WORKS
1,000,000 A.D.
Although the world of today is largely the result of the devastating wars of yesterday, war is now obsolete. So is disease, as well as the very notion of death. That’s right, death was conquered by science thousands of years ago. Exactly how long ago though, no one really knows for sure. For there is nothing by which time can be measured. No Sun or Moon, no day or night. There is no yesterday or tomorrow, no yesteryear or next year.
People live in a forever state of now, because people no longer die, and they are no longer born. They no longer breed, nor do they understand sex. For what would the purpose of creating new people be, if no one died anymore?
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INTERVIEWS
Ann Nocenti
You know Ann. I've mentioned her multiple times in previous Frequencies. Well, she's got a new graphic novel with David Aja coming out from Berger Books/Dark Horse, the new line launched by ex-Vertigo editor Karen Berger. So I did a little Q&A with Annie on her upcoming book, THE SEEDS, and what it's like to collaborate with David Aja who I can tell is taking a stylistic turn with this project, channeling a bit from the stark stencil aesthetics commonly seen in street-art.
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TALKS
Colgate University
Every so often I still get invited to corrupt young impressionable minds, sometimes in person, and sometimes virtually. This is from a roundtable at Colgate University for a class helmed by Dr. Amanda Rogers. It was mostly a Q&A, centered around art, activism, and revolution. The kind of talks I am somewhat squeamish about being part of now that I find myself exceedingly drifting into post-activist status. But if you look closely, you can still see the face of an American generation convincingly transformed forever, har har.
(Psst, Amanda, keep an eye on those students still using good ol' pen and paper. They're going places, you'll see.)
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EXHIBITS
Magic City: Stockholm
MAGIC CITY opened in Stockholm a couple days ago. Here, take a dizzying super-quick tour.
Open until April 08, 2018, with workshops, screenings and events throughout. Deets here.
(Sorry, no plans on being there in person.)
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TRAVELS
Beirut + Dubai
Beirut: Nov. 27 – Dec. 13
Dubai: Dec. 17 – Jan. 1
If you're an artist/writer/musician of some sort and in any of the above locations during that time, feel free to hit me up.
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- LUNA RING – proposal for a "solar belt" around the Moon's equator to beam microwaves down to conversion facilities on Earth in a quest for the promised utopia of unlimited renewable energy. And here I thought THE SOLAR GRID was just about the most idiotic premise for an unlikely dystopia anyone could possibly imagine.
- LAAB – a comics tabloid on identity and pop culture by Ron Wimberly together with Beehive Books. This... looks awesome.
- COLONIAL TALES by Alessandro Spina – a collection of short stories translated by André Naffis-Sahely, dealing with Italian colonial history in North Africa, from Darf Publishers.
- Fascinating photo-essay by photographer extraordinaire, David Degner, for National Geographic: THE 'MIRACLES' OF MODERN DAY EGYPT
- "Big void" identified in Egypt's Great Pyramid – My favorite part in the article is this quote by Mehdi Tayoubi:
"Right now it's just a big difference; it's an anomaly. But we need more of a focus on it especially in a day and age when we can no longer go blasting our way through the pyramid with gunpowder as [British] Egyptologist Howard Vyse did in the early 1800s."
Also: scanning the pyramid was done using "Muography", which "makes use of the shower of high-energy particles that rain down on the Earth's surface from space."
- Jordan Peele set to reboot THE TWILIGHT ZONE for CBS. This is excellent! I hope comix and magazines see a resurgence in the anthology format as is television.
- "[Superheroes] at the end of the day can be fairly described as white supremacist dreams of the master race." – Alan Moore, saying it like it is on Arte Creative.
- As per Yumna's query in last week's Restricted Frequency, here are some of the suggestions I've gotten from readers for comix with strong female leads (that aren't corporately-produced superhero trash):
WICKED + DIVINE – Twelve gods incarnated as ultimate pop stars sets up the premise for an ambitious 21st century zeitgeist about celebrity and fame in a fame-saturation world.
PRETTY DEADLY – Death's daughter rides the wind on a horse made of smoke. Part Western, part mythological folktale, its a dark, violent, and gut-wrenching ride about... not entirely sure.
SAGA – When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe. (This one, I've read. I would say that it starts off strong, and is incredibly crafted, with brilliant humor in all the right parts and an addictive page-turning adventure of incredible real world relevance. But then by around, say, Volume 5, it begins to weaken as it loses sight of its core impetus and gives way to soap operatic story tracks as it needlessly drags on. Still very much worth a read whether or not you end up dropping it.)
BITCH PLANET – A woman's failure to comply with her patriarchal overlords will result in exile to the meanest penal planet in the galaxy. When the newest crop of fresh femmes arrive, can they work together to stay alive or will hidden agendas, crooked guards, and the deadliest sport on (or off!) Earth take them to their maker? Perhaps a little too on the nose, but, powerful, outrageous, and important feminist badassery especially in the exceedingly apparent misogynist world we live in.
NIMONA – National Book Award finalist, started out as a webcomic before going to print. What at first sight might seem like a funny fantasy comic ends up subverting tropes of good vs. evil while managing to deliver some poignant criticisms on modern (capitalist) society and its class system.
SERENITY ROSE – Goth story about witchcraft on the surface but actually a coming-of-age story tackling magic, alienation, mental illness, fighting monsters (human, internal and supernatural) and more.
Thank you Lucy, Julian, and Rembrand.
- And, guess who gets to see free movies in the best movie theater in all of Colorado?
A lovely gift from the incomparable film critic and theater manager Walter Chaw.
Thank you, Walter. This card will keep me sane this year, no joke.
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