Highlighting for Students the Process of Writing Comics
Speaking about writing Black Panther for Marvel back in 2016, Ta-Nehisi Coates, when asked about the challenges of writing comics, responded by saying, “It’s a very backwards — in my mind — process of writing. I mean, it’s the process of…
THE TRAMP'S NEW WORLD* by James Agee A. SHORTEST POSSIBLE OUTLINE OF STORY Without warning, a super-atomic Bomb is dropped, which outdoes the grandest expectations of those who set it off. All life on the planet, human and subhuman, is instantly exterminated, so far as we can tell; so, of course, is the Power by which civilization had been run. But there is one survivor, the Tramp. In a long solo he wanders the absolute desolation of New York (or some huge "in-ternationalized" metropolis), examining civilization as it looked in the fraction of a second before it ceased to live. When this last living creature on earth (so far as we know) is on the verge of dying, of pure loneliness, awesome horror, and meaninglessness, he discovers in quick succession two good, all-redeeming reasons to be alive: an almost newborn baby, which he tries to take care of; then a young woman (not the baby's mother). Transfigured now with an abounding energy and hopefulness, the Tramp and the Girl improvise, any of the broken relics of the slain civilization, the first human shelter, and build the first fire in the new-born world whose human symbol is the baby. They are a kind of Adam-and-Eve, Holy Family Robinson, and tnis is the high point of hope, peace, beauty and joy in the picture: the largest and smallest unit of which something like thorough good and happiness can be hoped: the family. However as we now beain to learn, there are other survivors. The first ordinary, solid man to impinge on the Tramp's little family, immediately settles the Tramp's hash with the girl. From then on the Tramp is just a combination baby-sitter Agee's fragmentary draft holograph manuscript for his Chaplin screenplay, held at The Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, was untitled and named to in this text as The Tramp's New World. posthumously. The newly discovered, complete, typed manuscript
It’s in the “Chaplin and Agee” book.
As well, @jeffsharlet.bsky.social check your dms.
THE TRAMP'S NEW WORLD* by James Agee A. SHORTEST POSSIBLE OUTLINE OF STORY Without warning, a super-atomic Bomb is dropped, which outdoes the grandest expectations of those who set it off. All life on the planet, human and subhuman, is instantly exterminated, so far as we can tell; so, of course, is the Power by which civilization had been run. But there is one survivor, the Tramp. In a long solo he wanders the absolute desolation of New York (or some huge "in-ternationalized" metropolis), examining civilization as it looked in the fraction of a second before it ceased to live. When this last living creature on earth (so far as we know) is on the verge of dying, of pure loneliness, awesome horror, and meaninglessness, he discovers in quick succession two good, all-redeeming reasons to be alive: an almost newborn baby, which he tries to take care of; then a young woman (not the baby's mother). Transfigured now with an abounding energy and hopefulness, the Tramp and the Girl improvise, any of the broken relics of the slain civilization, the first human shelter, and build the first fire in the new-born world whose human symbol is the baby. They are a kind of Adam-and-Eve, Holy Family Robinson, and tnis is the high point of hope, peace, beauty and joy in the picture: the largest and smallest unit of which something like thorough good and happiness can be hoped: the family. However as we now beain to learn, there are other survivors. The first ordinary, solid man to impinge on the Tramp's little family, immediately settles the Tramp's hash with the girl. From then on the Tramp is just a combination baby-sitter Agee's fragmentary draft holograph manuscript for his Chaplin screenplay, held at The Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, was untitled and named to in this text as The Tramp's New World. posthumously. The newly discovered, complete, typed manuscript version is referred
It’s in the “Chaplin and Agee” book.
That’s how their correspondence and friendship started. 2/
Hugh Davis. There’s a book on Agee and Chaplin, saw it on his shelf. He told me Agee sent Chaplin a script for the Tramp character, a script about the Tramp being the last person alive after a nuclear blast. Chaplin told him he’d moved on from the character but that the script was good. 1/
Talking to chair and had no clue that Agee and Chaplin were friends.
Need to read him. Our department chair is an Agee scholar and has mentioned some texts I should read.
Seriously, Don McGregor & Billy Graham’s “Jungle Action” #16 is one of the best examples of the beauty of comics.
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That’s the point — if we are aware of the scenarios and we are ready to mock and block, these stunts can be deterred or turned against Trump. One of them just failed hard in Hungary — because people were ready!
Justify genocide. Ultimately, @timothysnyder.bsky.social point about statelessness & the removal of citizenship & state structure as precursors to the Holocaust stand out. The US, even in the South, didn’t experience this, but the ways that the state constructed Blacks as non-citizens fits. 2/
Cover of BLACK EARTH THE HOLOCAUST AS HISTORY AND WARNING by TIMOTHY SNYDER
Just finished @timothysnyder.bsky.social “Black Earth: The Holocaust as History & Warning.” A lot to digest, but one thing that stands out to help me with my own work looking at the intersections between Jim Crow US & Nazi Germany in literature & art is how the use of blame employed to 1/
Nah, I’m good.
Well @yallaintrightco.bsky.social & I were off last week, but we're back diving into the numerous moments where this administration has invoked Jesus and the resurrection in various blasphemous ways. As well, we dive into the morality of Pulp Fiction.
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Today is the 79th anniversary of a Jackie Robinson’s debut in the @mlb.com for the Brooklyn Dodgers @losangelesdodgers.bsky.social
I wrote this on the 70th anniversary. @americanstudier.bsky.social
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How does Ta-Nehisi Coates incorporate Audre Lorde’s “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”? @markanthonyneal.bsky.social
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How does Ta-Nehisi Coates incorporate Audre Lorde’s “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”? @markanthonyneal.bsky.social
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With everything going on, it's this type of morning. @bradleyonishi.bsky.social
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Book cover with photo of writer Lillian Smith. Title is An Inconvenient Woman.
Make sure you put this on your reading list. Forthcoming from @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social
Erika Kirk and JD Vance are drawing like WCW in 2001
Instead of giving up, what do you do when you care?: Gun Violence in “Dead Boy Detectives”
Last January, I picked up the G.I. Joe Compendium Volume 1, which contains the first fifty issues of the series from March 1982 to May 1986. As a kid, I didn’t collect comics, but when I saw a G.I. Joe comic…
You know what would also help her afford her husband's cancer treatments? UNIVERSAL FUCKING HEALTH CARE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST HOW IS THIS GODDAMN COUNTRY STILL LIKE THIS MAYBE GRANDMA SHOULDN"T HAVE TO DELIVER FOOD LIKE A TEENAGER IF WE HAD A DECENT FUCKING SOCIETY!!!!!!!!!!
An important step towards a deeper analysis of the Black Panther comic, its narrative history, and African political geography. #WakandaSyllabus
One of the most engaging aspects of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Black Panther” is how the series deals with questions of conquest and violence enacted upon individuals. Seems relevant for this moment. @walterdgreason.bsky.social @julianchambliss.bsky.social
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Really been enjoying teaching Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Black Panther” run. So much to unpack. Here is more on Coates’s run and John Locke’s “Treatise on Government.”
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The Search for Nothing Amidst Everything
Esperaba que alguna vez. Nada puede durar tanto, no existe ningún recuerdo por intenso que sea que no se apague. I woke up alone in Puerto Vallarta. My mouth dry. My body sore. My senses numb. I heard the waves crashing against the rocks and receding back…
Cover of Joe Posnanski’s “Why We Love Baseball”
Trying to keep sane with everything going on & reading, @joeposnanski.com “Why We Love Baseball” and looking up the plays/moments online. His chapter on Sid Bream brought to mind my exuberance at that moment and calling my grandfather, waking him up, as my dad got mad at me for calling. 😂
What Music Have I Been Listening to Lately?
Recently, I’ve written about music and the fetishization of Asian women, about the Dead Kennedys’ debut album Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, and about some of my favorite music from 1995, but it’s been a few months since I’ve written about some of…
A puppy looking at you from monkey grass
A dog laying on its back on the couch
A dog staring at you with a side eye
A dog sleeping
Today is Bergen’s birthday! I know how he’ll be celebrating, sleeping as @yallaintrightco.bsky.social works.
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