Dreams in Hard Times
From the Comics Flow Group at
https://learn.sawcomics.org/courses/comics-flow-group
I've been thinking a lot about dreams this week.Some interesting work on dreams came out this week. There is a psychotherapist collecting dreams about Covid-19 https://twitter.com/newworlddreams .
She was already collecting dreams about Trump for 3 years (pretty in-depth: https://45dreamsproject.com/2019/08/23/chapter-9-dreams-of-psychopathy-and-violated-norms/ ) and I think she might be behind the climate change one too: https://twitter.com/climatedreamsWhich got me thinking of drawing dreams in comics. The first main example in comics history is Winsor McCay's Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_of_the_Rarebit_FiendHere is a great, scary example. Be sure to click for the large version.
After that, there have been loads and loads of cartoonists who have mined their dreams for comics. Two main ones I can think of are Jim Woodring and Julie Doucet.Jim Woodring: https://boingboing.net/2014/08/19/jim-a-collection-of-jim-w.html
Julie Doucet: https://www.drawnandquarterly.com/my-most-secret-desire
From her lovely book My Most Secret Desire
I included lots in my memoir, and even in some of my first ever comics. This is from my memoir:
And this is by me from 25 years ago, a dream about "Killing Hitler."
Every week we explore comics in this way, but with sharing and dialogue and exercises.
Come join us! https://learn.sawcomics.org/courses/comics-flow-group
https://learn.sawcomics.org/courses/comics-flow-group
I've been thinking a lot about dreams this week.Some interesting work on dreams came out this week. There is a psychotherapist collecting dreams about Covid-19 https://twitter.com/newworlddreams .
She was already collecting dreams about Trump for 3 years (pretty in-depth: https://45dreamsproject.com/2019/08/23/chapter-9-dreams-of-psychopathy-and-violated-norms/ ) and I think she might be behind the climate change one too: https://twitter.com/climatedreamsWhich got me thinking of drawing dreams in comics. The first main example in comics history is Winsor McCay's Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_of_the_Rarebit_FiendHere is a great, scary example. Be sure to click for the large version.
After that, there have been loads and loads of cartoonists who have mined their dreams for comics. Two main ones I can think of are Jim Woodring and Julie Doucet.Jim Woodring: https://boingboing.net/2014/08/19/jim-a-collection-of-jim-w.html
Julie Doucet: https://www.drawnandquarterly.com/my-most-secret-desireFrom her lovely book My Most Secret Desire
I included lots in my memoir, and even in some of my first ever comics. This is from my memoir:
And this is by me from 25 years ago, a dream about "Killing Hitler."
Every week we explore comics in this way, but with sharing and dialogue and exercises.
Come join us! https://learn.sawcomics.org/courses/comics-flow-group
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