[Comicsstudiessociety] poetry comics?

Andrew O'Malley aomalley at ryerson.ca
Mon Sep 14 14:58:05 EDT 2020


Hi Patrick - I'm coming in even later, but there is also a guy in Montreal
named Julian Peters who adapts famous, usually canonical, poems into
webcomics: https://julianpeterscomics.com/
Best,
Andrew

On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 14:24, Charles Hatfield via ComicsStudiesSociety <
comicsstudiessociety at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> Coming in late: the excellent journal *Ink Brick *(now on hiatus)
> produced ten issues of comics poetry between 2013 and 2019!
>
> https://inkbrick.com/
>
> CH
> Charles Hatfield
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 9:40 AM Patrick D. Holt via ComicsStudiesSociety <
> comicsstudiessociety at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Thanks everyone!  It's awesome to have such a good batch of readings to
>> get me started :)
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 9:37 AM Candida Rifkind via ComicsStudiesSociety <
>> comicsstudiessociety at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> *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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Josh
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> Subject: Re: [Comicsstudiessociety] poetry comics?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> Brian Cremins, PhD
>>>
>>> (he/him/his)
>>>
>>> Professor of English
>>>
>>> Harper College
>>>
>>> Palatine, IL 60067
>>>
>>> Associate Editor, *Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society*
>>>
>>> www.brianwcremins.com
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