The Spanish blog Recortables shares papercraft models with political criticism, created by Sento Llobell, comics illustrator, and Toni Vaca, "speciallist on wasting time". There are papercraft caricatures of George W. Bush - El Carnicero Global, the king of Spain Juan Carlos I - El Campechano, Bin Laden - Ex-guerrero de la C.I.A., the pope Bendicto XVI and few others.They are available to download directly, as zip archive, or using eMule. (via Paper Forest)
Morning Sun: a film and a website about Cultural Revolution. A very interesting site with full of information of the Cultural Revolution and its changes in the Chinese culture, with articles, photographs, posters, paintings, artwork, artifacts, audio, badges, videos, suggestions of links and books.
A range of techniques and perspectives are used in the Morning Sun website to reflect on the origins and history of the Cultural Revolution (c.1964-1976). We approach the period not from a simplistic linear perspective, but from a panoptic one, encompassing a broad overview while allowing the user to focus in on individual histories, narratives and events that reveal the complex contradictory forces that led to an era of unrivalled revolutionary fervor and political turmoil.
Related posts:
Chinese Pamphlets
Chinese Pop Posters
Chinese Public Health Posters
Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages
Vintage Chinese Propaganda Posters
To celebrate Martin Luther King Day the blog of Internet Archive did a selection of videos and audio recordings with him. The FlickrBlog also made a homage, pointing to the photos in the Martin Luther King clusters.
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Center for the Study of Political Graphics has a huge collection with over 50,000 posters, the largest collection of Post World War II graphics in the US. The Center for the Study of Political Graphics collects, preserves, and exhibits posters relating to historical and contemporary movements for social change. They also organize travelling exhbitions by themes like ecology, labor movement, black panther party USA, human rights, political prisioners, sexism and homophobia, international women's liberation, the war against children, and more. (via El Burlador)
Seventeen Moments in Soviet History. The history from 1917, when the Bolsheviks seize power (The October Revolution), until 1991, with the End of the Soviet Union. A lot of additional information through videos, texts, images, music, audio, photo essays and links.
And since we are talking about Soviet History visit also Soviet Posters: Soviet Propaganda Poster Gallery. This terrific site has Soviet posters and greeting cards of new year, Christmas, Red Army, Mother's Day, WW2, May Day, Revolution, sports, advertisements, women rights, labour, vintage, anti alcohol, Stalin, elections, Olympics 1980 and designed by Kukryniksy. (via Martin Klasch)
What Barry Says: an animated short film directed by Simon Robson produced by Knife Party, where you can find more information about it . What Barry Says is very much a response to Simon witnessing his peers apparent lack of interest in the anti-war marches between the attack on Afghanistan and the second Golf War. Many young Londoners seemed to feel that they could do nothing to stop the attack on Iraq, so why bother. You can watch also on AtomFilms or on Wimp. (via MetaFilter)
Back from the Depths: a memorial site to Scream!, a horror and humorous comics that stopped after only 15 issues before its untimely death in June 84. The stories, artwork and characters are buried deep in the cartoon graveyard but the comic's cult status ensures it will live forever! (via
Big Little Books. Represented in the exhibit are some of the best known American and British comic book, radio program, movie title, and children's classics characters from the 1930s and 40s, including Dick Tracy, Buck Rogers, Mickey Mouse, Little Orphan Annie, Louisa M. Alcott's Little Men, Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, Flash Gordon, The Lone Ranger, The G-Man, Li'l Abner, Little Miss Muffet, Popeye the Sailor, Tarzan, Donald Duck, Gene Autry, Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Wimpy, the hamburger eater.. (via BibliOdyssey)
Cambodian Comics: Cambodia's arts scene includes a small but diverse comics industry. Tales range from historical drama to slapstick comedy. (via PCL)
Captain Canuck: a homage site to one of the greatest Canadian Super-heroes of all time. The history of the comics, the characters, cover gallery, images and more stuff.
Comic Art Collective - Original comic art from top artists. A gallery with more than forty artists for fans to view and buy original art directly from their favourite alternative comix artists.
Datajunkie is an excellent place to find covers and scanned images of vintage comic books, paperback and pulp books. Check out the last two entries with a common theme: Haunted Romance and My Only Love(s)!.
Dick Briefer: a brief biography of this comic artist and few images of his humorous comics Frankenstein. (via Happy Palace)
Grenada: Comic Book (1984): CIA-produced comic book. Air-dropped over Grenada after the 1983 USA-led invasion of the island. Tells the story the US wanted to be told at the time. (via Cynical-C)
Movie Maniac Comic Books: a gallery with covers of comics adaptations from horror films Child's Play, Halloween, Jason Goes To Hell, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Hellraiser and Psycho. There are more four images of Psycho on MothComiX.
Stupid Comics. Dave and Shain love to buy old comic books, too. Really stupid old comic books, with stupid covers and even worse interiors. (via Boing Boing)
The Crime in your Coffee posted scanned images of the comics Hammer, House of Horror: Plague of the Zombies, The Fall Guy: Horse Sense and The Fall Guy: Jumping Town. Thanks!
The vampire's coffin (La Bara Del Vampiro) an Italian photo comic. (via Happy Palace)
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When I make posts with related with war I hope that people remember how many atrocities were made in the name of wars, by politics, religion or revenge. I'm against wars, I hate them. Millions of unknown innocents died in wars and, of course, famous people that fight for their ideals. On the Spanish Civil War the first name that I remember is Federico García Lorca, a great writer, whose works I appreciate a lot, specially his poetry books. He was murdered by Nationalist partisans at the age of 38 at the beginning of that war. He is also remembered as a painter, pianist, and composer.
In war times art still be produced, most of the times for propaganda of the both sides. I think that is very important preserve those materials 'cause they are the registry of art, culture, history, society of some era, they keep the memory of other times alive and are the documents of how people can be manipulated by images and texts. When you work with images you start to discern the other meanings implicit on them. The propaganda and advertisement are very good to manipulate images, distort the reality or create another one.
Propaganda posters are always a great example of how to sell an idea using an images, words, colours and design (the position of each icon is very important). El Burlador posted two links with collections of posters from the Spanish Civil War: Carteles de la Guerra Civil and Carteles GCE.
At the UCSD Mandeville Special Collections Library has Southworth Spanish Civil War collection with 3 fantastic sessions. They Still Draw Pictures - A collection of over 600 drawings made during the Spanish Civil War by Spanish children both in Spain and in refugee centers in France; Shots of War: Photojournalism During the Spanish Civil War; and The Visual Front - Posters of the Spanish Civil War, an excellent exhibition. Plus: Spanish Civil War: Dreams and Nightmares, with extracts from some interviews with International Brigade veterans.
Update: Roberto suggested on more link, Himnos y Canciones de la Guerra Civil - hymns and songs from the Spanish Civil War as MP3.
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After Walken 2008 other great man: Macgyver 2008 for president. In times of great need, people look for a great man to show them the way and lead them to a brighter future... Look no more America, that man is here. One more joke, but the sad part is that seems that anyone is better for president than Bush. (via MAKE)
Around 1965, in a period of strained relations with the Soviet Union, the Cubans decide to develop styles more suitable to their own circumstances. A period of artistic freedom follows. The arts flourish, and there are lively international contacts. Talented Cuban artists start designing colourful, inventive posters of traditional subjects such as commemorations of the revolution or calls for more production. The Cuban leaders are portayed as cheerful and unconventional.
(via Jaf Project)
I didn't vote for my president, I didn't waited for great things, but didn't expected for all those scandals and all this corruption and I'm very disappointed with the things that are happening here. Even with all those problems Bush still worst, much worst even when is about vacations. Yes, I thought also that my president travelled a lot, but Bush still winning in this too: Vacationing Bush Poised to Set a Record. Cool, isn't? The Daily Pick that suggested the link has some comments about this too.
Walken 2008. You saw this on many blogs before, didn't you? I saw this on everywhere on the last days, and the last time was on Bloglines. Is it real? Or just a joke? I'm not sure, but if it's real do me a favour: vote for Walken, ok?
Update: I'm almost sad with the news on Washington Post the actor has "no intention of running," his rep says, and the Web site, registered in Los Angeles under the name Christopher Walken for President, is "100 percent false." It's not a surprise, but was funny anyway. (via Micro Persuasion)
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The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia: Materials from the Labadie Collection.
In the morning hours of August 21, 1968, the Soviet army invaded Czechoslovakia along with troops from four other Warsaw Pact countries. The occupation was the beginning of the end for the Czechoslovak reform movement known as the Prague Spring.
(via Plep)
The Art of Propaganda: Nationalistic Themes in the Art of North Korea. Propaganda posters of North Korean with great themes, like architecture, billboards and monuments. There are two galleries, one to the "Great Leader" Comrade Kim Il Sung and to the "Great Mother", Comrade Kim Jeong-Sook. Very interesting themes, point of view, but burning books? Is that Fahrenheit 451?(via Boing Boing)
Revolution and Commerce: The Legacy of Korda's Portrait of Che Guevara. Artefacts, paintings, posters, photos and illustrations based on the original Korda's photo.
The portrait of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara', Guerrillo Heroico, photographed by Alberto Díaz Korda on March 5, 1960, is considered to be the most reproduced image in the history of photography. Whether this claim can be substantiated or not, Korda's Che is nonetheless a unique image. It has come to symbolize anti-establishment thought and action. Its political power has maintained its currency from the Prague Spring of 1968, through Chiapas, Mexico of 2000, to the present conflicts in the Middle East. It has reverberated from the cold war to our post-colonial reality. It is an image which has inspired sophisticated art and multiple renditions yet its iconic silhouette is immediately recognizable even in the most simple of children's shadow toys.
Old Russian Propaganda Posters: posters about movies, theatre, expositions, circus, shows, sports, politics and others. (via del.icio.us/joshua)
Punch, the famous British magazine has one new addition on Project Gutenberg, one volume from 1917. Punch was responsible for the modern use of the word 'cartoon' to refer to a comic satirical drawing. The magazine was intended to be humorous and satirical, and to signify this intent, took as its name and masthead figure the anarchic glove puppet Mr. Punch. Maybe you never heard about Punch, but you saw some illustrations of one of the famous artists that worked in it. For more Punch on Gutenberg, try this link.
Chinese pop posters compiled by Olivier Laude. He says:
The images you are about to see were collected over a three year period while working in China on a book project on traditional rural Chinese architecture. Between 1989 and 1992, I traveled to China to document the extraordinary beauty and refinement of Chinese vernacular architecture.[...] These posters are used to decorate the walls of schools, private homes and government institutions. They are produced by the central government in Beijing and reflect the many political changes of the past 47 years of communist rule.
The William Morris Internet Archive or I should say the other side of William Morris. I discovered his work during a research for the classes of Art Direction, about Art Nouveau. Unfortunately, I didn't have any idea of his other side. But now I know, thanks to PLEP pointed me to this new link. To know the side of William Morris that I knew it, visit William Morris Society and The William Morris Gallery.
