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The Nib #6
The Nib #6
All power to the cartoonists!
Artists from around the world share stories of power and possibility, from Ta-Nehisi Coates discussing Black Panther to Nate Powell on cosplaying nazis.
Inside:
- Plutonium prospects!
- Patriarchal propaganda!
- Police profiteers!
- Persistent protesters!
Artists from around the world share stories of power and possibility, from Ta-Nehisi Coates discussing Black Panther to Nate Powell on cosplaying nazis.
Inside:
- Plutonium prospects!
- Patriarchal propaganda!
- Police profiteers!
- Persistent protesters!
116 pages, ebook
Published July 1, 2020
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About the author
Matt Bors
59 books58 followersMatt Bors is a cartoonist, writer, editor, and the founder of The Nib. He was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist for his political cartoons in 2012 and 2020 and is the co-writer of the dystopian satire Justice Warriors with Ben Clarkson.
His cartoons have appeared in The Nation, The Guardian, CNN, The Intercept, and were collected in the book We Should Improve Society Somewhat. He also drew the graphic novel War Is Boring written by David Axe.
His cartoons have appeared in The Nation, The Guardian, CNN, The Intercept, and were collected in the book We Should Improve Society Somewhat. He also drew the graphic novel War Is Boring written by David Axe.
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Displaying 1 - 8 of 8 reviews
October 29, 2020
The Nib continues to publish some of the very best comics. Of personal local interest to me was the piece by Sarah Mirk, Vreni Stollberger and Joyce Rice about PG&E's involvement in the last few California Wildfires seasons and their subsequent "defensive blackouts". In October 2019 they cut power to 2.8 million people, many of my family members included. I have hosted friends who had to evacuate from fires 3 of the past 4 years.
November 28, 2020
great issue! if ignore the two page comic sympathizing with the reopen north carolina protests. things are unbelievably hard and people have reason to be upset but why platform folks who are advocating for putting millions more “essential” workers at risk? do we not all agree that this virus is real? do we not all agree that austerity is what got us here? idgi
August 24, 2020
It is so hard to be both timely and in print, especially when the medium is as time intensive as comics. And yet the power of the "Power" issue is how clear-eyed it is about how bad things can get.
Matt Bors' intro decrys the state abdication of duty that led to the then-high of 100,000 deaths from COVID in the US (as I read it there were at least 177,000). "Powerless," a feature written ny VreninStollberger and Sarah Mirk and drawn by Joyce Rice, illustrates the looming disaster of wholesale infrastructure mismanagment and malfeasance in California. "Powerless" cites the specific example of Camp Fire, which burned 177,000 acres, and as I write this review over 1 million acres are on fire in California alone.
It does not take a great prescience to look at the world in late 2019 and mid 2020 and conclude that things are going to proceed to get worse. What the "Power" issue does, though, is at every turn look at the way people in power are causing or exacerbating that harm, that either through grift or malice or incompetence or simply an unwillingless to confront the past, harm continues and those with power remain detached from the consequences.
There is a recurring theme throughout, of what a kind of visceral accountability for the powerful looks like, and it, too, may prove prophetic. After all, there just aren't that many ways a reign by terror can end.
Matt Bors' intro decrys the state abdication of duty that led to the then-high of 100,000 deaths from COVID in the US (as I read it there were at least 177,000). "Powerless," a feature written ny VreninStollberger and Sarah Mirk and drawn by Joyce Rice, illustrates the looming disaster of wholesale infrastructure mismanagment and malfeasance in California. "Powerless" cites the specific example of Camp Fire, which burned 177,000 acres, and as I write this review over 1 million acres are on fire in California alone.
It does not take a great prescience to look at the world in late 2019 and mid 2020 and conclude that things are going to proceed to get worse. What the "Power" issue does, though, is at every turn look at the way people in power are causing or exacerbating that harm, that either through grift or malice or incompetence or simply an unwillingless to confront the past, harm continues and those with power remain detached from the consequences.
There is a recurring theme throughout, of what a kind of visceral accountability for the powerful looks like, and it, too, may prove prophetic. After all, there just aren't that many ways a reign by terror can end.
August 17, 2020
The Nib is really showing what graphic non-fiction can be. This collection is about all aspects of power. There were only a few I didn't care for. The one by Nate Powell about racism in cosplay was excellent as was the odd two pager by Michael DeForge A really wonderful book
January 1, 2021
I like the topic: power. Not often enough do we think this comprehensively about it. This issue ranges far and wide on this topic. Of course it is not very uplifting as a result. Still, well worth reading!
December 24, 2023
I found this issue to be more scattered and less interesting than the others so far. Maybe it's because I've recently read entire graphic books about unions and other historical stuff that this book covers. Still, there's some good material here.
January 16, 2023
Not my favorite volume.
May 1, 2021
A broad scope of stories that highlight the power struggles happening in American life, some focused on the Covid pandemic and some more broad. From European descendents being more easily able to track down ancestral lineage, to white male Comic Con attendees dressing up in Hitler costumes without being called out. I especially enjoyed 'Childrens Books for the 1 Percent'.
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