Comics Beat, January 29, 2016

On The Scene: Our Comics, Ourselves Illuminates The History of Comics Diversity
01/29/2016 By Charles Brownstein
Organizers Jan Descartes, Ethan Heitner, and Monica McKelvey Johnson gathered a broad, well-considered, and cohesive overview of comics whose authors, characters and subject matter spoke to the concerns of diverse audiences. While much of the work on display was visually pleasing, aesthetics wasn’t the primary objective here, storytelling was.

Comics Beat, January 29, 2016

On The Scene: Our Comics, Ourselves Illuminates The History of Comics Diversity
01/29/2016 By Charles Brownstein
Organizers Jan Descartes, Ethan Heitner, and Monica McKelvey Johnson gathered a broad, well-considered, and cohesive overview of comics whose authors, characters and subject matter spoke to the concerns of diverse audiences. While much of the work on display was visually pleasing, aesthetics wasn’t the primary objective here, storytelling was.

Hillary Chute on Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form

Friday, February 26, 2016
7–9pm
In hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshima’s Ground Zero, comics display a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Investigating how hand-drawn comics has come of age as a serious medium for engaging history, Disaster Drawn explores the ways graphic narratives by diverse artists, including Jacques Callot, Francisco Goya, Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman, and Joe Sacco, document the disasters of war.

Hillary Chute on Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form

Friday, February 26, 2016
7–9pm
In hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshima’s Ground Zero, comics display a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Investigating how hand-drawn comics has come of age as a serious medium for engaging history, Disaster Drawn explores the ways graphic narratives by diverse artists, including Jacques Callot, Francisco Goya, Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman, and Joe Sacco, document the disasters of war.

if a song could be freedom mixtapes

As part of the if a song could be freedom…Organized Sounds of Resistance exhibition, we invited musicians, activists organizers to curate a mixtape on a theme and genre of their choice. Here is the current collection of those which have been released! Listen up!

Frame Up podcast series: Episode 1

Frame up is a series of conversations with filmmakers about the intersection of cultural production and politics, produced by the Interference Archive. In episode 1, Kelly Gallagher and Alex Johnston talk…

Watch a video of Suad Amiry’s talk at Interference Archive

On December 14, 2015, Suad Amiry visited Interference Archive to share stories from her best-selling book, Sharon and My Mother-in-Law.  Her book on life in the Occupied Territories is the January 2016 selection for Librarians and Archivists with Palestine’s One Book, Many Communities campaign.

Watch a video of Suad Amiry's talk at Interference Archive

On December 14, 2015, Suad Amiry visited Interference Archive to share stories from her best-selling book, Sharon and My Mother-in-Law.  Her book on life in the Occupied Territories is the January 2016 selection for Librarians and Archivists with Palestine’s One Book, Many Communities campaign.

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