If I knew how, I would show this video at the end of my talk.
If I knew how, I would show this video at the end of my talk.
My participation in the New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium can be watched, here.
Two corrections: Martin Vaughn-James is not Canadian. The Cage was published in Canada, but he was from the UK; Charlotte Salomon's book is Life! Or Theater?.
Omaggio a.... Hector German Oesterheld [homage to Héctor Germán Oesterheld]
Luca mentioned the book Donde Esta Oesterheld? What you can see above is another homage to Oesterheld made in Italy. A portfolio which is, unfortunately, not dated. The subtitle says "the heart of Argentine comics" which is a poetical way of putting things, but is very true. Inside there's a good text by Giulio C. Cuccolini.
As I told Luca in comments I have never seen Sgt. Kirk magazine #31-60, but, looking on eBay I found the table of contents (see above) of #31 and lo and behold, it's precisely in #31 that things changed and, finally, Oesterheld got credited.
People are excited about the new set of comics related exhibitions at the Beaubourg in Paris. I haven't been there, so I can't say anything about it, but there's a blatant flaw I want to address. To quote the site of the Centre Pompidou:
Corto Maltese une vie romanesque [...] Une exposition qui met en évidence les sources littéraires d’Hugo Pratt : Hermann Melville, Joseph Conrad, Jack London…
I don't know if I need to translate the phrase or not, but, since I'm writing in English: "Corto Maltese an adventurous life [...] An exhibition that underlines the literary sources of Hugo Pratt: Hermann Melville, Joseph Conrad, Jack London…"
Hugo Pratt, himself, also cited Zane Grey, but he's too lowbrow, I guess...
But I digress... This is all fine and dandy to continue the myth of the great man. The great European artist who brought true literature to the lowly comic...
Being serious: the real literary source of Hugo Pratt was Héctor Germán Oesterheld and not only these French, I guess, curators forgot him, they forgot all the rich Argentinian comics tradition. The Venice Biennale invited a Brazilian curator this year. Maybe the comics habitus needs a similar revolution. Unfortunately comics are always apart from what's going on in the rest of the world...