[Comicsstudiessociety] poetry comics?

Mon Sep 14 15:10:28 EDT 2020

Another tardy thought: Soft Skull Press posthumously published Kenneth
Koch's collection *The Art of the Possible: Comics Mainly Without Pictures*
in 2004. These are visual poems (from someone best known as a poet, of
course) that also invite us to read them as comics. They have panels,
configured in deliberate layouts; what they don't usually have is figural
drawing. I like to use examples from *Art of the Possible* in class. IIRC,
comics creators such as Derik Badman have also written about this work.
It's delightful.

CH

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 11:58 AM Andrew O'Malley <aomalley at ryerson.ca>
wrote:

> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *From:* ComicsStudiesSociety <comicsstudiessociety-bounces+c.rifkind=
>>>> uwinnipeg.ca at lists.osu.edu> *On Behalf Of *Josh Rose via
>>>> ComicsStudiesSociety
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>>>> *Subject:* Re: [Comicsstudiessociety] poetry comics?
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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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *JOSH ROSE* faculty of art history
>>>>
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>>>> From: "Brian Cremins via ComicsStudiesSociety" <
>>>> comicsstudiessociety at lists.osu.edu>
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>>>> To: "discussion list for members of the Comics Studies Society" <
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>>>> Sent: 9/12/2020 6:25:25 PM
>>>>
>>>> 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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