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Occupy Comics
Occupy Comics: Art & Stories Inspired by Occupy Wall Street is a three-issue comic book anthology series published by Black Mask Studios in 2013. Funded on Kickstarter, the series articulates themes of the Occupy Wall Street movement through comics as well as fund-raises on behalf of the protesters.
As Bleeding Cool described it:
Some of the biggest names in independent and mainstream comics have come together for a social-networking funded comic book anthology to tell the story of the Occupy Wall Street protest that sidesteps the 24-hour news media's desire for sensationalism. The money raised will pay the creators for their work – and they will then donate all that money to the Occupy movement, especially through the coming winter months.
Wired explained the perceived relationship between Occupy Wall Street and art:
Pizzolo said the project makes sense because the Occupy Wall Street movement was launched by a piece of art. "Adbusters created a really powerful image of a ballerina atop the Wall Street Bull with protesters in the background, and that was enough to set this off," he said. "Then Anonymous brought in the Guy Fawkes masks, and U.S. Day of Rage created more art challenging the relationship between Wall Street and Washington. So this is an art-inspired movement, and that's part of what makes it so viral. It's not intellectual, it doesn't need a manifesto. People are banding together around an idea, rather than an ideology."
The project was officially announced by organizational spearhead Matt Pizzolo in Wired Magazine on October 13, 2011, several weeks after the occupation of Zuccotti Park began on September 17, 2011.
According to Wired:
Pizzolo's Occupy Comics was originally designed to bring public awareness to the Occupy Wall Street movement. But a combination of growing protests, as well as possibly illegal police pushback, solved the exposure gap. Now Pizzolo is interested in providing illustrative and material support to protesters through a Kickstarter project whose contributors would donate all proceeds to the Wall Street occupiers. "I think it's cool to expand the Occupy movement out of physical spaces and into abstract spaces like comics, so its culture can start occupying shared mindspaces as well as cities," Pizzolo said. "The occupation has to be as pervasive and immersive as possible."
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Occupy Comics
Occupy Comics: Art & Stories Inspired by Occupy Wall Street is a three-issue comic book anthology series published by Black Mask Studios in 2013. Funded on Kickstarter, the series articulates themes of the Occupy Wall Street movement through comics as well as fund-raises on behalf of the protesters.
As Bleeding Cool described it:
Some of the biggest names in independent and mainstream comics have come together for a social-networking funded comic book anthology to tell the story of the Occupy Wall Street protest that sidesteps the 24-hour news media's desire for sensationalism. The money raised will pay the creators for their work – and they will then donate all that money to the Occupy movement, especially through the coming winter months.
Wired explained the perceived relationship between Occupy Wall Street and art:
Pizzolo said the project makes sense because the Occupy Wall Street movement was launched by a piece of art. "Adbusters created a really powerful image of a ballerina atop the Wall Street Bull with protesters in the background, and that was enough to set this off," he said. "Then Anonymous brought in the Guy Fawkes masks, and U.S. Day of Rage created more art challenging the relationship between Wall Street and Washington. So this is an art-inspired movement, and that's part of what makes it so viral. It's not intellectual, it doesn't need a manifesto. People are banding together around an idea, rather than an ideology."
The project was officially announced by organizational spearhead Matt Pizzolo in Wired Magazine on October 13, 2011, several weeks after the occupation of Zuccotti Park began on September 17, 2011.
According to Wired:
Pizzolo's Occupy Comics was originally designed to bring public awareness to the Occupy Wall Street movement. But a combination of growing protests, as well as possibly illegal police pushback, solved the exposure gap. Now Pizzolo is interested in providing illustrative and material support to protesters through a Kickstarter project whose contributors would donate all proceeds to the Wall Street occupiers. "I think it's cool to expand the Occupy movement out of physical spaces and into abstract spaces like comics, so its culture can start occupying shared mindspaces as well as cities," Pizzolo said. "The occupation has to be as pervasive and immersive as possible."
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