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Accident Photos Graphic Biography In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the life and thought of Leon Trotsky, particularly among the youth.
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In response, a number of deplorable biographies have appeared, including those by Geoffrey Swain and Ian Thatcher, and, of course, Robert Service’s recent volume, which resembles character assassination rather than an effort at historical truth. This type of work has preemptive political motives; it is aimed at turning readers away from revolutionary politics.
Behind the revived popular interest in Trotsky lie objective processes. The ongoing crisis of capitalism and worsening conditions for masses of people, on the one hand, and the failure of Stalinism (and other “national roads to socialism”), on the other, are propelling many people to look for political alternatives to the status quo.
Any serious search for an alternative to both the present system and Stalinism inevitably brings up Trotsky’s name. This holds true for the artist too. But then what? How to approach his life as biographic material in a serious and honest manner is one thing. How to make his life into remarkable art is another. Is the life of Leon Trotsky suitable for a graphic artist to work on? Certainly, but even the best-intentioned artist has to take great care in answering the questions bound up with such material.
Graphic novels, or comic books, have until recently, not been taken very seriously as an artistic medium. Given the fact that a number of graphic novels have served as the basis for poor or insubstantial films (i.e., From Hell, Sin City, Watchmen, etc.), this is understandable. Fortunately, there are many cartoonists and illustrators who take art and life more seriously. Rick Geary, an award-winning cartoonist from Kansas City, Missouri, is among them.
Geary previously illustrated a graphic series entitled A Treasury of Victorian Murder, and in 2008 created J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography. His most recent work, Trotsky: A Graphic Biography, concerns the life and times of the twentieth-century Russian revolutionary. Despite the book’s wonderful drawings, however, the work as a whole is somewhat disappointing.
The volume contains 100 pages of black-and-white images against a stark white background. Geary does not shade in his drawings, but instead utilizes straight lines to create the illusion of depth and perspective. The layout of the pages is also impressive; Geary will utilize different images within each panel on a single page to give the book an almost kinetic feel. Considering the demanding life of Leon Trotsky, this gives the work an exciting and almost breathless character.
Many maps are included to illustrate Trotsky’s travels or enforced exiles; there are also drawings of the prisons where he was held and the towns and cities in which he lived. A panel depicting the Bloody Sunday atrocity in January 1905, in which tsarist military units killed more than a thousand unarmed demonstrators in St. Petersburg, touching off the first Russian revolution, is done with sensitivity and simplicity.
One scene, which could have been taken directly out of Trotsky’s My Life, showing the latter and Lenin sharing a brief rest in a empty room immediately following the October Revolution, is also memorable. Another image contrasts Stalin with a profile of Napoleon Bonaparte, and in the following panel Geary has Trotsky hanging onto a pendulum swing, signifying the ebbs and flows of his fortune. The last panel, revealing Trotsky’s grave in Coyoacán, Mexico, is somber, yet not sentimental.
All this is done with a certain degree of sympathy for the protagonist, but most likely Geary’s intention was to let the reader come to his or her own conclusion, which is not entirely a good thing considering the not-so-neutral text that accompanies Geary’s images. The artistic strengths of Trotsky notwithstanding, too much of the text borders on simplistic summaries of Trotsky’s ideas, or worse. In fact, it contains some misleading and false conceptions.
The first panel of the book is inspired by a famous Bolshevik propaganda poster that depicts Trotsky atop a white horse as St. George slaying the dragon of “capitalist repression.” In contrast, the following panel—an anti-Semitic poster from the counter-revolutionary White Army—represents Trotsky as a devil sitting on top of a mound of human skulls.
Geary holds these images up as two conflicting notions of Trotsky, one heroic and the other evil. Geary then writes, “In truth he fitted neither of these images.” And so he establishes the theme of the book: Trotsky was a towering historical figure, but also partially responsible for his own demise. This is rather philistine—”Trotsky had a good side and a bad side,” in other words—and doesn’t get us very far at all. In fact, it is an evasion of the complex historical and ideological issues.
On page 41, Geary describes Trotsky’s theory of Permanent Revolution in the following manner: “He knew that Russia’s revolution would be generated and sustained by the industrial workers in the nation’s urban centers. But their numbers would not be enough to keep it safe from counterrevolution which would most likely come from the backward and unreliable peasantry…the solution would be to spread the revolution westward across Europe in a never-ending tide until it covered the globe!”
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In response, a number of deplorable biographies have appeared, including those by Geoffrey Swain and Ian Thatcher, and, of course, Robert Service’s recent volume, which resembles character assassination rather than an effort at historical truth. This type of work has preemptive political motives; it is aimed at turning readers away from revolutionary politics.
Behind the revived popular interest in Trotsky lie objective processes. The ongoing crisis of capitalism and worsening conditions for masses of people, on the one hand, and the failure of Stalinism (and other “national roads to socialism”), on the other, are propelling many people to look for political alternatives to the status quo.
Any serious search for an alternative to both the present system and Stalinism inevitably brings up Trotsky’s name. This holds true for the artist too. But then what? How to approach his life as biographic material in a serious and honest manner is one thing. How to make his life into remarkable art is another. Is the life of Leon Trotsky suitable for a graphic artist to work on? Certainly, but even the best-intentioned artist has to take great care in answering the questions bound up with such material.
Graphic novels, or comic books, have until recently, not been taken very seriously as an artistic medium. Given the fact that a number of graphic novels have served as the basis for poor or insubstantial films (i.e., From Hell, Sin City, Watchmen, etc.), this is understandable. Fortunately, there are many cartoonists and illustrators who take art and life more seriously. Rick Geary, an award-winning cartoonist from Kansas City, Missouri, is among them.
Geary previously illustrated a graphic series entitled A Treasury of Victorian Murder, and in 2008 created J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography. His most recent work, Trotsky: A Graphic Biography, concerns the life and times of the twentieth-century Russian revolutionary. Despite the book’s wonderful drawings, however, the work as a whole is somewhat disappointing.
The volume contains 100 pages of black-and-white images against a stark white background. Geary does not shade in his drawings, but instead utilizes straight lines to create the illusion of depth and perspective. The layout of the pages is also impressive; Geary will utilize different images within each panel on a single page to give the book an almost kinetic feel. Considering the demanding life of Leon Trotsky, this gives the work an exciting and almost breathless character.
Many maps are included to illustrate Trotsky’s travels or enforced exiles; there are also drawings of the prisons where he was held and the towns and cities in which he lived. A panel depicting the Bloody Sunday atrocity in January 1905, in which tsarist military units killed more than a thousand unarmed demonstrators in St. Petersburg, touching off the first Russian revolution, is done with sensitivity and simplicity.
One scene, which could have been taken directly out of Trotsky’s My Life, showing the latter and Lenin sharing a brief rest in a empty room immediately following the October Revolution, is also memorable. Another image contrasts Stalin with a profile of Napoleon Bonaparte, and in the following panel Geary has Trotsky hanging onto a pendulum swing, signifying the ebbs and flows of his fortune. The last panel, revealing Trotsky’s grave in Coyoacán, Mexico, is somber, yet not sentimental.
All this is done with a certain degree of sympathy for the protagonist, but most likely Geary’s intention was to let the reader come to his or her own conclusion, which is not entirely a good thing considering the not-so-neutral text that accompanies Geary’s images. The artistic strengths of Trotsky notwithstanding, too much of the text borders on simplistic summaries of Trotsky’s ideas, or worse. In fact, it contains some misleading and false conceptions.
The first panel of the book is inspired by a famous Bolshevik propaganda poster that depicts Trotsky atop a white horse as St. George slaying the dragon of “capitalist repression.” In contrast, the following panel—an anti-Semitic poster from the counter-revolutionary White Army—represents Trotsky as a devil sitting on top of a mound of human skulls.
Geary holds these images up as two conflicting notions of Trotsky, one heroic and the other evil. Geary then writes, “In truth he fitted neither of these images.” And so he establishes the theme of the book: Trotsky was a towering historical figure, but also partially responsible for his own demise. This is rather philistine—”Trotsky had a good side and a bad side,” in other words—and doesn’t get us very far at all. In fact, it is an evasion of the complex historical and ideological issues.
On page 41, Geary describes Trotsky’s theory of Permanent Revolution in the following manner: “He knew that Russia’s revolution would be generated and sustained by the industrial workers in the nation’s urban centers. But their numbers would not be enough to keep it safe from counterrevolution which would most likely come from the backward and unreliable peasantry…the solution would be to spread the revolution westward across Europe in a never-ending tide until it covered the globe!”
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Friday 22 March 2013
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If there’s anything we need more of in our lives right now, it’s hot shirtless surfers. Luckily for us, a new flick called Chasing Mavericks hits theaters Friday, October 26! Hollywood newcomer Jonny Weston will be depicting the true story of legendary surfer Jay Moriarity, who became famous for surfing Mavericks’ (Northern California’s epic surf spot) massive waves. His mentor, Frosty Hesson (played by Gerard Butler), and his girlfriend, Kim (played by Hunger Games tribute Leven Rambin), serve as his support system throughout his journey. Unfortunately, Jay died the day before his 23rd birthday due to a diving accident and, ironically enough, the day before Jonny’s own 23rd birthday was when he first read the script for the film. Eerie.
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If there’s anything we need more of in our lives right now, it’s hot shirtless surfers. Luckily for us, a new flick called Chasing Mavericks hits theaters Friday, October 26! Hollywood newcomer Jonny Weston will be depicting the true story of legendary surfer Jay Moriarity, who became famous for surfing Mavericks’ (Northern California’s epic surf spot) massive waves. His mentor, Frosty Hesson (played by Gerard Butler), and his girlfriend, Kim (played by Hunger Games tribute Leven Rambin), serve as his support system throughout his journey. Unfortunately, Jay died the day before his 23rd birthday due to a diving accident and, ironically enough, the day before Jonny’s own 23rd birthday was when he first read the script for the film. Eerie.
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Thursday 21 March 2013
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Princess Diana's biographer Andrew Morton has told of how he survived a horrific fatal car crash - in which an adult and baby died - while on honeymoon.
Speaking from his hospital bed in South Africa the 58-year-old said the accident happened as they were heading to the airport to fly back to Britain.
His 51-year-old wife, Ms Carolyn Morton has already been discharged from Mediclinic Nelspruit’s ICU.
The Mortons arrived in South Africa at the beginning of the month and kicked off their honeymoon in Cape Town.
“It was a marvelous holiday. We were watching lions and a female leopard shortly before hitting the road and that horrible accident happened,” he said.
“I am well under the circumstances. The other people are dead,” he added.
The accident occurred at about 12:00 on the R40 between Big 5 Backpackers and Protea Hotel.
The Mortons - who also stayed in Franschoek prior to their stay at Leadwood Lodge in the Lowveld - were on their way to Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport near White River in a Mahindra which was being driven by Johan Scholtz of Tamboti Tours.
Mr Morton, who has written about Princess of Wales, Diana; Tom Cruise; Angelina Jolie and Monica Lewinsky said: “It was a head-on collission. Had my wife and I not been wearing safety belts, we would have been dead."
Scholtz said “everything happened so fast”.
He recalled he had been driving up a steep hill when the Honda approached him at high speed.
“It couldn’t make the turn and collided with my vehicle. It was a matter of seconds and I couldn’t do anything to avoid a collision,” he said.
Paramedics of Langamed swiftly arrived at the scene.
Two occupants of the Honda, a woman and a baby, estimated to have been only two months old, were declared dead.
A third passenger of the Honda was taken to Matikwane Hospital with serious injuries.
Andrew sustained fractured ribs and his wife a fractured sternum. They were taken to Mediclinic. Carolyn has already been discharged. “The treatment at the hospital is really exemplary,” Morton said.
Scholtz sustained fractured ribs himself, but was not admited to hospital.
This had been Andrew’s second visit to South Africa.
Mr Joseph Mabuza, spokesman for the Department of Community Safety, Security and Liaison, said post-mortems were due to be being carried out on the deceased.
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Princess Diana's biographer Andrew Morton has told of how he survived a horrific fatal car crash - in which an adult and baby died - while on honeymoon.
Speaking from his hospital bed in South Africa the 58-year-old said the accident happened as they were heading to the airport to fly back to Britain.
His 51-year-old wife, Ms Carolyn Morton has already been discharged from Mediclinic Nelspruit’s ICU.
The Mortons arrived in South Africa at the beginning of the month and kicked off their honeymoon in Cape Town.
“It was a marvelous holiday. We were watching lions and a female leopard shortly before hitting the road and that horrible accident happened,” he said.
“I am well under the circumstances. The other people are dead,” he added.
The accident occurred at about 12:00 on the R40 between Big 5 Backpackers and Protea Hotel.
The Mortons - who also stayed in Franschoek prior to their stay at Leadwood Lodge in the Lowveld - were on their way to Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport near White River in a Mahindra which was being driven by Johan Scholtz of Tamboti Tours.
Mr Morton, who has written about Princess of Wales, Diana; Tom Cruise; Angelina Jolie and Monica Lewinsky said: “It was a head-on collission. Had my wife and I not been wearing safety belts, we would have been dead."
Scholtz said “everything happened so fast”.
He recalled he had been driving up a steep hill when the Honda approached him at high speed.
“It couldn’t make the turn and collided with my vehicle. It was a matter of seconds and I couldn’t do anything to avoid a collision,” he said.
Paramedics of Langamed swiftly arrived at the scene.
Two occupants of the Honda, a woman and a baby, estimated to have been only two months old, were declared dead.
A third passenger of the Honda was taken to Matikwane Hospital with serious injuries.
Andrew sustained fractured ribs and his wife a fractured sternum. They were taken to Mediclinic. Carolyn has already been discharged. “The treatment at the hospital is really exemplary,” Morton said.
Scholtz sustained fractured ribs himself, but was not admited to hospital.
This had been Andrew’s second visit to South Africa.
Mr Joseph Mabuza, spokesman for the Department of Community Safety, Security and Liaison, said post-mortems were due to be being carried out on the deceased.
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Your humble narrator would like to say a few words on how it all happened after reading various bullshit accounts on various releases by ex record companies and managers, written by people who neither know nor care.
Let me take you back to the summer of 1977. At 16 years old, Con Larkin had just completed his first month as an apprentice draughtsman and with his first wage bought a Rickenbacker 4001 copy and was able to start playing bass after months of trying on a £5 acoustic spanish guitar with two of the strings removed. He was very much inspired by the likes of The Clash and that same weekend had been to see the Sex Pistols perform at the Rock Garden in Middlesbrough under the guise of Acne Rebel.
Meanwhile, similarly inspired brother Paul, 14, was trying to put together a punk rock band with friends Dave Hammond and the Newnham brothers Craig and Shaun and had got as far as playing 'One Chord Wonders', and 'I Don't Need to Tell her', in Dave's mother's front room with Paul on bass, Dave on guitar, Shaun on vocals and Craig on Drums. Con had got together with some other friends Nell,
Stuart and 'The Grant', to form a band called Insipid, though it never actually got any further than talking about it and getting together to get pissed in the pub.
Back at Paul's motley crew, Shaun fast lost interest in the band, though together with Con, Paul and Craig formed the notorious drinking team 'The Darlo Wildboys',(sic), that's another story in its own right. After deciding that Paul would not be able to play the bass if he practiced until 1999 Con joined forces with them. After all he could just about play 'White Riot', if he missed out the difficult bits, and he owned a bass. It was with this trio that the song
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Your humble narrator would like to say a few words on how it all happened after reading various bullshit accounts on various releases by ex record companies and managers, written by people who neither know nor care.
Let me take you back to the summer of 1977. At 16 years old, Con Larkin had just completed his first month as an apprentice draughtsman and with his first wage bought a Rickenbacker 4001 copy and was able to start playing bass after months of trying on a £5 acoustic spanish guitar with two of the strings removed. He was very much inspired by the likes of The Clash and that same weekend had been to see the Sex Pistols perform at the Rock Garden in Middlesbrough under the guise of Acne Rebel.
Meanwhile, similarly inspired brother Paul, 14, was trying to put together a punk rock band with friends Dave Hammond and the Newnham brothers Craig and Shaun and had got as far as playing 'One Chord Wonders', and 'I Don't Need to Tell her', in Dave's mother's front room with Paul on bass, Dave on guitar, Shaun on vocals and Craig on Drums. Con had got together with some other friends Nell,
Stuart and 'The Grant', to form a band called Insipid, though it never actually got any further than talking about it and getting together to get pissed in the pub.
Back at Paul's motley crew, Shaun fast lost interest in the band, though together with Con, Paul and Craig formed the notorious drinking team 'The Darlo Wildboys',(sic), that's another story in its own right. After deciding that Paul would not be able to play the bass if he practiced until 1999 Con joined forces with them. After all he could just about play 'White Riot', if he missed out the difficult bits, and he owned a bass. It was with this trio that the song
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