The Ephemerist

I’d been reading Dan Zettwoch’s journal (Zettwoch’s Suitcase) for a while (and blogged about his Festivus poster) when I met him a couple of weeks ago in Angoulème. He was working at the Buenaventura Press table in the small press tent.

It was awesome to watch him draw and write on scraps of cardboard while standing up, or sitting down, or leaning against the table, all the while chatting with people passing by. And the results are great as well (there’s more on his blog) :

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The Poetry Foundation has added a new feature to their website : Poetry as comic strip. Cartoonists are invited to interpret poems from the Foundation’s archive, which boasts more than 4500 poems.

First up is David Heatley with a comic strip based on Diane Wakoski’s 1966 poem “Belly Dancer.” The result is published on the website, and is also downloadable as a high resolution PDF file.

I think this is a great initiative, not only because it opens up poetry for new audiences (I’m not a poetry man myself), but more importantly because it offers a new and exciting (and hopefully recurring) venue for comic artists. To be continued ?

(via Flog)

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These ads were all published in the early fifties, when the funny papers still were funny. That said, I have a slight feeling that these examples are funny predominantly because they are a bit old-fashioned. It sure was a different time.

I work in advertising myself, and it sometimes is quite refreshing to see ads that simply tell the story they want to tell, without any wisecracks or “interesting new” takes to the matter. At least things seemed easier then…

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