#joyce brabner

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My Top 100 Favorite Movies:

95. American Splendor (2003) - Dir. Shari Springer Berman/Robert Pulcini

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Brought to Light, by Alan Moore, Bill Sienkiewicz, Joyce Brabner & Thomas Yeates. This is the first British edition by Titan Books from 1989. It was published first by Eclipse Comics in the US.

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Someone kindly digitized a pretty hard to find political graphic anthology called 'Brought to Light: Thirty Years of Drug Smuggling, Arms Deals, and Covert Action' from 1988. I recommend giving them a read. "Shadowplay: The Secret Team written by Alan Moore and drawn by Bill Sienkiewicz with an introduction by Daniel Sheehan (general counsel of TCI). It covers the history of the Central Intelligence Agency and its controversial involvement in the Vietnam War, the Iran-Contra affair, and its relationship with figures like Augusto Pinochet and Manuel Noriega. The narrator of ‘Shadowplay’ is an aging anthropomorphic American Eagle, a bellicose retired CIA agent." .... "The story of ‘Shadowplay’ is of an unseen character (presumably representing the oblivious American public in first-person view of the reader) in a bar, where he is approached by a man-sized, walking, talking eagle. The eagle, from the emblem of the CIA, proceeds to drink alcohol and, in a drunken stupor, divulge all the bloody details of The Agency's sordid past. Early on a reference is made to the number of gallons an Olympic swimming pool can hold, and the fact that an adult human body has one gallon of blood; from then on, the victims of CIA activities (directly or indirectly) are quantified in swimming pools filled with blood, each pool representing 20,000 dead. Sienkiewicz's dark, erratic, and blurry images keep the mood of Moore's narration (through the boozing eagle) unnerving, and hazily nightmarish." .... "Flashpoint: The LA Penca Bombing is written by Joyce Brabner (and drawn by Thomas Yeates), as told to her by Christic Institute clients Martha Honey and Tony Avirgan. It deals with the La Penca bombing which happened during the civil war in Nicaragua in 1984."

For a more detailed account of how this anthology was made and the actual history involved that this anthology is only skimming, go here. For a wider view of the CIA’s involvement in drug trafficking and other illegal activities, see the wiki page ‘Allegations of CIA drug trafficking’ but consider it a primer on the subject rather than a comprehensive overview.  Not my usual posting fair, I know. 

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American splendor, 2003

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American splendor, 2003

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Joyce Brabner, 1952-2024 - The Comics Journal

Activist, author, and advocate Joyce Brabner passed away after a long battle with cancer on Aug. 2.

A pretty good appreciation of Joyce Brabner who made multiple contributions to indie comics throughout her life. As is always the case with artists married to more famous male artists, her own work was always overshadowed by Harvey Pekar. But Joyce did some fascinating stuff in her own right as a writer and editor.

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DNC DONE!

It's been an absolutely wild ride the last two weeks. Yesterday brought to an end the road journey around the chaos that is the intra-party pageantry of the American political system.   The Democratic National Convention was every bit as insane as a Bond movie. Who would have thought that my joke about there being Russians would actually come true:-)

The truly great experience was working with my twin brother Jim Fielder, on our new venture 'The Dieselfunk GLOG and SHOW. Expect more on that as we go along. Thanks to Joyce Brabner, founder of Comixcast, my Comixcast mates, and of course The Illustrious One's, THE OUTHOUSERS, for letting me do my thang. Also, I want to acknowledge Black Enterprise Magazine's , Derek Dingle, Maryann Reid, Hailey Wallace, and Sharon Wynne.  

Finally, none of this would have been known about without the continued tweeting, retweeting of the numerous bloggers out there.  All of theblerdgurls, afronerds, blacktribbles, blackgril nerds, yams and whathave you represent the end of the media world as we know it.  

Very quick note on GLOGGING.  IT’S FUN  

We’ll be Glogging with Joe Thomas of Atomic Comics, Ariell Johnson of Amalgam Comics, and the MAN, Danny Simmons of Rush Galleries.  Philly does indeedydo ROCK

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COMIXCAST RNC DONE!   Greetings Dieselfunkateers!  The Dieselfunk Crew has shut down operations in Cleveland as we prepare to head back to the studio.  Our final day was spent interviewing Entrepreneur, Artist, and Activist Ra Washington, owner of GUIDE TO KULCHUR.

numerous members of the Comixcast Crew, 

and finally, the Mastermind of COMIXCAST…

JOYCE BRABNER.

I’m so very, very PROUD of Joyce as her vision towards creating an inclusive, socially engaged Incubator for cartoonists of all backgrounds was an ABSOLUTE SUCCESS.  

As it stands, COMIXCAST provided the opportunity to:  1.  Provide a compelling Visual in the fight against Oppression.  2.  Give many old head cartoonists an opportunity to re-engage in the larger discussion with their Art.  3.  Give an Awesome start to young cartoonists.  4.  Creative dynamic content that bridges and transcends the analog media and blasts into the virtual media. 5.  Create the space to give life to a new form of cartooning…GLOGGING.  and finally,   6.  Allow me and my Twin Brother to create an Excitingly NEW creative venture...The Dieselfunk Glog.

Next UP… DNC Philly!