Fantagraphics‘ copublisher Gary Groth, and comic artists Peter Bagge, Ellen Forney, and Jim Woodring will be part of a forum on underground comics scene in Seattle this Thursday, March 27.
They’ll talk about their stuff “in the context of iconoclast R. Crumb and consider where the underground comic movement might be headed,” according to the Frye’s press release.
For the record, I went to the R. Crumb show at the Frye and it made me physically ill.
BF, a friend of ours, told us last week that the most depressing documentary he ever saw was about R. Crumb and his twisted, sad brothers. I can’t imagine what these guys would think if they knew in 2008 bro R’s comics would gleam from frames at a contemporary art museum in Seattle.
No, I’m not a fan of “R. Crumb’s Underground.” The things I saw at La Biennale in Venice last November were substantially more engaging–many of them evoked emotion that made me feel inspired by the cultural achievements of mankind. R. Crumb made me feel nausea.
The Antidote to R. Crumb
Making subversive comics was what people were doing then. It was fresh then. Today America is overloaded on images of sex, violence, and undertones of power dynamics are splashed everywhere. What is a feminist to do?
Ladies: Quit reading Cosmo!
Try Stanford University professor Estelle Freedman’s No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women instead. When I read it, it didn’t have this cool comics cover. Neat.
Anyway, I made the collage ‘Yes’ after reading No Turning Back one day, and thinking about how silly it all is. And how no matter what, you just can’t get away from the objectification of women in the media. But you can enjoy male beauty–monolithically underrated outside the gay community–to counter. –DK
Forum on “Seattle’s comics scene”
Thursday, March 27
7 pm
Frye Art Museum
FryeArt.org
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