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25th-Mar-2008 03:12 pm - Kate Beaton's historical goodness
http://katebeaton.com/Site/Welcome.html

so the author of Dresden Codak pointed out this page in the notes to the latest comic. and i gotta say, there's some awesomeness going on here. she's also on LJ as [info]beatonna.



( more of my favs )
25th-Dec-2007 11:02 pm - a tale of two jesuses



23rd-Dec-2007 05:00 pm - Hindu Comix
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17187840

Bangalore, India: To many Americans, the name evokes call centers and colorless office parks, anonymous places to which U.S. companies export work. But in a building on a quiet residential street downtown, an army of Indian animators is working to export their culture to the rest of the world. Their source material: The elaborate pantheon of Hindu mythology.

"In every state of India we've got, like, about a hundred different gods," says Neha Bajaj, an editor at the fledgling Virgin Comics. "'Cause everybody believes in a different god; they've got their own idol, and every idol is given its own name in every village. It's vast — and it's amazing!"

Less than two years old, Virgin Comics has already published dozens of titles, with names like Sadhu, Ramayan, Uma and Kali. All of them are classic figures, and the staff here knows these stories from childhood.

You're definitely not going to find guys in capes and tights in a Virgin comic. Devarajan got the idea for the company when he was working in India with Marvel Comics. He worked on a version of Spider-Man rooted in a Hindu myth — a title he says was successful enough, for what it was.

"But you know, at the end of the day what we really wanted to do was create our own properties that really could stand at the forefront of the world, and really could champion a lot of this young, dynamic Indian creativity," Devarajan says.

"The way the Indian mind unfortunately has been trained in the last two decades is to emulate the best of the West," Chopra says. "Because it's been built upon an outsourcing model, so we do a tremendous amount of unlearning." When artists first arrive at Virgin, they are used to repressing their own culture, says illustrator Jeevam Kang. Then, "it's like letting loose a nuke."

"Suddenly you are allowed to do anything you want," Kang says. "You can't handle that kind of freedom all of a sudden. So it takes about three to four months of time to adjust."

Virgin has more movies in the works, and the company is animating a massive, multiplayer, online video game based on a Hindu myth for Sony. The model for many here, says editor Bajaj, is manga, the comic-book form that mixed Western graphic-novel styles with Japanese cultural traditions.
16th-Apr-2007 03:34 pm - our very own Nixon

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