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Robyn E. Kenealy
Robyn E. Kenealy (born 1983) is a comic book artist and organiser in the New Zealand art communities. She is based in Wellington and had a role in establishing the 91 Aro St Gallery, organising the New Zealand Comics Weekend and the Eric Awards. Kenealy's early works, ''Influenza in Wellington'' and ''Love Ain't Easy'', were predominantly autobiographical comics. Her later work, ''Roddy's Film Companion'' (a biography of the film actor Roddy McDowall), marks a distinct shift from this style. Although ''Roddy's Film Companion'' is biographical, it is also fictional and frequently acknowledges the limitations of 'truth' and 'fact' in historical research. These themes are continued in ''Steve Rogers' American Captain'', an autobiographical comic told from the perspective of Captain America's alter-ego. Roddy's Film Companion From 2005 to 2011, Kenealy produced Roddy's Film Companion, a semi-fictional/biographical comic about the life of the actor Roddy McDowall, whose most well-know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand People
New Zealanders ( mi, Tāngata Aotearoa), colloquially known as Kiwis (), are people associated with New Zealand, sharing a common history, culture, and language (New Zealand English). People of various ethnicities and national origins are citizens of New Zealand, governed by its nationality law. Originally composed solely of the indigenous Māori, the ethnic makeup of the population has been dominated since the 19th century by New Zealanders of European descent, mainly of English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish ancestry, with smaller percentages of other European and Middle Eastern ancestries such as Greek, Turkish, Italian, Lebanese and other Arab, German, Dutch, Scandinavian, South Slavic and Jewish, with Western European groups predominating. Today, the ethnic makeup of the New Zealand population is undergoing a process of change, with new waves of immigration, higher birth rates and increasing interracial marriage resulting in the New Zealand population of Mā ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How Green Was My Valley (film)
''How Green Was My Valley'' is a 1941 American Drama (film and television), drama film set in Wales, directed by John Ford. The film, based on the best-selling 1939 How Green Was My Valley, novel of the same name by Richard Llewellyn, was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and scripted by Philip Dunne (writer), Philip Dunne. It stars Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, and a very young Roddy McDowall. It tells the story of the Morgans, a hard-working Wales, Welsh mining family, from the point of view of the youngest child Huw, who lives with his affectionate and kind parents as well as his sister and five brothers, in the South Wales Valleys during the late Victorian era. The story chronicles life in the South Wales coalfields, the loss of that way of life and its effects on the family. The fictional village in the film is based on Gilfach Goch,(February 7, 200"How Green Was My Valley" BBC Radio Wales. Retrieved August 20, 2019. where Llewellyn spent many summers vis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chester Brown
Chester William David Brown (born 16 May 1960) is a Canadian cartoonist. Brown has gone through several stylistic and thematic periods. He gained notice in alternative comics circles in the 1980s for the surreal, scatological '' Ed the Happy Clown'' serial. After bringing ''Ed'' to an abrupt end, he delved into confessional autobiographical comics in the early 1990s and was strongly associated with fellow Toronto-based cartoonists Seth and Joe Matt, and the contemporary autobiographical comics trend. Two graphic novels came from this period: ''The Playboy'' (1992) and ''I Never Liked You'' (1994). Surprise mainstream success in the 2000s came with ''Louis Riel'' (2003), a historical-biographical graphic novel about rebel Métis leader Louis Riel. '' Paying for It'' (2011) drew controversy as a polemic in support of decriminalizing prostitution, a theme he explored further with '' Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus'' (2016), a book of adaptations of stories from the Bible that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberta Gregory
Roberta Gregory (born May 7, 1953) at the . is an American writer and artist best known for the character Bitchy Bitch from her series ''''. She is a prolific contributor to many feminist and underground anthologies, such as '' |
Peter Bagge
Peter Bagge (pronounced , as in ''bag''; born December 11, 1957) is an People of the United States, American cartoonist whose best-known work includes the comics ''Hate (comics), Hate'' and ''Neat Stuff''. His stories often use black humor and exaggerated cartooning to dramatize the reduced expectations of American middle class, middle-class American youth. He won two Harvey Awards in 1991, one for best cartoonist and one for his work on ''Hate''. In recent decades Bagge has done more fact-based comics, everything from biographies to history to comics journalism. Publishers of Bagge's articles, illustrations, and comics include suck.com, ''MAD Magazine'', toonlet, ''Discover (magazine), Discover'', and the ''Weekly World News'', with the comic strip ''Bat Boy (character), Adventures of Batboy''. He has expressed his Libertarianism, libertarian views in features for ''Reason (magazine), Reason''. Early life Peter Bagge was born in Peekskill, New York, and grew up in the New York Cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birchville Cat Motel
Birchville Cat Motel is a one-man experimental music project formed by Campbell Kneale from Wellington, New Zealand. Although largely unrecognised by the mainstream press and public in his home country, Kneale has toured throughout Japan, America, Europe, and Australia. His first vinyl release was ''Jewelled Wings'' on the Freedom From label. Many of Kneale's rare and out of print recordings have been reissued recently on a 6cdr collection entitled ''Chaos Steel Skeletons''. Kneale operates the labels Celebrate Psi Phenomenon and Battlecruiser which have issued CDs by artists from New Zealand and overseas, including Matthew Bower (under the name Mirag) and Simon Wickham-Smith with recent releases by Richard Youngs and Alex Neilson and one involving Tony Conrad. Kneale has used Birchville Cat Motel as a vehicle for many collaborations with other musicians, including Lee Ranaldo, Neil Campbell, and Bruce Russell. He also records under the names Black Boned Angel, Brilliant S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tame Iti
Tame may refer to: *Taming, the act of training wild animals *River Tame, Greater Manchester *River Tame, West Midlands and the Tame Valley *Tame, Arauca, a Colombian town and municipality *Tame (song), "Tame" (song), a song by the Pixies from their 1989 album ''Doolittle'' *TAME (IATA code: EQ), flag carrier of Ecuador *tert-Amyl methyl ether, an oxygenated chemical compound often added to gasoline. *Tame.it, a context search engine for Twitter *Tame, a variety of the Idi language of Papua New Guinea *Tame (surname), people with the surname *Tame Impala, the psychedelic music project of Australian multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker (musician), Kevin Parker. {{disambig, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 New Zealand Raids
The 2007 New Zealand police raids were a series of armed police raids conducted on 15 and 16 October 2007, in response to alleged paramilitary training camps in the Urewera mountain range near the town of Ruatoki. About 300 police, including members of the Armed Offenders Squad and Special Tactics Group, were involved in the raids, which involved the execution of search warrants at various addresses throughout New Zealand, and the establishment of roadblocks at Ruatoki and Tāneatua. The police seized four guns and 230 rounds of ammunition and arrested eighteen people. According to police, the raids were a culmination of more than a year of surveillance that uncovered and monitored the training camps. The police were investigating potential breaches of the Terrorism Suppression Act. On 8 November 2007 the Solicitor-General, David Collins, declined to press charges under that legislation. Collins later described the legislation as "incoherent and unworkable", and said it was al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darren Schroeder
Darren Phillip Schroeder (born 27 August 1967 in Christchurch, New Zealand) is a Small Press editor, critic, stand-up comedian, and comics creator. He is best known for founding the Register of New Zealand Comics', editing the Small press section of the ''Comics Bulletin'' website and as long-standing editor of the Funtime Comics anthology Funtime Comics Presents. He also creates his own popular semi-autobiographical mini comic Mopy' Biography Darren Schroeder is a pākehā from Christchurch, New Zealand who is now living in Devon, England. He learnt to read through exposure to Donald Duck comics, and later on the work of Keith Giffen on Justice League International inspired him to return to his comic reading habit. His interest turned to locally produced comics, and even though they were done on a small scale he thought they were just as good, if not better, than most of the imported stuff he encountered. Editorship at Funtime Comics He became involved in the New Zealand co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York (magazine)
''New York'' is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, and with a particular emphasis on New York City. Founded by Milton Glaser and Clay Felker in 1968 as a competitor to ''The New Yorker'', it was brasher and less polite, and established itself as a cradle of New Journalism. Over time, it became more national in scope, publishing many noteworthy articles on American culture by writers such as Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Nora Ephron, John Heilemann, Frank Rich, and Rebecca Traister. In its 21st-century incarnation under editor-in-chief Adam Moss, "The nation's best and most-imitated city magazine is often not about the city—at least not in the overcrowded, traffic-clogged, five-boroughs sense", wrote then-'' Washington Post'' media critic Howard Kurtz, as the magazine increasingly published political and cultural stories of national significance. Since its redesign and relaunch in 2004, the magazine has won more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Kochalka
James Kochalka (born May 26, 1967, in Springfield, Vermont) is an American comic book artist, writer, animator, and rock musician. His comics are noted for their blending of the real and the surreal. Largely autobiographical, Kochalka's cartoon expression of the world around him includes such real-life characters as his wife, children, cat, friends and colleagues, but always filtered through his own observations and flights of whimsy. In March 2011 he was declared the cartoonist laureate of Vermont, serving a term of three years. Early life and early career Kochalka grew up in Springfield, Vermont. He attended the Maryland Institute College of Art and has an MFA in painting. His first published comics work was around 1994. He has cited by cartoonist Daniel Clowes as being a key inspiration in leading him "towards a whole world of comics that enever knew existed." Kochalka strongly believes that simplicity is desirable in comics and says that "craft is the enemy", and has had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Splendor
''American Splendor'' is a series of autobiographical comic books written by Harvey Pekar and drawn by a variety of artists. The first issue was published in 1976 and the last one in September 2008, with publication occurring at irregular intervals (Pekar died in 2010). Publishers were, at various times, Harvey Pekar himself, Dark Horse Comics, and DC Comics. The comics have been adapted into a film of the same name and a number of theatrical productions. Origins Despite comic books in the United States being traditionally the province of fantasy-adventure and other genre stories, Pekar felt that the medium could be put to wider use: Pekar's philosophy of the potential of comics is also expressed in his often repeated statement that "comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures". In an interview with ''Walrus Comix'', Pekar described how the idea of producing his own comic book developed. In 1972 when Crumb was visiting him in Cleveland, Peka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
