… and I don’t mean cartoon animals! I found this great Fresh Air interview with Irene Pepperberg, all about her pet parrot Alex. Alex could talk, count, recognize shapes, materials, colors, even absences…
Here’s Alex at work:
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From Felice Beato’s 1859 album, “Japan: People”:
Hover over the photos to see Beato’s informational captions!
#06: Two Ladies with Parasol
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I’m collecting photos of Japanese people and architecture and so on, to help my manga students at Henniker Community School can add historical details to their manga projects…
Photos from Felice Beato’s Japan (1869):
#06:Street of Hakoni Village
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I really AM still posting to this blog….
It’s been a busy season, lots of manga and comics energy, and somehow my blogging has fallen by the wayside… Denise has had a wild outburst of Facebook activity, and she’s convinced me to start my own FaceBook account(!), so I created a network page for Mimi’s Doughnuts. Join up, if you like! I’m very interested to see how we can use it.
Thanks to the Concord Monitor for this reminder of why I love teaching comics! I’m so grateful for each opportunity to work creatively with all these great teachers and students, exploring this amazing medium.
We’re in the middle of the big Fall Comics Workshop Manga residency here in Henniker, and it’s great to see the entire sixth grade turning on to the awesome characters, stories, and artwork of a distant land. (Stay tuned for student artwork soon.) I’ve been enjoying learning more about the Japanese artforms that laid the groundwork for manga, such as Ukiyo-E and Kimibashai. This is fascinating stuff!
This issue includes:
Mimi’s Doughnuts Summer 2008 Season — Comics Vs. TV — A Caveman — Cat Presidential Politics — Official List of Minicomics Created at Comics Camp 2008 — …and page after page more!
36 pages, 7″ x 8.5″
$4.00 (+ $1.00 shipping)
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… I understand it does have its revelatory moments. For example…
Well, as a follow-up to last Sunday’s workshop at the Boston Zine Fair, here is a simple text version of the main points:
I’ve stripped out all the comics samples, illustrative graphics, and many intermediary slides. They included:
A lot of the presentation also relied on anecdotal ellaboration, ad-lib gesticulation, and the eloquence of a well-placed nose-blow or coughing fit (yes, the cold still being on me that day), so let’s think of this file as a sort of a pale skeleton of the full experience… I hope it’s useful to you, O you tireless comics organizers and promoters!
Once I get over this cold, and once I write a few grants, and once I post my notes from Sunday’s Boston Zine Fair workshop… then, then, THEN I will wrap up Mimi’s Doughnuts Zine #16 and send it your way, dear reader!
