Dave Morice's
POETRY COMICS ONLINE
Look for these Upcoming Issues of Poetry Comics Online:
Peace On Earth Issue No. 27 - May 28 Memorial Day, Father's Day Issue No. 25 - June 17,
Tom Disch Issue No. 28- July 4, Actualist Supernational Convention Issue No. 29 - July 14 - Bastille Day
From 1979 to 1981, the first 17 Issues of POETRY COMICS traveled from around and about Iowa City, IA throughout the poetry world and beyond until one day "The Village Voice" printed a 6-page article about the magazine announcing them as the newest artform. The article caught the interest of Simon & Schuster and in 1982 the company brought out the first of three anthologies. The complete anthologies : Poetry Comics: A Cartooniverse of Poems (Simon & Schuster 1982), More Poetry Comics: Abuse the Muse (Chicago Review Press 1988), Poetry Comics: An Animated Anthology (Teachers & Writers 2000) are available on www.amazon.com Look up Dave Morice on Amazon.com to find these classics and other new works by this prolific author/artist/performer/poet/mental master.
Poetry comics have been on a serious rise over the last five or so years. Not adaptations or short interjections of poems – genuine poems-as-comics, graphic narratives, visual poems, whatever you want to call them. It’s a growing field, with a number of very talented individuals involved, most of them working with webcomics. Matt Madden, illustrator, teacher, and co-author of Drawing Words & Writing Pictures, has been experimenting with cartoon versions of poetry forms like sestinas and pantoums — applying the rules of structure to sequential art. Austin Kleon has authored a book called Newspaper Blackout a collection of newspaper pages blacked out except for a few specific words and images – the results hum with the same weirdness of cut-up and found poems while still working as collage and sequential art. Respected industry veteran Rick Veitch, the undisputed authority on dream comics, has collaborated on a series of poetry comics with writer Peter Money. Bianca Stone’s work is particularly effective: swatches of ethereal language working with stylish illustrations to create an overall reading experience unlike many others. Graphic poet and artist Paul K. Tunis is an exceptional artist who likes poetry, and has depth and extreme versatility. Rich Lederer has been around long enough to still have copies of the early POETRY COMICS, but now he has a burgeoning list of books at his own site: http://www.verbivore.com.
If one is searching for a real authority on poetry comics, though, one need look no farther than Dave Morice. As a poet, teacher, performance artist, writer, and illustrator, Morice has striven to create art out of life while giving others the power to do so. He teaches writing and cartooning, participating in the Iowa Arts in the Schools program and has evens even written a few books on the subject including Poetry Comics, More Poetry Comics, and How to Make Poetry Comics. Dave is a generous teacher, prolific producer at whatever art form he tackles, and still carries a sense of wonderment of the many things he has not tried his hand at yet.
POETRY COMICS ONLINE is now available as this online magazine of poems which have been personally selected and
“cartoonized” by the editor and original inventor of the artform, Dave Morice. The history of what would become the first seventeen issues appearing in print from 1978 to 1981 are chronicled above. These historic covers are now posted on the last page of this website. Now, 30 years later, the magazine returns to the poetry world and makes a home for itself on the worldwide web. New technologies and the Internet allow Poetry Comics Online to reach a worldwide audience of nearly 500 readers a day, when the original Poetry Comics were produced in batched of 150 and hand-delivered or mailed to select people in the United States only. Many thanks to Joye Chizek, Webmaster and Mary Jo Dane, Assistant Editor for making it happen! For more information e-mail drabc26@aol.com or visit Dave Morice on Wikipedia.
NEWS OF THE DAY:
"THE GRAPHIC CANON", edited by Russ Kick, is a gorgeous, one-of-a-kind trilogy that brings classic literatures of the world together with legendary graphic artists and illustrators. To be released May 22, 2012, there are more than 130 illustrators represented and 190 literary works over three volumes—many newly commissioned, some hard to find—reinterpreted here for readers and collectors of all ages.
Volume 1 takes us on a visual tour from the earliest literature through the end of the 1700s. Along the way, we're treated to eye-popping renditions of the human race's greatest epics: Gilgamesh, The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid, Beowulf, and The Arabian Nights, plus later epics The Divine Comedy and The Canterbury Tales, Paradise Lost, and Le Morte D'Arthur. Two of ancient Greece's greatest plays are adapted—the tragedy Medea by Euripides and Tania Schrag’s uninhibited rendering of the very bawdy comedy Lysistrata by Aristophanes. Also included is Robert Crumb’s rarely-seen adaptation of James Boswell’s London Journal, filled with philosophical debate and lowbrow debauchery. Volume 1 also features striking illustrations by Dave Morice of George Peele's HOT SUN, COOL FIRE.
Religious literature is well-covered with the Books of Daniel and Esther, Rick Geary’s awe-inspiring new rendition of the Book of Revelation, the Tao te Ching, Rumi’s Sufi poetry, Hinduism’s Mahabharata, and the Mayan holy book Popol Vuh, illustrated by Roberta Gregory. The Eastern canon gets its due, with The Tale of Genji, three poems from China’s golden age of literature lovingly drawn by underground comics artist Sharon Rudahl, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, a Japanese Noh play, and other works from Asia. Two of Shakespeare’s greatest plays (King Lear and A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and two of his sonnets are here, as are Plato’s Symposium, Gulliver’s Travels, Candide, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Renaissance poetry of love and desire, and Don Quixote visualized by the legendary Will Eisner. Some unexpected twists in this volume include a Native American folktale, an Incan play, Sappho’s poetic fragments, bawdy essays by Benjamin Franklin, the love letters of Abelard and Heloise, and the decadent French classic Dangerous Liaisons, as illustrated by Molly Crabapple. And much more...
If one is searching for a real authority on poetry comics, though, one need look no farther than Dave Morice. As a poet, teacher, performance artist, writer, and illustrator, Morice has striven to create art out of life while giving others the power to do so. He teaches writing and cartooning, participating in the Iowa Arts in the Schools program and has evens even written a few books on the subject including Poetry Comics, More Poetry Comics, and How to Make Poetry Comics. Dave is a generous teacher, prolific producer at whatever art form he tackles, and still carries a sense of wonderment of the many things he has not tried his hand at yet.
POETRY COMICS ONLINE is now available as this online magazine of poems which have been personally selected and“cartoonized” by the editor and original inventor of the artform, Dave Morice. The history of what would become the first seventeen issues appearing in print from 1978 to 1981 are chronicled above. These historic covers are now posted on the last page of this website. Now, 30 years later, the magazine returns to the poetry world and makes a home for itself on the worldwide web. New technologies and the Internet allow Poetry Comics Online to reach a worldwide audience of nearly 500 readers a day, when the original Poetry Comics were produced in batched of 150 and hand-delivered or mailed to select people in the United States only. Many thanks to Joye Chizek, Webmaster and Mary Jo Dane, Assistant Editor for making it happen! For more information e-mail drabc26@aol.com or visit Dave Morice on Wikipedia.
NEWS OF THE DAY:
"THE GRAPHIC CANON", edited by Russ Kick, is a gorgeous, one-of-a-kind trilogy that brings classic literatures of the world together with legendary graphic artists and illustrators. To be released May 22, 2012, there are more than 130 illustrators represented and 190 literary works over three volumes—many newly commissioned, some hard to find—reinterpreted here for readers and collectors of all ages.
Volume 1 takes us on a visual tour from the earliest literature through the end of the 1700s. Along the way, we're treated to eye-popping renditions of the human race's greatest epics: Gilgamesh, The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid, Beowulf, and The Arabian Nights, plus later epics The Divine Comedy and The Canterbury Tales, Paradise Lost, and Le Morte D'Arthur. Two of ancient Greece's greatest plays are adapted—the tragedy Medea by Euripides and Tania Schrag’s uninhibited rendering of the very bawdy comedy Lysistrata by Aristophanes. Also included is Robert Crumb’s rarely-seen adaptation of James Boswell’s London Journal, filled with philosophical debate and lowbrow debauchery. Volume 1 also features striking illustrations by Dave Morice of George Peele's HOT SUN, COOL FIRE.
Religious literature is well-covered with the Books of Daniel and Esther, Rick Geary’s awe-inspiring new rendition of the Book of Revelation, the Tao te Ching, Rumi’s Sufi poetry, Hinduism’s Mahabharata, and the Mayan holy book Popol Vuh, illustrated by Roberta Gregory. The Eastern canon gets its due, with The Tale of Genji, three poems from China’s golden age of literature lovingly drawn by underground comics artist Sharon Rudahl, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, a Japanese Noh play, and other works from Asia. Two of Shakespeare’s greatest plays (King Lear and A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and two of his sonnets are here, as are Plato’s Symposium, Gulliver’s Travels, Candide, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Renaissance poetry of love and desire, and Don Quixote visualized by the legendary Will Eisner. Some unexpected twists in this volume include a Native American folktale, an Incan play, Sappho’s poetic fragments, bawdy essays by Benjamin Franklin, the love letters of Abelard and Heloise, and the decadent French classic Dangerous Liaisons, as illustrated by Molly Crabapple. And much more...
