Culture and Trump: A free comic offers artist ‘Resist!’-ance at the Hammer Museum
On the weekend of Donald Trump's inauguration, the Hammer Museum offers a tabloid newspaper of comic
The free publication, titled RESIST! was published by Desert Island Comics and distributed at comic book shops, arts centers, and protest marches across the country.
"Stacked in piles around the Hammer Museum on Friday was a 40-page tabloid newspaper of comic art by women of all ages, creeds and races reacting to the presidential election of Donald Trump.
An inky black illustration by artist Sue Coe shows Trump in the shape of a tornado ripping the constitution apart. Another by Kim Johnson-Husu shows a bird perched on a sharp piece of concertina wire. And a full-page piece by Alison Bechdel, the comic artist behind the award-winning graphic memoir “Fun Home” that became the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, shows groups of friends grappling with the results of the election.
The publication is titled “Resist!” and it was edited by New Yorker art director Françoise Mouly — the co-founder of the famed ’80s-era comics magazine “Raw” — and her daughter Nadja Spiegelman. It is published by Desert Island Comics in New York City, and over the course of the inauguration weekend, 20,000 copies will be distributed for free at comic book shops, arts centers and protest marches."— Carolina Miranda, January 21, 2017
Read the full article at the Los Angeles Times website.