The Raven is a central creative figure in our narratives. The bird contains the widest range of folly and indulgence and in this way allows us all not to take ourselves so seriously. Below is the Bear, Taan. He is the father by union with a woman of two children who finally reject thier mother’s home for the magnificence of their father’s forest. Taan guun the bear is our younger sibling, just like in Korea.
Zep was Last Years’ (2004) President of Europe’s Gold Standard festival of Comic Books held every January in Angouleme, France
Hugo Pratt (1927-1995)
“Italian artist, cartoonist, whose best-known character is the existentialist adventurer, captain Corto Maltese. (Hugo Pratts’s) journeys around the world are followed from his youth to the 1930s, when Corto disappears in the turmoils of the Spanish Civil War. Pratt’s own travels mark his work, in which his hero’s alienation from a dull, ordinary world is underlined by the strange, remote surroundings, or as the famous American cartoonist Frank Miller wrote: “His drawings show an attention to, and familiarity with, exotic detail, far beyond what could be gleaned from a shelf full of National Geographic magazines. There is nothing stolen, or even borrowed, in Pratt’s work; even his sense of humor seems to come from preposterous experience.” (from Voodoo for the President, 1986) ”
source: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hugoprat.htm
Pulitzer Prize-winning Illustrator,
Author of Maus and Maus II
“Art Spiegelman has almost single-handedly brought comic books out of the toy closet and onto the literature shelves. In 1992 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his masterful Holocaust narrative Maus — which portrayed Jews as mice and Nazis as cats. Maus II continued the remarkable story of his parents’ survival of the Nazi regime and their lives later in America. His comics are best known for their shifting graphic styles, their formal complexity, and controversial content.”
Source: http://www.barclayagency.com/spiegelman.html
illustration of Spiegelman on stage at Angolueme 2005
