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ʀᴏʙᴇʀᴛ sɪᴋᴏʀʏᴀᴋ "Song of Myself!" (2013), a mini-comic adaptation of the Walt Whitman poem, done in the style of Silver Age comic books - i.e. Jack Kirby's artwork for Marvel.

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Robert Sikoryak

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The Unquotable Trump Uses the U.S. President’s Own Words to Turn Him Into a Comic Book Villain

After the November 2016 election, Robert Sikoryak felt an urge he couldn’t resist. Referring to the victory of Donald Trump, the award-winning cartoonist says “I really just wanted to put something out in the world that just said, ‘I object.’” That work is The Unquotable Trump, a collection that uses some of the president’s most infamous utterances on classic comic book covers.

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Cartoonist Robert Sikoryak is transforming several of the controversial and offensive statements that Trump made during the presidential election campaign into eye-catching and thought-provoking illustrations.

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A Wander Through TCAF 2018 In Panels And Personalities

A Wander Through TCAF 2018 In Panels And Personalities

The Toronto Comics Arts Festival (TCAF) is a multi-day comics festival put on by the Toronto Public Library, The Beguiling, and other fine Toronto institutions in concert with the city. The main festival ran during the past Saturday and Sunday (May 12th and 13th, 2018)but there is a week of events leading up to and surrounding TCAF. The majority of the events and panel discussions are centred in…

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Under what circumstances can Apple delete my iTunes account? Is Apple liable if I suffer loss because an app I downloaded gives me the wrong information? Can you use your Apple product to design a nuclear bomb?

The answers to these questions is, as one would expect, buried in the dense and legalistic text that is the Apple Terms & Conditions. Yes, those pages and pages of print that pretty much everyone scrolls past so they can get on with the latest update to iTunes or iOS.

With Apple’s products and services being a part of so many people’s lives, the impenetrable and inaccessible nature of Apple’s terms means most people don’t even read their contract with Apple, let alone understand what’s in it. 

So how do you get more people to read the Apple terms and conditions? Well, Robert Sikoryak has an idea. Turn them into a graphic novel! 

Sikoryak takes comics from multiple genres and turns them into a creative backdrop for the dry and legalistic language of Apple’s consumer contract. Spruiking the terms on every page is a stylized Steve Jobs, one page a super hero, the next a super villain. 

So how well does it work? 

That depends on what you think the outcome should be. I have now at least read the full terms, something I’d never done before. Do I understand the implications of the terms? Only slightly. 

Sikoryak’s artwork is enough to keep one turning the pages. However the images are not connected to the words on the page and therefore do nothing to enhance one’s understanding of the terms. 

Is it entertaining? For sure. Comic book fans will delight in trying to recognize the original source material used to inspire each page. Thankfully, ‘Terms and Conditions’ comes with a handy index where Sikoryak sets out all his original sources. How many of your favorite strips will you pick? 

If you’ve ever wanted to read the Apple terms but couldn't find the motivation, ‘Terms and Conditions’ might be the kick along you need to battle your way through an otherwise intractable text. 

If you’re a comic book devotee, you might find yourself skipping over the text and simply delighting in the depictions of Steve Jobs as everything from the Green Lantern to Homer Simpson. And if you know someone who is both an Apple user and comic book fan - I think you’ve just found the perfect birthday gift.