Wednesday, December 03, 2003  
In the Press

:: Posted by max @ 12/03/2003 03:58:00 AM
THE PANELIST

[Biweekly in the Toronto Eye]



By Guy Leshinski



11.13.03 :: A show of hands: Guy, an artist himself and thus familiar with this subject, gesticulates in prose on the problems and challenges of drawing hands and the roll they play in characterization and expression. An odd subject for a basically mainstream weekly like the EYE but I’m not complaining.



"Comics have always shared conjugal quarters with animation. Our opposable thumbs may be credit at the food-chain supermarket, but in the cartoon wilderness Charlie Brown's hands can look like Snoopy's (three fingers or four, depending on the task), and neither is any less dexterous.">>>



11.27.03 :: Seuss lets loose : Guy writes about the man behind the nonsense, Mr Dr Seuss himself [pronounced "Soyce" by the way].



In 1941, fuming at the path Hitler was scorching through Europe, Seuss joined the masthead of New York's PM magazine, the sort of lefty rag you might have found at Berkeley in the '60s (or Starbucks today). As its political cartoonist, Geisel (who even then signed his work Dr. Seuss) proved himself a strapping propagandist. He nimbly itemized current events and fashioned a charming, often hilarious, body of cartoons that captured the fervour of the times.>>>>



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co: ¡Journalista!

By Sarrah Young

running in the current Exclaim [Canada's nationally distributed music and culture tabloid]

12.01.03 :: Propaganda Hero? G.I. Joe Returns When America Needs Him Most

Sarrah takes issue with our childhood war toys being used to promote international social-political agendas. Never got to play with them myself so I’ll take her word for it that the original G.I. Joe was less of a propaganda machine for the US army in his past incarnations…



"Author Larry Hama was brilliant in creating his characters for G.I. Joe. He shaped their personalities and gave them individual characteristics that have become archetypes in the comic world. They were ordinary people doing extraordinary things. They were superheroes without special powers and as the story progressed, he fleshed out their back-stories, deepening the readers’ connection. This soap opera is comic form became ties amongst fans, for whom the fate of Snake Eyes’s sensei was big news; for many, commonalities of fandom became bonds of friendship.



G.I. Joe, at least in its mythology, put forth messages of freedom, equality, opportunity and the power of the individual. Part American military might, part technological know-how, part good ol’ perseverance, Joe became a perfect combination of bootstrap-pulling Americanism, part MacGyver adventure. Those kinds of things didn’t happen in other comics, at least at the time (though Joe’s template has been widely copied) which is why G.I. Joe was so cool.">>>>



…and here I just though it was about the rockets that could be launched and lodged in your buddies throat and the kung foo grip! : P
    
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