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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.Labels: Alberta, cartoon reportage, comic jams, graphic novels, Ontario, Quebec, Toronto
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