Party Pics

Candace Corbin Collages

Ode to James Payne//provisional

  collage and highlighter on paper, 2011

Candace Corbin named a suite of new collages after me - ego successfully massaged/bolstered, thank you. It was needed.

One day, after one of our friends 'gets famous,' researchers will uncover the circle of our social relations through intertwining names and mentions in liner notes and blog entries. And by researchers, I mean unpaid interns.

Corbin just graduated from  MassArt - the only publicly-funded free-standing art school in America - how cool. Congratulate her. 

Candace Corbin: Selected Poems

Candace Corbin is a poet and artist who studies painting at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, Massachusetts. She recently released her first zine of drawings and poetry at the Richmond Zine Fest. It includes some of the poems that follow. Contact Corbin at candacelcorbin@gmail.com.

RED SHEETS

I don’t have red
Bed sheets
Neither do you
Yours are green

Last night
I slept in red sheets
it was
cold out

I did not
wake up alone in
red sheets
I was warm

Richmond Zine Fest 2010

A few weeks ago I tabled this event with Chelsea Dirck and Candace Corbin in Richmond, Virginia. We don't seem to be in this video. Dirck sold prints like hot cakes. I made buttons and periodically someone would buy an Arty Party or Assuming Size. C.L. Corbin made her very first zine, a collection of poems, drawings and collages.

Women's Comics Anthology

                      Front and back cover wraparound by Sara Drake.

Women's Comics Anthology, a zine I co-edited as part of the Ladydrawers project I am helping Anne Elizabeth Moore with, is now available to download for free on 'the Internet.'

Women's Comics Anthology is a gendered content analysis of a random sample of comics anthologies. Some of the statistics derived from our study are deeply troubling and call for soul-searching introspection of behalf of comics editors, publishers and artists. For instance, women comics makers only accounted for 16% of total contributors to the anthologies we reviewed. Indeed, more women appeared as naked characters in the anthologies than as clothed creators contributing to them.  These facty-facts, propped up by anecdotal accounts in extensive interviews collected under the Ladydrawers project, paint the comics industry as systematically inequitable and largely divided among gender lines.

Women's Comics Anthology is also a comics anthology, largely drawn by women. Each statistic collected was illustrated by a different artist. Contributors include Ramsey Beyer, Candace Corbin, Chelsea Dirck, Sara Drake, Emil Emanta, Karla Hewitt-Blackie, Ingrid Olson, Leslie Perrine, Alma Vescovi and most of Moore's Ladydrawers class at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Download Women's Comics Anthology at Pressing Concern Books: here.