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Derrick Jensen

Margaret — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:28:47 +0000

Derrick Jensen (1960–) is a radical environmentalist and author and is considered one of the most influential anti-civilization thinkers. He is more famous for his non-fiction works such as A Culture of Make-Believe and Endgame, but he has also written a couple of novels, a graphic novel, and a book about teaching creative writing—a subject which he has taught in both prison and college.

Author’s site:

derrickjensen.org

Wikipedia:

Derrick Jensen

Available directly from Derrick Jensen:

Both the novel Songs of the Dead and the graphic novel As the World Burns are available directly from Derrick Jensen’s site.

Fly

Margaret — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:56:51 +0000

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Fly (n.d.), a comic author, has been squatting in New York City for over two decades. Her stories are beautifully honest and strange, fictionalizing elements of her life on the streets and in squats and traveling the world. Her work has been collected into the books CHRON!IC!RIOTS!PA!SM! and Total Disaster, as well as the graphic novel Dog Dayz. Her comic “Zero Content” appeared in Slug & Lettuce for years, and she’s done the covers of countless books, zines, and records.

Author’s website:

flyspage.com

Book available from AK Press:

CHRON!IC!RIOTS!PA!SM!

Max Ernst

Margaret — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:49:07 +0000

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Max Ernst (1891–1976) was an active participant in both Dada and Surrealism and was a visual artist who worked in collage, paintings, and sculpture. He was also one of the early creators of wordless novels, such as his Une semaine de bonté (A Week of Kindness), a collaged dark piece that follows a bird-man in a dark and surreal world. It wasn’t hard to discover he was politically radical (as most dadaists and surrealists were), but it was from Conversing with Cage, a collection of interviews with anarchist composer John Cage edited by Richard Kostelanetz that I discovered Ernst as an anarchist. In one interview, Cage is talking about his own anarchist influences and mentions, “I said something about anarchy to the widow of Max Ernst and she said that Max was an anarchist.”

Wikipedia:

Max Ernst

Wordless novel available from Amazon.com:

Une Semaine De Bonte

Mattias Elftorp

Margaret — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:42:17 +0000

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Mattias Elftorp (1978–) is a comic book author from Malmö, Sweden. A politically involved anarchist and cyberpunk, he is the author of the Piracy is Liberation books, which he describes as “Political theory, filtered through autobiography, masked as fiction in the form of cyberpunk postapocalypse.” Although most of his work is in English, he’s done recurring “Arg Kanin” (Angry Animals) short comics in Swedish that are printed in different publications and are used on political fliers. He recently did an exhibition “Violence,” on police brutality, that coincided with the EuroSocial Forum being held in Malmö.

Author’s website:

elftorp.com

Piracy Is Liberation series available from the author:

Piracy Is Liberation

J. Daniels

Margaret — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:14:13 +0000

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

J. Daniels (n.d.) released a parody of TinTin in the 1980s that featured TinTin as a radical anarchist unionist, entitled The Adventures of TinTin: Breaking Free.

Read TinTin online for free in English, French, or Spanish:

tintinrevolution.free.fr

Buy TinTin from AK Press:

Tin Tin: Breaking Free

The Chronicles of Zomaz – The Anarchist Wizard

Margaret — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:25:25 +0000

The Chronicles of Zomaz – The Anarchist Wizard is a web comic that pairs photography with text and tells us the tale of, you guessed it, Zomaz, the anarchist wizard. It also features such characters as Hank the dog, the evil Wizard of Many Hats, and Aaron the shoplifting monkey. The story is fairly sporadic and strangely paced, but amusingly so and is rather funny. The photos are well done, and all in all I can’t recommend a better use of twenty minutes than to read all 12 episodes. The gender representation is lousy, however, and I’m actually impressed they managed to do such a terrible job of it when all of the characters are stuffed animals.

William Blake

Margaret — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:54:53 +0000

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

William Blake (1757–1827), poet and author of “Illuminated Manuscripts” (proto-graphic-novels), was an anarchist before the word was coined. He was also both a mystic and completely unrenowned in his time. He attacked organized religion fiercely, and published the heretical The Marriage of Heaven & Hell. One interesting quote from that book: “Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion.”

Wikipedia:
William Blake

Many of his works are available online from The William Blake Archive. Others, including readings of his poetry, are available from Project Gutenberg.

William Blake as Visionary Anarchist, presentation by Peter Marshall:

Part II:

(thanks Gareth Branwyn for bringing these to my attention!)