Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Comics
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Another comic to add to the religion and spirituality in comics collection. The Rabbi’s Cat is a comic from French creator Joann Sfar that engages in discussions about theology, philosophy and love from the perspective of, strangely enough, a rabbi’s cat whose acquired the power to speak. See Pantheon Graphic Novels: The Rabbi’s Cat. Related…
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A couple for recent Green Lantern links for all you fanboys and girls out there: Instructables: How to make a Green Lantern ring (including a glowing version!) Jim Kingman: Comic Effect @ SBC: Blackest Nights, Brightest Days: On Being a Green Lantern Fan
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Firstly, a (mini) colloquium on Media and Religious Authority on Tuesday, which included some of the Virtual Theology colloquium participants from a while back, along with Heidi Campbell. A good time to catch up with people, to meet Heidi in person for the first time, and to start to thrash out some ideas I’m interested…
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A related link as I toss around some ideas about comic books, graphic novels and religious authority. See Bird, Plane or SuperMensch? Jews and Superheroes Share a Rich History on Wired’s site which interviews Danny Fingeroth, author of “Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society” and “Disguised As…
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A list of 74 Comic Book Adaptation Movies since 1978 rated by box office takings. How many of you knew that movies like “Road to Perdition” started off as comic books?
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Books on the go at the moment. Writing at the Edge of the Universe Published by Canterbury University Press (2003), it’s a collection of essays, interviews, reflections and talks from the ‘Creative Writing in New Zealand’ Conference. Covers everything from politics, young adults fiction, comics, hypertext, and definitions of ‘cultural’ within the NZ writing scene.…
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Received a copy of The Manga Bible – Raw in the post this week via Conrad. The artwork falls within animé genre, though with Western influences – think Ghost in the Shell imagery, rather than the large-eyed young girl and boy Pokémon style – and is particularly effective, I think, in conveying both the humanity…
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Superman beware, kryptonite is real – Natural History Museum.
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Listening yesterday to the Thursday arts slot with Lynne Freeman on Radio New Zealand National : Afternoons : Thu, 28 June and they had an interview with Johnny Angel, a graphic artist and writer creating a superhero comic series based around Polynesian characters. (Audio here for the next 6 days or so). Sounded like an…
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Artistic interpretation of the Bible and its contents is as old as the stories themselves. From decorations in places of worship, to imaginative storytelling, through to icons, paintings, flannelgraphs(!) and sculpture, artists have sought to bring their interpretation of the stories to life. And recently, there’s been an increased production of related-material in the comic…