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Tom Cruise & Nicole Kidman by Jonathan Becker, Oscar 2000.
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OC PRIDE MONTH CHALLENGE 2023. week three: LGBTQIA+ artists. day twenty-one - june 21st.
My LGBTQIA+ OCS + Halsey's 'Badlands' Album. Halsey identifies as bisexual and uses she/they pronouns!
'And there's an old man sitting on a throne
That's saying that I probably shouldn't be so mean'
Unfortunately guys there is only so many weeks in a month, and therefore we’ve dropped AU week (although look out for a special edition of it in the valentines challenge of this year), but we are keeping our favourite LGBTQIA+ artists around! You know the drill, promote your favs with an edit/drabble to one of their songs or poems!
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Nicole Kidman by Jonathan Becker, 2000
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Nicole Kidman by Jonathan Becker, 2000
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nicole kidman by jonathan becker, 2000
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Misunderstanding
I received a note from someone who was upset I “failed to cite Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics” in my research for my work on Neil Gaiman's Chivalry and the essays I wrote about it.
I really appreciate that people want to make sure credit goes where it's due, and I have a lot of respect for Scott McCloud's accomplishment with his wonderful book.
I haven't read it myself in some years, and didn't cite it in my articles because I didn't reference it. I don't even know where my copy is so I don't know what McCloud referenced, either.
The information in my articles re: illuminated manuscripts and the Bayeux Tapestry, as well as other theories about the development of sequential art from prehistory, not only predate McCloud's work (and in fact, predate McCloud's birth,) but they are so common and so well known in comics circles that asking me to cite them seems as weird to me as asking me to cite the information that George Washington was the first President of the United States.
A part of me wonders if someone is trying to play, "Let's you and him fight."
No.
But I’m happy to bring to your attention some reading material.
Stephen Becker in his 1959 work Comic Art in America: A Social History of the Funnies, the Political Cartoons, Magazine Humor, Sporting Cartoons, and Animated Cartoons was among the first to discuss the Bayeux Tapestry as comic art. I read that book sometime in the 1980’s. I think a lot of people assume the Bayeux tapestry as comic art was McCloud’s idea, but we don’t all walk around with a reference library in our heads, so there you go. I can’t find my copy of Becker’s work to quote, but I did find an article by Arthur Asa Berger with a mention of the Bayeux Tapestry as comic art in the summer 1978 issue of The Wilson Quarterly.
My first exposure to the idea of comics as descendant of fine art was Maurice Horn’s 1976 The World Encyclopedia of Comics which was my first read re: comics history. I still have my tattered 1976 edition.
While Horn scorned the idea that tapestries and manuscripts could be comic art (see, it was a matter of discussion way back then, so much so that authors were writing snarky asides to one another about it,) he believed the origin of sequential art was in the Renaissance sketches of Leonardo da Vinci - which I think everyone now agrees is kind of a bonkers idea.
I think Horn was just intent on elevating the comic art form by hooking up with da Vinci.
You go, boi.
Comics as descendant of art on scrolls is a very common theory, the easiest to trace being in Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics by Fred Schodt published in 1983 when I was still a teenager. I can't find my copy to show examples, but this text is still in print and you can go read it for yourself.
I was introduced to manga by cartoonist Leslie Sternbergh and bought Schodt’s book at Books Kinokuniya on (I think) a trip to New York around the time of first publication of Schodt’s work. And years later took a trip to Japan with Fred Schodt and a group of cartoonists including Jeff Smith and Jules Fieffer, Nicole Hollander, and Denys Cowan as the guests of Tezuka Productions.
Here we all are.
So, I’m familiar with manga, see.
As for comics as descendant of cave paintings, hieroglyphics and ancient art in general, Will Eisner’s 1985 Comics and Sequential Art not only made all of those points, but made those points with comic art examples. Like these.
And this.
And this.
And more than a few words on this:
I find it amusing that someone is questioning why I didn’t cite McCloud when what you should probably be questioning is why more people don’t cite Eisner who produced his book eight years before McCloud published his and who is well known to have influenced McCloud.
Whatever. My book's autographed.
I also danced with Eisner. Eat your heart out.
Understanding Comics is a terrific work with huge advantages over every book (that I know of) about comics that came before: it taught comics entirely in the language of comics.
But the discussion in it about the origins of comics and my work especially re: illuminated manuscripts/tapestries, did not originate with McCloud. I research illuminated manuscripts because it’s my hobby and it informs my art.
I encourage everyone to read Understanding Comics because it is an outstanding work.
But it’s not the book that introduced me to the concepts of the development of comic art. It’s not even the point of origin of those concepts. So, there is no reason to cite it.
Also, shocking as it may seem, I occasionally come up with ideas on my own. While I'm younger than McCloud, I've actually been a comics pro longer than he has. So I've had plenty of opportunity to, you know, read things and toss things around, and decide for myself.
When I first read Chivalry and first begged Neil Gaiman to let me adapt it, my head full of the work of Alberto Sangorski and his art for Tennyson’s Le Morte D’Arthur, Understanding Comics hadn’t been published yet.
It's been a good twelve years since I last read McCloud's work, and I don't think I've spoken to him five times in the last three decades. But I'm pretty sure he never mentioned Sangorski.
I hope that clears everything up, and maybe introduces some of you to some works you might not be aware of.
Have a great day.
#understanding comics#comics history#neil gaiman#scott mccloud#chivalry#jules fieffer#tezuka productions#manga#will eisner
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Hi, I just read your book gender queer and wanted to tell you that i have never felt more seen by a book in my life (or any media for that matter). Im also genderqueer and somewhere on the aro/ace spectrum and your book put into words alot of things I’ve never known how to express. Thank you for putting yourself out there!
(also do you have any other comic book recommendations?)
Hello anon! Thank you for this kind message! I very much do have comic book recs. In no particular order, here are some favorites. Not all of these are books are queer, but many are. If you want queer specific recs, here are some other asks I've previously answered- books about nonbinary identities, nonbinary mostly fiction
Memoir/Nonfiction
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley
March Trilogy by Senator John Lewis, Nate Powell and Andrew Aydin
The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home by Nicole Georges
You & a Bike & a Road by Eleanor Davis
Tetris: The Games People Play by Box Brown
The Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott and Harmony Becker
Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls
Hey Kiddo by Jarrett Krosoczka
Almost American Girl by Robin Ha
Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang
Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir by Tyler Feder
Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada and Ko Hyung-Ju
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
Homebody by Theo Parrish
The High Desert by James Spooner
Fiction
Prince of Cats by Ronald Wimberly
This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki
Skim by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki
Seconds by Bryan Lee O’Malley
Nimona by ND Stevenson
The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
The Hard Tomorrow by Eleanor Davis
On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews
Grease Bats by Archie Bongiovanni
The Chromatic Fantasy by H.A.
Salt Magic by Hope Larson and Rebecca Mock
Beetle and the Hollowbones by Aliza Layne
Kiss Number 8 by Colleen F Venable and Ellen Crenshaw
Finder Library Vols 1 & 2 by Carla Speed McNeil
Castle Waiting: The Lucky Road by Linda Medley
The Deep and Dark Blue by Niki Smith
Across a Field of Starlight by Blue Delliquanti
O Human Star by Blue Delliquanti
Snapdragon by Kay Leyh
Cyclopedia Exotica by Aminder Dhaliwal
Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal
The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
A Frog in Fall by Lisa Sterte
Thieves by Lucie Bryon
The Great Beyond by Lea Murawiec
Short Stories
The Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects by Mike Mignola
Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales by Melanie Gillman
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the full 4 hours worth of speeches and chants before the national march even actually began to march. being there in-person was truly another experience, so i wanted to share this here so y'all could get even just a sliver of that same amazement! speeches you can listen to include:
Opening Chant
Introduction with Manolo De Los Santos
Nadya Tannous from Palestinian Youth Movement
Ahlam from Maryland2Palestine
Arsema Kifle from Dissenters
Jasmin Nicole Williams from Artists Against Apartheid
Dr. Hatem Bazian from UC Berkeley
Lauren Pineiro from the Tampa 5
Mahdi Bray from the American Muslim Alliance
Black Alliance for Peace
Melanie Yazzie from The Red Nation
Marte White from Community Movement Builders
Omar Suleiman, an American imam
Mohammed Nabulsi from Palestinian Youth Movement
Brian Becker from ANSWER Coalition
Layan Fuleihan from The People's Forum
Macklemore (yes, the muisician)
Ya'oub from the National Students for Justice in Palestine
Maysoon Abu Gharbieh from Arab Women's Committee (Chicago)
Tara Alalami, Sarah Ihmoud, and Rasha Mubarak from Palestinian Feminist Collective and Susan Sarandon
Ahmad Abuznaid from US Campaign for Palestinian Rights
Nihad Awad from Council on American-Islamic Relations
Mohammed El-Kurd, a writer
Nazek Sankari from US Palestinian Community Network
Nour Jafghama and Medea Benjamin from CODEPINK
Meredith from Anti War Committee MN
Osama Abu Irshaid from American Muslims for Palestine
Noura Erakat, a human rights attorney
Majid Gadsen from December 12 Movement
Nina from Bayan USA
Rania Mustafa from Palestinian American Community Center NJ
Krystal Two Bulls from Honor the Earth
Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss from Neturei Karta
Jonel Edwards from Dream Defenders
Raja Abdulhag from Al Quds News
Ángel from Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
Nick Tilsen from NDN Collective
Lamis Deek from Al Awda: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
Ju-Hyun Park from Nodutdol
Eugene Puryear from Party for Socialism and Liberation
Vijay Prashad from Tricontinental Institute
Celine Qussiny from Palestinian Youth Movement
as well as several interviews towards the end of the video in front of the white house! go watch! go share!
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Terry Farrell Vs. Nicole de Boer
Propaganda
Terry Farrell - (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Becker) - hnggg 6ft tall <3
Nicole de Boer - (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - I know Ezri wasn't a very popular character but I personally really liked her and think she could have really shined if she'd just had more seasons to grow as a character. Plus Nicole is so gorgeous!
Master Poll List of the Hot Vintage TV Ladies Bracket
No additional propaganda
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As I keep seeing discourse - still - about the Ted Lasso finale and nonsense like „Brett wasn‘t involved in writing that“ or „they clearly had no women writing for this show“.
a) this is literally info you can google. the writers‘ room had women during all seasons. Yes the showrunners were men so they tend to have last say and they can reject ideas. but there are several episodes where women had sole writing credit. they also had queer people on staff in the third season (idk if any of the people on staff in S1&2 identify as queer so I‘m not assuming, I just know it for sure for S3). Women on staff include Phoebe Walsh, Jamie Lee, Ashley Nicole Black, Sasha Garron, Keeley Hazell, Jane Becker, and Leann Bowen).
b) It is a writer‘s *room*. Ideas get pitched, developed, thrown around, scripts get written by one or two people then revised, up until shooting. So even where sole writing credit is given you may end up having a particular joke or line in one not actually written by the person on the script. Writing TV is a collaborative process. Of course Brett was involved in writing the finale.
Please. There‘s so much more to say here but there‘s so many uninformed takes out there and it annoys me.
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A Minnesota state senator now faces charges in connection to a burglary at a Detroit Lakes home earlier this week.
On Tuesday, the Becker County Attorney's Office charged 49-year-old Sen. Nicole Mitchell, DFL-Woodbury, with first-degree burglary.
According to police, officers were called at about 4:45 a.m. Monday to a residence off Granger Road and Long Avenue after the homeowner called 911 to report a burglary in progress.
Police say Mitchell was found inside, arrested and booked into Becker County Jail.
Mitchell burgled stepmother's home to get deceased father's things, charges say
According to the criminal complaint, the home Mitchell is accused of burgling was her stepmother's.
The stepmother called police to report someone had broken into her home. When officers arrived, the suspect — later identified as Mitchell — ran into the basement.
Mitchell was wearing black clothing and a black hat when officers found her in the basement, according to the complaint. They found a flashlight with a sock on it and a black backpack nearby. The backpack contained two laptops, a cellphone, Tupperware and identifying documents for Mitchell.
Investigators said Mitchell told them her father had recently died and her stepmother wouldn't talk to Mitchell or other family members.
"I was just trying to get a couple of my dad's things because you wouldn't talk to me anymore," Mitchell said to her stepmother during her arrest, according to the complaint.
The items Mitchell sought were "pictures, a flannel shirt, ashes, and other items of sentimental value," the complaint states.
Mitchell allegedly gave the same motive to police, also saying she had "just gotten into the house."
"Clearly I'm not good at this," she said, according to investigators, adding, "I know I did something bad."
Investigators said Mitchell got into the house through a basement window.
Police questioned Mitchell about one of the laptops found in her bag, which, when turned on, had the stepmother's name on it. She said her stepmother had given it to her, which the stepmother denied.
Mitchell is due in court at 11 a.m. Tuesday. She remains in custody.
Lawmakers speak out, calling for consequences
Mitchell is currently serving her first term as a state senator. A spokesperson for the Senate DFL Caucus said in a statement Monday they're "aware of the situation" but wouldn't comment.
Senate Minority Leader Mark Johnson, R-East Grand Forks, said in a statement he was "shocked" about the news regarding his colleague.
"The public expects Legislators to meet a high standard of conduct. As information comes out, we expect the consequences to meet the actions, both in the court of law, and in her role at the legislature," Johnson said.
Mitchell, who has also been a TV meteorologist and a commander with the Air National Guard, was elected in 2022 and is in the midst of her first term.
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Nicole Kidman by Jonathan Becker, 2000.
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OC Songs! Aidan V. Becker!~
I was tagged by the precious @tarmac-rat and the just as lovely @beammeupbroadway
I have a very chonky playlist that you can find here, but heres a handful of selections
Tremble by LPX (Also kind of my headcanon of what Aidan's singing voice sounds like)
I don't wanna tear your heart out
But I'm edging on a breakdown
I've been up and down the same route
Too afraid of the fall out
I know that we gotta quit, you just never see it
Keep holding my breath blue, how better can I show you
What can I do to cut through, falling fast but I can't move
I know that we gotta quit, you just never see it
Wish I could purge you out
I'm sick with doubt, god help me now
Two by The Antlers (prefer the acoustic version on youtube tbh)
You had a new dream, it was more like a nightmare
You were just a little kid and they cut your hair
Then they stuck you in machines, you came so close to dying
They should have listened, they thought that you were lying
Daddy was an asshole, he fucked you up
Built the gears in your head, now he greases them up
Can I Leave Me Too by The Greeting Committee
I'm scared of myself without you
I'll change my ways for a few days if it means you'll stay
I'm filthy, creepy, clingy for you always
If you go, can I go with you?
If you leave me, can I leave me too?
I'm afraid that I might need you
If you go, can I go with you?
Good Girls by CHVRCHES
Is it easier when you don't have to count to ten?
When you don't have to pretend?
I want to know that feeling
Is it easier when you don't have to start again?
When you don't want to make amends?
I want to know that feeling
Good girls don't cry
And good girls don't lie
And good girls justify but I don't
Good girls don't die
And good girls stay alive
And good girls satisfy but I won't
Fast Talk by Dawn Golden (Jackie and Aidan vibes)
And everyone who knows our name
Says that we ain't ever gonna change
They say we're born to die young
But we're trying to find a better way
They say we're born to die young
But we're trying to find a better way
Maybe heaven is a ghetto with no bad blocks
Shangri-La dealers at the bus stop
And maybe God is just a cop that we can fast talk
So if you're guilty and you know it, put your hands up
'Cause karma's just a different word for bad luck
And what if death is just another pair of handcuffs?
Then we better run
Baby Teeth by Flower Face (Johnny/Aidan vibes)
If I can't hold you like a lover I won't hold you at all
The tide is turning on you, baby, and I feel nothing anymore
If we could stay this way forever would it ever be enough?
I wear your bruises on my shoulder now forever and evermore
Your lip got split, spill grenadine kisses, the codeine kids got you down
Picking fights with the devil, you know, you've got a real smart mouth
Driving you home from the bar and you're touching my face but I don't make a sound
Hope In Hell by Black Pistol Fire (Johnny/Aidan vibes)
It's over now, you see
Keep pulling at my seams
Fuck you and the horse you rode in on
Down on my luck
But I never really had none
I soften up the blow
It only goes to show
Useless to try
Only my mind, I think you got that too
You can have it all
But how much do you wanna lose?
Dog Teeth by Nicole Dollanganger (Johnny/Aidan post bender vibes)
He handed me a pair of pliers and he told me to pull out his teeth
Because as long as he'd had them he'd use them to do bad things
You're cold on the inside
There's a dog in your heart and it tells you to tear everything apart
My body's covered in teeth marks, your bite's worse than your bark
You ruin everything you touch and destroy anyone you love, you're all over me
Sorry by Nothing But Thieves (Johnny/Aidan post bender vibes)
I broke your heart so carelessly
But made the pieces part of me
And now it hurts what we've become
'Cause you taught me how to love
It's me who taught you how to stop
And so many fucking more, I could fill a book, but here's a few
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The World in Vogue
Seven momentous decades of the namnes, the faces, and the writing that have held the public eye in The Arts Society Literature Theatre Fashion Sports Worls Affairs
Secker & Warburg, London 1963, 416 pages, 25 x 33 cm.,
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A stunning collection of 300 photographs of some of the most celebrated actors, artists, models, First Ladies, and social figures from around the world, drawing on stories from the pages of Vogue as well as never-before-published images by iconic photographers.
These trendsetters and newsmakers are captured by such famous photographers as Cecil Beaton, Jonathan Becker, Eric Boman, Horst P. Horst, Edward Steichen, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, François Halard, Helmut Newton, Stephen Meisel, Snowdon, Toni Frissell, Bruce Weber, Herb Ritts, and Annie Leibovitz. Not only did these photographers take dazzling portraits—in studios or on location—that caught these iconic figures in classic, playful, or dramatic moments but they also documented their parties, weddings, houses, and gardens. Writers like Hamish Bowles, Paul Rudnick, Truman Capote, Francis Wyndham, Jeffrey Steingarten, Joan Juliet Buck, William Norwich, Gloria Steinem, Georgina Howell, Vicki Woods, Marina Rust, Michael Specter, and Jonathan Van Meter tell you the stories behind these figures and events.
Here are the glamorous weddings of Plum Sykes in Yorkshire, Lauren Davis in Cartagena, and Minnie Cushing in Newport; Truman Capote writing about cruising the Yugoslavian coast with Lee Radziwill, Luciana Pignatelli, and the Agnellis; gardens from East Hampton to Corfu designed by landscape architect Miranda Brooks; Inès de La Fressange’s apartment in Paris; Gloria Steinem reporting on the 540 masked partygoers at the Black and White Ball Truman Capote threw for Katharine Graham at the Plaza hotel; the gardens of Valentino’s seventeenth-century Château de Wideville, outside Paris; the designers, the best-dressed, and the stars at the annual Costume Institute party at the Metropolitan Museum; Mick Jagger and his family in Mustique; Jacqueline Kennedy and Michelle Obama; Kate Moss, Madonna, Angelina Jolie, Cate Blanchett, Ali MacGraw, Anjelica Huston, Nicole Kidman, Cher, Iman and David Bowie, Penélope Cruz, Charlotte Rampling, and many more.
Richly illustrated in black-and-white and color, The World in Vogue: People, Parties, Places is a stunning look at portraits, houses, gardens, and parties of celebrated figures from many worlds.
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Nicole Kidman by Jonathan Becker, 2000.
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Nicole Kidman (as she should) at the Vanity Fair Oscar party, photographed by Jonathan Becker (2000) ✨
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