[Comicsstudiessociety] poetry comics?

[Candida Rifkind]

Above the Dreamless Dead, an anthology of WWI poetry and comics, might be of interest:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781626720657

Also, I’m about to teach Weshoyot Alvitre’s comics adaptation of a poem by E. Pauline Johnson in Graphic Classics, Volume 24: Native American Classics.

Other comics adaptations of Indigenous/Native American poets appear in the Sovereign Traces anthologies:
https://msupress.org/9781938065118/sovereign-traces-volume-2/
Candida

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Well, there is always Scott McCloud's "ur" digital comic on his site, which is an adaptation of a Browning poem: http://scottmccloud.com/1-webcomics/porphyria/index.html

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Josh

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Hi Patrick,

Here are some titles that you might be interested in taking a look at:

John Porcellino often illustrates his own poems or includes illustrated versions of classic haiku in King-Cat. You might start with collections like King-Cat Classix, Map of My Heart, or From Lone Mountain.

At his distro, Spit and a Half, he also has copies of a collection (without comics or illustrations) of some of his earlier poetry, On Ruby Hill:

https://www.spitandahalf.com/product/on-ruby-hill-by-john-porcellino/

Marnie Galloway's In the Sounds and Seas is a wordless adaptation of The Odyssey, very much in the spirit of H.D.'s adaptations of both Sappho and Homer:

https://marniegalloway.squarespace.com/in-the-sounds-and-seas

Marnie has published work in the poetry journal Court Green, which has also featured asemic comics by Gene Kannenberg, Jr. Editors Tony Trigilio & David Trinidad have been trying to include more comics in the journal since making the shift from being a print to an online publication. Here are the links to those recent issues:

https://courtgreen.net/issue-14/comics

https://courtgreen.net/issue-15/comics

You might also enjoy reading Matt Levin's Walking Man Comics, which he's been creating since the 1980s. In addition to his poetry comics--created partly with rubber stamps!--he's also done a series of Musicomics in which he illustrates his lyrics:

https://www.facebook.com/Walking-Man-Comics-142371289185184/

And you may also want to read the new collected edition of Katherine Collins's classic series Neil the Horse, which not only includes dance sequences (sometimes with Fred Astaire himself) but also passages with original song lyrics being sung by the main characters in the series, Neil, Soapy the Cat, and Mam'selle Poupee, as they "Make the World Safe for Musical Comedy":

https://www.conundrumpress.com/new-titles/the-collected-neil-the-horse/

Here is Trina Robbins's recent article on the series from the Paris Review:

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/09/20/neil-horse-rides/

I hope you enjoy these, and I look forward to seeing what suggestions others have.

Have a good weekend!

Brian

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