Tuesday, January 29, 2008  
Tonite: Extraction Book Launch, Toronto

:: Posted by Bryan @ 1/29/2008 05:16:00 PM
When Comix and Journalism Collide …

Journalistic graphic novel portrays the dirty business of global
resource extraction in the 21st century.

TORONTO Tuesday, January 29, 2008
COMIX JAM The Cameron House, 408 Queen Street West
LAUNCH 8:00 p.m. info: 416-703-0811

http://www.cumuluspress.com/extraction

Cumulus Press recently released a new title EXTRACTION! Comix Reportage.
This 'graphic novel' started with four journalistic stories about the
mining industry. These stories were scripted then handed over to four
comix artists (including 2007 Doug Wright Award winner, Joe Ollmann) to
create a multi-styled comic book about mining that, according to Joe
Sacco, "is the perfect idea for a graphic treatment."

Cumulus Press will launch this book of comix journalism within the
January edition of the Toronto Comix Jam, whose jammers will create
collective strips of journalism based on articles provided for the
evening. Here the challenge will persist between the 'give' of
verifiable facts and the 'take' of graphic interpretation, between the
'push' of fact-based details and the 'pull' of visual narrative. The
craft of comix journalism does not stem from the combination of text and
image, content and structure. It is the added meaning derived from the
interaction between the symbolic and the realistic, the literal and the
figurative that gives it strength.

The extraction of natural resources today is a dirty business. Since
2000, most energy and mineral prices are skyrocketing. Junior mining
prospectors and unscrupulous transnational corporations rush into new
territories to suck what's hot out of the earth's lucrative veins. In
today's gas, oil and mining industries, the pace of exploration,
extraction, transformation and delivery of the world's resources is mind
boggling. The German magazine Der Spiegel speaks of a Third World War
for the world's resources. It is more like a blitzkrieg.

EXTRACTION! looks into the exploration, exploitation and extraction
gold, bauxite, uranium and oil, from a common-good social justice
perspective, in Guatemala, India, Quebec and Alberta, respectively.

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