{"id":7645,"date":"2012-09-16T14:59:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T18:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=7645"},"modified":"2012-09-16T14:59:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T18:59:15","slug":"another-comic-strip-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/16\/another-comic-strip-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Another comic strip mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"

The universe must really<\/em> want me to tell you about the collage artist born Burgess Franklin Collins<\/a>, who became known as, simply, Jess. And who am I to deny doing want the universe wants?<\/p>\n

First, while reading the latest issue<\/a> of the Paris Review<\/em>, I came across a collage the artist had done in 1956 that made use of comics\u2014and you already know how intrigued I am by collages<\/a> like that<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then (I assume because I wasn’t acting quickly enough), up popped a Publishers Weekly<\/em> review <\/a>of the book Jess: O! Tricky Cad and Other Jessoterica<\/em><\/a>, which told me more about the former Manhattan Project radiochemist turned artist and informed me that the book’s “publication coincides with the beginning of a traveling exhibition of his work set for 2013 and 2014.”<\/p>\n

So I guess I’d better share the image which intrigued me so, or else mentions of Jess will inevitably start creeping into every magazine I read!<\/p>\n

And so, here’s the paste-up known as Nance<\/em>\u2014or what I assume is only a part<\/em> of the work, since The Paris Review<\/em> describes Nance<\/em> as a “collage on four two-page spreads.”<\/p>\n

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You’ll have to forgive the way the magazine’s spine splits the image down the middle\u2014that’s the only way I was able to scan it due to how it appears in the Paris Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Nance<\/em> is part of the 1956 work, A Birthday Pillow Book for James<\/em>, which Jess had made for poet and filmmaker James Broughton. But\u2014made out of what?<\/p>\n

At first I thought the figures had a Russ Manning feel to them, and perhaps came from Tarzan<\/em>, but apparently Manning only worked on the Tarzan<\/em> newspaper strip<\/a> from 1969-1979, and besides, was Tarzan ever running around with what seem to be Native American Indians?<\/p>\n

So it’s up to you to tell me\u2014which 1956 comic strip did Jess cut up to create Nance<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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