temples provide food for the poor or engage in disaster relief. The teachings of compassion and unity with nature also make sense in a country that has pursued economic gain at the expense of charity and concern for the environment.


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Imperfect Tenderness
BY Tim Hodler Jan 12, 2015	4 Comments
"Satire, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness." —Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
First, go here, and watch a short five-minute documentary. It captures the February 2006 editorial meeting at which the editors of Charlie Hebdo decided whether or not to put an image of Muhammad on their next issue's cover. Some of the people you will see in that video were murdered last week.
They are remembered in this interview by their friend Nicolas Demorand, the former editor of Libération, the leftist French newspaper who lent the Charlie Hebdo staff office space after the magazine was fire-bombed in 2011. (Libération is lending CH office space again right now, in order to allow the magazine to release a new issue on January 14. They reportedly plan to print one million copies.) Here is Demorand, remembering 2011:
Charb [Charlie Hebdo editorial director Stéphane Charbonnier], who was killed today, was under police protection. It was a really strange moment. A newspaper isn't a military place. We had policemen in the newsroom during that time. In the first few hours we were quite scared. But after that it was really normal life. Everybody was laughing. These guys were the kindest guys. They were really teenagers. Even if they were 70 or 80 years old. They were teens. They were happy to live. They were just doing funny stuff. And it's horrible to think that they have all been killed today. You know, I'm 43. I cried like a child all day long. It was a horrible day. A horrible day in Paris. Horrible day.
Now read this interview with surviving Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Luz, who is also very good at expressing the human side of this tragedy: "The media made a mountain out of our cartoons, when on a worldwide scale, we are merely a damn teenage fanzine. This fanzine has become a national and international symbol, but it was people that were assassinated, not the freedom of speech! People who sat in an office and drew cartoons."
Many cartoonists have reacted to the attack, too many to gather here. Some of the more notable responses come in the form of an ambivalent strip on Charlie's satire created by Joe Sacco, a short video interview with the British political cartoonist Steve Bell, and this drawing by Robert Crumb. Crumb explained the reasoning behind his cartoon in an interview with the New York Observer:
I showed it to [my wife Aline], and she said, "Oh, my God, we're going to have to go into hiding." [Laughs.] So, then Aline had this idea for another cartoon, which we also sent to Libération, a collaboration, that's showing her looking at the drawing saying, "Oh, my God, they're going to come after us! This is terrible…I want to live to see my grandchildren!" And then she has me saying, "Well, it's not that bad. And, besides, they've killed enough cartoonists, maybe they've gotten it out of their system."
Matt Madden, who currently lives in Angoulême, wrote a moving blog post.
Less impressive and less subtle was this drawing released by Asterix co-creator Albert Uderzo.
So why did the attack happen? Much important historical context can be found in this magazine's 2006 article, "Cartoons of Mass Destruction", an in-depth report written by Michael Dean and R.C. Harvey on the Danish cartoon controversy of that year, which not only fills in many of the historical blanks, but also provides a multitude of perspectives worth considering. It is fascinating to see how much has changed in just nine years, and how much remains the same. (Note that Jyllands-Posten, the Danish paper at the height of the original controversy, and Charlie Hebdo are very different in terms of editorial approach.)
[Matthias] Wivel was not impressed with the [Danish] cartoons. "With the exception of three or four of them, I think they are rather inferior cartoons," he said. "The take on Islamism is pretty hackneyed, the jokes are largely quite stupid, and most of them are badly and uninspiringly drawn."
"I think Jyllands-Posten were inconsiderate and boorish in publishing these cartoons as a single, unified, insulting statement, but am not sure the cartoonists themselves can be accused of anything else than trying their best to exercise their métier within the often rather limited scope of their talent."
Wivel saw the cartoons as an attempt to inflame the anti-immigration sentiments simmering in Danish politics. "It should be stressed here that the decision by Jyllands-Posten to publish these cartoons more than likely was motivated by the political climate of Denmark, where Muslims are constantly the object of negative discourse, where immigration laws have developed to become the most draconian of the [European Union] and where there's a lot of popular support for the kind of hard-line thinking that has prompted this development. It was an asinine, cheap shot at an already marginalized minority. Preaching to the choir, in other words. What no one could have foreseen was the extent to which globalization has changed the way these things work."
Also back in 2011, The Nation interviewed Art Spiegelman and Joe Sacco about the Danish cartoons. These are two highly intelligent artists sophisticated in both politics and satire, and they don't quite see eye to eye on these issues. It too is worth returning to. (As Dan mentioned last week, Art Spiegelman also recently discussed satire and Charlie Hebdo on Democracy Now.)
As almost all readers surely know, in the wake of last week's attack a widespread campaign was launched, promoting unified mourning and identification with Charlie Hebdo, and according to reports, #JeSuisCharlie quickly became one of the most popular global Twitter hashtags ever. Some, uneasy with the offensive imagery used in many CH cartoons, have been keen to distance themselves from the magazine. Satire presents some of the thorniest political issues it is possible for an artist to depict or confront, which is both its attraction and its danger. It is almost impossible to evaluate satire outside of the very specific context of the events or figures it is targeting, especially by those who share neither the language nor the cultural background of the artists. And so for those who lack that language and/or background, it may be helpful to try to get a fix on what the CH artists were attempting to do, and how they were attempting to do it, before one ultimately decides to celebrate or condemn their work.
Now, before I go on, let me add that I myself am not an expert on the political culture of France, and do not myself claim that the cartoons were well-executed satire. I am going to link to a few people below who do make that claim, but I myself know very little of the contexts in question. In fact, I have only ever read one issue of Charlie Hebdo, over a decade ago. My French is so rudimentary that saying I "read" it is probably overstating things. This took place before 2006, so I had no preconceptions. I thought some of the cartoons were funny, and some crude and vulgar. There were no racial caricatures that I can recall, but it's been a long time. I didn't get most of the jokes in any case. In its informality and personal nature, it reminded me somewhat of a zine, an alternative weekly from back before the alternative press was neutered, or a group blog. In any case, I say all this to make it clear that I am only going to make claims about satire in general, as I believe myself unqualified to judge the Charlie Hebdo cartoons myself at this time. And none of this is meant to imply that the cartoons should not be criticized. If anything, satire, which when accomplished trades in quite subtle ideas, benefits from and requires criticism more than most kinds of art.
Satire is an unusual art form, in that it is designed to be misunderstood. If you respond to it with horror or disgust, that was likely the artist's goal. The satirist attempts to mimic the view of his or her enemy, often using the same kind of language and imagery as that opponent would, but doing so ironically, and taking it so far into the absurd that the entire moral basis for the enemy's position collapses. I think the way the philosopher Robert Paul Wolff explains irony may be helpful:
Irony is a mode of discourse that presupposes a double audience -- an apparent audience and a real audience. [...] When a statement is uttered ironically, the speaker intends to convey two meanings that are related as appearance to reality. The apparent meaning is heard by the first, or apparent, audience, which mistakenly thinks that it has understood everything that the speaker means to communicate. The deeper, real, meaning is heard by the real audience, which also hears and understands the apparent meaning. The real audience also knows that the apparent audience exists, and has heard only the apparent meaning, which it has mistaken for the real meaning. Thus, one might say, the ironic utterance is a private joke between the speaker and the real audience at the expense of the apparent audience. It is this complex structure of the communicative situation that distinguishes irony from ambiguity or mere confusion. [All emphases Wolff's.]
The classic example of satire, the one everybody knows, is Jonathan Swift's "Modest Proposal", in which the English social engineer's faith in mechanistic solutions to Irish poverty are ultimately shown to be monstrously anti-human. Swift eventually takes the premises so far that the essay's apparent meaning (that the children of the poor should be served as food to relieve hunger and suffering) eventually gives way to its real meaning. When an Anglophone reader unfamiliar with the original French political context reads the Charlie Hebdo cartoons, only their apparent meaning can be seen.
The odd thing about satire is that, in one sense, it sometimes works even when it is not understood. If a reader never understands that the narrator of Swift's essay is not serious, she will still ultimately be horrified by the "modest" proposal, and will from then on associate Swift's opponents, who use the same blandly reassured language and argumentative style as the narrator of his essay, with the cannibalism implicitly hidden beneath their rhetoric. But it takes thick skin to be a satirist, to know that one will be misunderstood as a monster. There's a reason Swift published anonymously.
Jeet Heer, in an updated version of his Globe & Mail story from last week, presents the history and complexity of French satire in a manner that those on both sides of the debate over Charlie Hebdo's alleged racism should be able to appreciate. The self-described "Frenchman and militant leftist" Olivier Tonneau full-throatedly defends the magazine in an open letter to British critics, explaining what he believes they misunderstand about CH. Tonneau claims that CH is not only not racist, but "the very newspaper that did the most to fight racism." Ruben Bolling, the cartoonist behind Tom the Dancing Bug, also claims that the CH cartoons have been misunderstood. Chad Parkhill explains some of the specific images in question. Here is a small collection of some of Cabu's explicitly anti-racist, anti-colonialist cartoons from Charlie.
Regardless of whether or not one is convinced by these defenses, one shouldn't lose sight of the wider political implications and background of the attack. Cartoons aren't going anywhere, but this is a dangerous moment for Europe. This is not the site to go to for political analysis, but it is impossible to avoid altogether. The following views I am linking to are incompatible with each other in some ways, but not in all. There are many other essays, some of them undoubtedly better, but this is a start. Juan Cole had one of the most cogent early responses, and is still worth reading if you missed it. At The New Yorker, the novelist Teju Cole notes that while the outpouring of grief for those killed in Paris is noble and encouraging, many other people around the world die every day, just as shockingly, and go unmourned. Kenan Malik writes about the implications for free speech. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Javaria Akbar and Aurelien Mondon explain why it would be a mistake to conflate the attackers with Muslims at large, and why it is foolish and wrong to hold the Muslim community as a whole responsible. (And for those of you who do Slavoj Žižek, here's Žižek.)
To go back to comics for a moment, some are upset that people they considered allies or friends are unwilling to fully stand behind the murdered cartoonists and their work. This should be kept in perspective. Satirists are always unpopular. The murdered cartoonists and staff knew that many believed their views to be racist, and if they were here to weigh in, I imagine that while they would undoubtedly be upset about their bodies being torn apart by bullets, they probably wouldn't care too much about a little negative verbal feedback. Politicians from across the spectrum, including many who were among the magazine's most frequent targets, are now attempting to use public outrage over last week's attack for their own purposes, which is far more important than the immediate reputation of a few cartoonists on Twitter.
This is one reason it was so refreshing to hear the response of Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Willem over the weekend: "We have a lot of new friends, like the pope, Queen Elizabeth, and Putin. It really makes me laugh. Marine Le Pen is delighted when the Islamists start shooting all over the place. [...] We vomit on all these people who suddenly say they are our friends," Willem said. "They've never seen Charlie Hebdo."
For those who believe in the power of cartooning, it will be interesting to see the response to the contents of Charlie Hebdo's next issue.
And on the site today, we have a new piece by our frequent legal correspondent Jeffrey Trexler, who is taking a short break from his work on an upcoming piece on the Kirby/Marvel case to discuss an American precedent to Charlie Hebdo.
Free speech is a topic that isn't exactly new to the comics world. The subject is perhaps most familiar from discussions of obscenity and the 1950s comics scare, with the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund being the best known institutional expression of the ideal. However, if we go back further in our history, we can find an equally robust debate over comics as a satirical form. The early years of the medium in the U.S. brought forth a number of cases in which people argued that cartoons went too far, and their creators or publishers did not always win.
The fundamental parameters of the debate were established in the very first reported court opinion to use the word "cartoon," the Supreme Court of Louisiana's ruling in State ex re. Liversey et al. v. Judge of Civil District Court, 34 La.Ann. 741 (1882). The newspaper that gave rise to this landmark case a New Orleans satirical broadsheet called The Mascot.
A local writer and photographer named Sally Asher has recently provided some fascinating historical background about The Mascot, which as it turns out has other tangential connections to l'affaire Charlie Hebdo. For one thing, like its French counterpart The Mascot was a recurring target for violence by those it offended, such that at one point a newspaper artist was attacked because a mob mistakenly suspected that he drew cartoons for The Mascot. In what is perhaps the most outrageous Charlie Hebdo analogue, a few years after the lawsuit in question two local officials went to the paper's office and attempted to murder both its publisher and its engraver. In the ensuing scuffle, one of the officials was himself shot to death in self-defense. The intended Mascot victims were acquitted in their murder trial, but so too was the surviving state official ostensibly compelled to kill by their offensive publication.
More Resistance is What We Need
BY Dan Nadel Jan 09, 2015	Leave a comment
First an update on on the attack on Charlie Hebdo:
Here are Art Spiegelman and Tariq Ramadan discussing Charlie and satire.
And here is Tom Spurgeon's evolving coverage and thoughts on the attack.
On the site, Cynthia Rose has a written a personal account of her experience on Wednesday in Paris.
Yesterday afternoon I walked to the Picasso Museum, walked because I wanted to try and avoid the gendarmes, flashing lights and soldiers. Nevertheless, I could hear the sounds of emergency all over Paris. While I crossed street after street, police motorcycles flew by
I was out because in my purse I had the invitation to a special event. It was a "concert with live drawing", a celebration scheduled to link the Musée Picasso and the graphic novel PABLO. (A best seller in France, PABLO is soon due out in English from Blank Slate Press). I love this four-volume series and wanted to see its authors in action.
Yet how could creators Julie Birmant and Clément Oubrerie be expected to "perform"? Ever since 11:30, when five of the most beloved artists in France were gunned down at their work – along with seven colleagues – the capital had been in both shock and semi-lockdown.
The perpetrators were on the run and still out there somewhere. All over France, landmarks, schools and transport were on full alert.
And in more usual affairs, we have Katie Skelly reviewing In Clothes Called Fat.
In the world of In Clothes Called Fat, also as in Helter Skelter, a beautiful appearance isn't just something to strive for; it determines your lot in life. Enter Mayumi, the office sweetheart, who threatens Noko's already precarious sanity. Beloved in the office despite her questionable work ethic, Mayumi is always flocked by her admiring colleagues and outside of the office men constantly pester her. Her hair is perfect and her underwear is La Perla. Mayumi makes little secret with the rest of the office ladies about her affair with Saito; Noko overhears Mayumi recount their sexual escapades ("vanilla") while hiding in a bathroom stall eating a candy bar. In this scene, the difference between Noko and her female colleagues is severe in Anno's hands: while her "normal" (thin, pretty) coworkers are drawn as Anno's signature wide-eyed waifs, Noko is both inflated and flattened at once, as abstracted as the Michelin man. Here, Noko's appearance is not just a disruption in her office life, but also a formal disruption of Anno's joseifashion-plate aesthetic.
Also, Tim and I both forgot to mention Greg Hunter's review of the new edition of Frontier.
And finally, we have corrected an error in Whit Taylor's CAB report. I should've caught this initially, but the sequence of events from BCGF to CAB was misrepresented. The correct sentences now read:
"After a four-year run, Nadel and Kartalopoulos dissolved the show, and Fowler launched a new convention using the same model, with a new name: Comics Art Brooklyn. He asked Paul Karasik to coordinate programming."
Thanks to Bill for pointing this out.
Let's all hope for a peaceful weekend.
BY Tim Hodler Jan 08, 2015	1 Comment
Obviously and sadly, the major comics-related news today concerns the attack yesterday morning on the Paris headquarters of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. According to reports, masked gunmen entered the building and killed twelve people, including four cartoonists (Cabu, Tignous, Wolinski, and editor Stephane Charbonnier), and critically wounded at least four others. The attackers are still at large, but two of them have been officially identified by police. [UPDATE: The names of all twelve victims have now been released, and a fifth cartoonist was one of them: Honoré.]
It is still difficult to express the shock and dismay this event has provoked. We express our condolences and support to the family, friends, and colleagues of the victims.
Both the National Cartoonists Society and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists have released statements about the attack.
There has been much good reporting on the event. The Guardian in particular has extensive, regularly updated coverage.
Bart Beaty has an excellent short piece on Slate called "What It Means to Be a Cartoonist in France". In the same magazine, Joshua Keating reports on the history of the publication and the likely context informing the attack.
There have been too many noteworthy responses to the attack to list them all here, but a few that stood out so far include pieces by Zunar, Jeet Heer, Arthur Goldhammer, Domingos Isabelinho, Matthias Wivel, Zainab Akhtar, and Ted Rall.
There is a lot we still don't know. We will have more coverage soon.
Today, on the site we are publishing Ken Parille's first column of 2015, in which he names his choice for comics critic of the year. Last time he did this, Parille counterintuitively honored Fredric Wertham. Who's the winner for 2014?
The Internet seems to have brought into being a new type of critic: The Millennial Literalist. A product of the 21st-century's asphyxiating instantaneous reaction culture, the ML's motto is Read then Rant. They've been trained to see immediacy as an unquestioned value. (Think about how anxious we get — even pissed off — when someone doesn't reply to our text within ten minutes, especially since we always reply to them in like under a minute!) Why reread, reflect upon, and reconsider our reactions to a work of art, all of which take precious time and may lead to mixed-up feelings and queasy uncertainty, when we can trust — and immediately globally disseminate — our first instincts? "The now" of unfiltered passion always indicates authenticity, and that's what the world needs more of, right?
Unsurprisingly, immediacy generates a number of casualties. When MLs go after an online comic, for example, they trample over the hard to describe, not always obvious qualities that make it art in order to reduce it to an easy-to-attack message. MLs often interact with a comic as if it's an expository prose essay expressed in a neutral, legalistic tone. Since it's hard to pontificate in the presence of ambiguity, the ML ignores complexity, irony, playfulness, narrative perspective, drawing style, tone, etc., flattening art into 'mere rhetoric.' If not quite art's enemy, the ML is, at best, its fair-weather friend. If a comic expresses their opinions in the correct way — the way they want and need it to — they'll hype it on Twitter. But if not, watch out, artists! (If you're a non-Millennial, don't worry. This practice really isn't the province of any 'demographic.' In this new century, with computers always in our back pockets, anyone can be a literalist.)
This will be a good one for the people who like to read skim quickly for the parts they can get outraged by without even attempting to empathize with the writer's viewpoint. Should be fun for Ken online today!
Meanwhile, elsewhere:
—More Best of 2014 Lists. These haven't slowed down much yet. This time, I have lists from Paul Gravett, Nerdist, and a variety of different comics folks recruited by Zainab Akhtar.
—Interviews & Profiles. Hillary Brown has a strong interview with the always fascinating Dylan Horrocks. Tim O'Shea talks to Mike Dawson.
—Reviews & Commentary. Panel Patter looks at Dash Shaw's coloring strategies. Ben Marks notes the publication of volume 3 of Walt Kelly's Pogo, in which we enter the strip's most famous era.
—Misc. Over the holiday, I missed this great Ivan Brunetti post about attempting to fill Ernie Bushmiller's shoes on Nancy. The critic Robert Boyd remembers his own youthful attempt to become a cartoonist.
—Podcasts. I missed many of these over the holiday break. At Inkstuds, I liked the interview with Tom Spurgeon. I haven't listened to the episode where Brandon Graham, Ed Piskor, and Joe Keatinge discuss the work of Rob Liefeld yet, but since I called for just that kind of thing from Liefeld fans a while back, I feel obligated to link to it and plan to listen soon. (I'm hoping none of them held my request against me...)
Make It Then Tell Everybody hosted Kevin Huizenga, Hope Larson, and Josh Bayer.
At Comic Books Are Burning in Hell, Once, Current, and Future TCJ contributors Tucker Stone, Joe McCulloch, Chris Mautner, and Matt Seneca discuss their favorite comics of 2014.
Good morning. I wrote about Zap, finally. Take it as it is.
The Complete Zap Comix came and went a couple months back, selling out at the distributor level within a week or so of its release. For such an event, there was little discussion about it aside from laudatory news articles and the occasional interview (my own contribution to said genres, an interview with Robert Crumb, will be published in the February issue of The Believer). So, I wanted to mention a few things and then maybe we can all discuss Zap.
I tend to agonize over what is being looked at and what is not, and if there's one thing I have noticed these last few years of the proliferation of comic book conventions is that the various constellations of influence and adulation have shifted a lot. One could argue that the main source of influence is the convention itself, but that's a different discussion. All this to say is that there is now a notable lack of interest in Crumb (and a fair bit of antipathy, as well, but hey, he can take it) and a near-total disinterest in underground comics in general. There was a time, oh, 15 years ago let's say, when Crumb and Zap remained the gold standard. This was reinforced by Dan Clowes and Chris Ware, who brought together the RAW and Weirdo strands of influence into a briefly coherent history in which Art Spiegelman, Crumb, and Gary Panter, all loomed large. This time has passed. Things are far too fractured now to nail down any dominant lineage in comics, and Clowes and Ware have withdrawn from their more public efforts at history making, having thankfully accomplished a ton. (Though I still long for Clowes in particular to take a more active role in publishing the oddities of comic book history, but hey, he's busy. We're all so fucking busy after the age of 35. Who has the time?) There are so many strains that have sprung up in the last ten years – thanks in large part to the availability of manga, the ongoing reprint boom, and most especially the web, and Tumblr in particular. Nothing is just a straight line anymore, if it ever was. I mean, if you'd told me ten years ago that the figures looming largest in comics today (at least from what I can tell at festivals and online) are Osamu Tezuka, Moebius, and Alison Bechdel I'd have laughed you out of the room. Quality lit comics might still sell the best (think Roz Chast, Bechdel, and of course Ware), but that does not equal influence. Yeah, so this is the odd situation we find ourselves in, wherein the medium of comics is being so thoroughly explored and mined for new streams that once unavoidable figures and events like Crumb and Zap can simply be ignored. This is good and bad. It's good that there is such a plurality now, but bad that the rise of the plurality means there's a lot of noise to cut through to get to the good stuff.
And elsewhere:
[UPDATE: An attack by gunmen on the Paris office of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has resulted in the deaths of at least twelve, including several cartoonists. Here is a report from the BBC.]
The big news yesterday was IDW's acquisition of Top Shelf, publisher of Hey, Mister, among other titles. I'm just glad we can all stop pretending Top Shelf was somehow still the same company it was 10 years ago, or even related to that company. So yeah, into the blue sky! Here's Tom Spurgeon, who has more positive thoughts on the matter.
I enjoyed this profile of the "lost" cartoonist/illustrator Eugene Bilbrew.
Alex Dueben talks to the great Sam Glanzman, cartoonist of all-time-great comic book Kona.
For Real This Time
BY Tim Hodler Jan 06, 2015	Leave a comment
Shuddering wheezingly back to life, time waits for no one, and Joe McCulloch is here with his weekly guide to the best-sounding new comics available in stores. Devoted readers of the comics form will know what to do.
Meanwhile, elsewhere, an incomplete collection of links from the past two weeks:
[UPDATED TO ADD:] —News. This morning, IDW announced their acquisition of Top Shelf. More on this soon.
—Best of 2014 Lists. These of course proliferated recently, and I only collect a few of the ones which have appeared during our break. Some are interesting either because the recommendations are actually solid, personal lists, others merely for helping to gauge the online zeitgeist. In no particular order: Michael Dooley at Print, Nick Gazin at Vice, Brian Cremins, a slew of lists collected by Forbidden Planet, various contributors at Robot 6, Comics Alliance, Wired, Marc-Oliver Frisch. There are surely more of these to come. Also, the Beat polled comics industry professionals and named Raina Telgemeier as the person of the year.
—Interviews and Profiles. Tom Spurgeon got his annual holiday interviews slate going with Jesse Jacobs. Noah Berlatsky spoke to Marguerite Van Cook and James Romberger. Brigid Alverson talked to Ryan Sands about his rotating-artist anthology series Frontier.
—Funnies. Anders Nilsen on optimism. Connor Willumsen's "Sunset People". Gabrielle Bell's "The Dishrack".
—Reviews & Commentary. Paul Karasik analyzes a classic Charles Addams gag. Tim O'Neil hopes you don't overlook Jules Feiffer's Kill My Mother (and is himself deeply confused about Crumb's Genesis). Michelle Dean reviews Jeet Heer's new essay collection, Sweet Lechery. Abhay Khosla looks at The Valiant #1.
—News-ish. Speaking of Valiant, Abraham Riesman profiles the company for Vulture.
The Wall Street Journal takes a look at the expanding and diversifying readership of comics.
SAW has added some nice rewards (4CP cards from John Hilgart, etc.) to its fundraising campaign.
Hi, welcome back. We've crossed into the new year. And Ryan Holmberg is starting us off right with an article about an early episode of Osamu Tezuka's career that Ryan calls The Fukui Ei'ichi Incident and the Prehistory of Komaga-Gekiga.
Though generous to his fans, and generally warm with his peers, Tezuka Osamu (1928-89) was not above letting professional jealousy get the best of him. The first time this trait reared its head in public was in 1953, when, in a series about comics-making and comics aesthetics for Manga Shōnen, the new prince of manga took a swipe at his foremost competitor, Fukui Ei'ichi (1921-54), who was older than him by seven years.
The series in question, Manga Classroom(Manga kyōshitsu), had begun serialization the previous year. It was partially modeled after Manga College (Manga daigaku), the best-selling tutorial Tezuka had created in 1950 for the Osaka publisher Tōkōdō.
After dominating the Osaka akahon market, Tezuka had only recently begun working for Tokyo magazines. The legendary Jungle Emperor (Janguru taitei, 1950-54), published in the same Manga Shōnen, was one of his first such serials. Manga Shōnen was famous not only as the home to this proto-Lion King title, but also as a venue to which young cartoonists could submit short four-panel work for review by Tezuka or the magazine's editors or other contributing artists. Select submissions received critique within the magazine's pages. The best received a small pin badge as award. Amongst the youngsters who got sucked into a life of cartooning through this exchange were Ishinomori Shōtarō, Akatsuka Fujio, both halves of Fujiko Fujio, Tatsumi Yoshihiro, and Sakurai Shōichi.
The Wall Street Journal has an article about the continually growing market for women readers of comics.
Chris Randle interviews Anne Ishii about Massive, among other topics.
Tom Spurgeon has a running list of "50 Comics Positives for 2014".
Chuck Forsman writes a revealing essay about his 2014 as a cartoonist.
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum has acquired the Jeff MacNelly collection.
And here is a video of Matthew Thurber's Mining the Moon musical as performed last year.
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Today on the site we have a holiday double-header:
Michael Dean on the Christmas gift of Greg Theakston's battle with the Jack Kirby Museum, which is a perfect encapsulation of why the efforts of why the efforts of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum are so important.
In what has to be one of the world's slowest-building controversies, Theakston's grievance with the Kirby Museum has been building for some time. The short version: Theakston says the museum borrowed from him more than 3,000 photocopies of Kirby pencil art and won't return them. The museum takes the two-fold — if somewhat contradictory — position that 1) Theakston is not entitled to have the photocopies back because he donated them to the museum, and 2) he never owned them to begin with, having borrowed them from the Kirby family. The museum has asserted that the copies ultimately belong to the Kirby family, and the Kirby estate has officially sided with the museum.
And on a happier note, Paul Tumey tells the story of one mid-century comic fan's dreams come true:
With an out-going mother and a love of comics, it's no surprise that Peter would go past admiring from afar, and make actual contact with his hero. Mrs. Brown tracked Walt Kelly down at his Hall Syndicate address in New York City, and initiated for her son a correspondence that occurred first around Christmas 1953, and then resumed from September 1958 to May 1961. Over fifty years later, Peter Brown has discovered the letters Walt Kelly wrote, bundled up in a trunk and forgotten for decades. In addition to the letters, the original art and books Kelly sent Peter and his brothers as gifts were also saved. In all, 23 letters survive.
The earliest letter in the bundle is dated December 21, 1953 — written when Peter was six. The short letter is typed on Post-Hall Syndicate letterhead and signed by Kelly, who thanks Peter for a hand-drawn Christmas card. Peter recalled the card in 2014:
"My younger brother and I sent him [Walt Kelly] a homemade Christmas card that we drew up together. We colored it and added a couple of panels, it was a Christmas greetings. It depicted how we imagined Pogo and Albert would be enjoying Christmas. My brother was a very good artist. After we sent this off to Walt my brother lost interest in Pogo and went on to other art projects. He is a professional artist today. I kept up the correspondence. "
Tomorrow we'll have our traditional year-end "best of TCJ". See you then.
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We're almost done here, but before we go, please read and enjoy Whit Taylor's latest article, which started as a typical convention report about her trip to this year's CAB and turned into an investigation of the sustainability of the convention model. Here's a section from the middle:
I talked to Robyn Chapman, cartoonist and micro-publisher (Paper Rocket Minicomics), about The Tiny Report. The idea grew out of her interest in minicomics history and her growing awareness of the proliferation of micro-presses, which see sees as a "movement." She agrees with [Kevin] Czapiewski in many respects. "I think conventions are very important," she says. "One of my biggest challenges as a micro-publisher is distributing my books. There are very few distribution options available to me, so I'll use anything that works. And what works for me right now are conventions, Kickstarter, and selling through Desert Island. (Because I work there, I can always keep my books in stock)."
However, Chapman goes on to note that it has grown harder for her to turn a profit at conventions or simply break even. "I believe I'm producing the best work of my life, but selling comics at conventions was easier when I was in my early twenties, when my work was often, in my opinion, mediocre. I think there are a few reasons for this," Chapman says. "The number of quality small-press comics being produced has increased, but the audience hasn't grown at the same rate. It's harder for work to get noticed."
—Best of 2014 Lists. These continue to proliferate. Up next are lists from Noel Freibert (minicomics), Zainab Akhtar, the anonymous proprietor of the Shit Comics Tumblr, Sean T. Collins, Abraham Riesman (comic-book series), John Dermot Woods (and friends), and Abhay Khosla (who also includes a rant on Russ Heath and Roy Lichtenstein).
—News. As reported on Facebook at the end of last week, Norm Breyfogle has been hospitalized with a stroke.
—Reviews & Commentary. At Vulture, Abraham Riesman writes about Guy Delisle's Pyongyang, the film adaptation of which got scuttled in the wake of the North Korea/Sony hacking incident. Calling it "one of the most beloved graphic novels of the past 20 years" seems like an overstatement to me, but it's a nice appreciation, all the same.
—Funnies. Emily Carroll has posted a new online strip for the holidays, "All Along the Wall".
—Misc. When Chris Ware appeared in Heavy Metal>.
"I Feel Like Comics Needs Its Own Thing": An Interview with Daniel Clowes


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Live from Goldwell's Global Zoom: Head to Head with Trevor Attenborough
Trevor Attenborough, General Manager, Kao Salon Division North America, just sat down with Estetica USA to share his excitement about the beauty event of the season: Goldwell Global Zoom Challenge 2015!
The mega competition is taking place this weekend at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas – watch the LIVE STREAMING here!
Why it is so important to have Global Zoom in North America this year?
"Global Zoom is the ultimate venue for networking and for forging connections with fellow owners and stylists, and I think we need that more than ever right now. With the event happening in Las Vegas, we've got more than 1,000 Canadian and American salon professionals coming, and I'm really looking forward to connecting on a personal level."
What does having an event like Global Zoom mean to the changes that are taking place in the professional beauty business?
"In addition to the artistry showcased at Global Zoom, this year there's a strong current of business-related inspiration and education. Jeff South, for example, is going to talk about the power of the upgrade as a tool for profitability – something we've really focused on this year as a company. I think in today's professional environment, salons need business inspiration as well as creative inspiration."
What are some of the unique opportunities for salons that are lucky enough to attend Global Zoom this year?
"Well, of course they get to witness a one-of-a kind competition – the only one where finalists are selected based on a live competition. This isn't about retouching, it's about real-world, real-time hair styling. There is nothing like the tension of seeing the competition happen there on the stage and anticipating who the winner will be, not to mention getting that first look at the next collection on the main stage."
What do you consider the highlights in this year's Goldwell Global Zoom this year?
"I have to say I'm really excited about our North American finalists! We have an incredibly strong field represented by Samantha Conley, Corinne Brown and Harley Lobasso for the U.S., and Marlo Moore, Francisca Cavallare and Claude Comeau representing Canada. I can't wait to see how the crowd reacts to these amazing artists."
Who are you most excited about seeing in the conference this year?
"I love being able to host our international colleagues and am so proud to have Global Zoom back in North America. I want to show them a great time at the Cosmopolitan."
What is it about this unique beauty competition that makes it so attractive and lures such a large crowd?
"The Color Zoom competition at Global Zoom is like no other professional event on the planet. I think it appeals to professionals for a couple of reasons. First, each year's collection –like Traditional Rebels this year– is developed by previous year's winners, not someone in an office somewhere. Second, witnessing the unveiling of the next year's trend is such a rush – it makes you want to get right back behind the chair and start creating."
How is the company seizing the opportunity to make a splash in North America?
"This will be a great opportunity to get the entire North American community together and networking. We're hosting welcome party for the North American salons, for example. And we've got some of our great U.S. team members here to present, including Simon Miller, Sonna Brado and Lori Panarello from the KMS Style Council. Derrick Zeno, our 2013 Gold Partner winner who hails from the U.S., will also be here as a judge."
How does the presence of international professionals affect how you organize the event?
"This is the first time all of our Global Zoom attendees will be at one hotel – all our North American salon partners and international partners will be together at the Cosmopolitan. That really underscores that this is not a single-market event – it's for everyone. No creative barriers, no geographic barriers."
How is education important to the brand's development?
"Education is what keeps us all moving forward. It's how we help our salon owners and stylists to stay inspired, stay fresh and keep their careers and businesses growing and thriving. Education is also a huge part of Global Zoom – with diverse opportunities for skills development and business building. Being a true professional is a journey – not a destination."
Which are some of the exciting news for KAO North America coming up in the next months?
"As always, we have a number of innovative initiatives that we'll preview at Global Zoom, but I would get in big trouble if I gave them away ahead of time. But believe me, they're worth the wait."
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Goldwell announces Color of the Year 2020: Digital Teal 04 October 2015
Goldwell just announced its first annual Color of the Year: DIGITAL TEAL. The fusion of blue and green makes up Digital Teal. Its duality has a versatile and trans-seasonal appeal. On top of that, the saturation level adds a sense of confidence and gravitas.
Golden Globes' How To: Rachel Brosnahan's Modern Glam Hairstyle 04 October 2015
Celebrity hairstylist, Ashley Streicher, created a modern glam hair style to complement Rachel Brosnahan's bold, sleek sequin dress for last night's 2020 Golden Globes with the help of essentials from Goldwell and VARIS. Please see below for the breakdown on how to recreate her red carpet look.
Goldwell announces its Global Creative Awards 04 October 2015
The year 2020 is the year of change for Goldwell as they introduce the Global Creative Awards – an entirely new global competition focused exclusively on creativity.
Elumen Play by Rebecca Hiele & Nick Pagano 04 October 2015
Goldwell's Elumen Play color collection was inspired by the graphic bright patterns and modern fabric prints that are retro but fresh and modern simultaneously.
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Mayor Ed Mury and councilmembers Kshama Sawant and Lisa Herbold unveiled a joint proposal on June 12 to levy an income tax on high-income households in Seattle.
The proposal would place a 2% tax on joint filers' income over $500,000 and single tax filers' income over $250,000. "The estimated $125 million in new annual revenue would allow the city to lower the burden associated with property taxes and other regressive taxes, replace federal funding potentially lost through President Trump's budget cuts, enhance public services such as housing, education, transit, and/or create green jobs while meeting the city's carbon reduction goals," said a statement from the mayor's office.
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without an income tax. Washington's sales tax is one of the highest in the nation. That combination makes for one of the most regressive tax structures in the US.
Supporters of the current tax structure say that having no income tax lures global corporations here. Opponents, including Mayor Murray, insist the current tax structure is unfair to low- income households.
"The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) has found Washington state's existing tax structure to be the most regressive in the nation, disproportionately hitting low-income households," the mayor's office said. "ITEP found in 2015 that state and local taxes paid by the 20% of Washington families with the lowest incomes amounted to 16.8% of their income. In contrast, the tax burden for the 1% of families with the highest incomes was 2.4% of their income."
The city council is expected to take a vote by mid-July.
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