Projects tagged "comics"

Real Cost of Prisons
Practitioner:
Real Cost of Prisons
Date:
Jan 1 2000
The Real Cost of Prisons Project brings together justice activists, artists, researchers and people directly experiencing the impact of mass criminalization to work to end mass incarceration.
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Crocodile in Water, Tiger on Land
Practitioner:
Crocodile in Water, Tiger on Land
Date:
Sep 13 2011
Crocodile in Water, Tiger on Land
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Modi, A Message To You
Practitioner:
Ska Vengers
Date:
Apr 6 2014
Mode, A Message To You 
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Comics: A Graphic Record of the Here and Now
Practitioner:
multiple artists, curated by Shane Bennan, Creative Time
Date:
Jan 1 2010
Creative Time, a public art fund, invited artists to make online comics that addressed contemporary issues. Every month for two years a new artist presented their comic strip online. At the end, there were a total of 24 comic works that were archived online and also released as a publication in 2010.
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World Comics Network
Practitioner:
Sharad Sharma
Date:
Jan 1 2002
With World Comics India, the organization he started, Sharad has pioneered a cheap and easy medium for poor people to communicate meaningfully on issues that are neglected by the conventional media. While the urban elite dominates public media, the grinding day-to-day concerns of millions are rarely heard. Layers of discrimination and abuse heaped on huge numbers of people keep their problems out of sight and out of mind.
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Mueller Report Graphic Novel
Practitioner:
Barbara Slate
Date:
May 1 2019
The Mueller Report, important as it is, has not been read by most Americans. While perhaps written in more accessible language than other federal reports, there have been efforts to bring it into other formats: audio books, performances, and The Mueller Report presented in graphic novel form by Barbara Slate.
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Miles Morales
Practitioner:
Marvel Comics
Date:
Aug 1 2011
From The Huffington Post:
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If I Don't Get Pants Nobody Gets Pants
Practitioner:
Theamat aka Cynthia Sousa
Date:
Mar 15 2015
Submission for The Line is Drawn, theme "Male superheroes see how the other side lives". Wonder Woman makes the rest of the JLA wear various costumes she's had over the years.
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Unemployed Man Is the Unofficial Superhero of Occupy Wall Street
Practitioner:
Gan Golan
Date:
Oct 31 2011
Unemployed Man and his costumed colleagues stormed Wall Street on Monday morning, bringing some superhero street theater — and a 16-foot evil robot known as the Slot Bot — to the Occupy protests in New York.The Superheroes versus Economic Supervillains smackdown was staged by Gan Golan, 37, co-author of the 2010 graphic novel The Adventures of
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