Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Drawing a winner
I am always interested in the MacArthur Award winners. The "genius" grant.
MacArthur Awards Go to 21 Diverse Fellows
The annual event is one of the most prestigious events for artists, a term that has a rather wide meaning where the MacArthurs are concerned.
This year a particular thrill to see that Alison Bechdel, a wonderful writer and cartoonist is one of the winners.
Bechdel is the creator of a series of cartoons depicting lesbian life and is the author of an autobiographical graphic book called Fun Home which I am sure that I reviewed here a long time ago.
I have gotten a lot of pleasure from seeing her work and am so happy to see her receive this substantial financial gift for her work.
She had a website, Dykes to Watch Out For which I would regularly "watch out for" on my daily internet travels. She has since retired that site to do the later books as well as to take advantage of several scholarly projects.
Such good news.
Her cartoons managed to bring humor to the counterculture without compromising the point. They covered a wide range of the PC territory.
Labels: cartoons, counterculture, humor, lesbians
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Old but not worn out yet
I am not sure that I should be looking at a cartoon about old people.
Particularly when it seems true and frank and clear right down to the core of it.
And a cartoon! Many eons from Mickey Mouse.
It was hard to watch and, at the same time, very cleansing.
This film puts it all out on the table. The good, the bad and, well it is all kind of ugly but not always.
I think that the animation allows a certain reality. Ironic, that. There are no actors mincing around pretending to be geezers.
This is an Argentine film. The thing takes place in an old age "home" so there is a certain cast to it which I think is not in our/my future. Somehow we have made a transition from "homes" to home with at-home help. If you go to a home it is a nursing home and it is because you must have nursing. These people are not there yet. That happens "upstairs". The dread end point for the terminally sick and the demented.
This is a very good film. The animation is superbly done. Not at all "life-like", that wouldn't work. But stylized in a way that keeps a strong connection to reality.
I do not want to see this again. Once is enough. But that is more because I am living out my own wrinkles and do not need any reinforcement. I should put a smiley face next to that. I am not really in a downer about the film or being an old fart.
A 4 out of Netflix5.
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Monday, February 05, 2007
GREAT SCRIBBLING NEWS
The Illustrated Daily Scribble
has returned!!
Charles Pugsley Fincher.
This is the bar-none best political commentary sites that exists.
His Cheney is a classic.
Evidently, he is not daily but 'every so often'.
Whatever is great for me.
Labels: bushie, cartoons, scribble
