tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post7611905484551048068..comments2024-01-30T02:12:25.330-05:00Comments on Eddie Campbell: polka dots or not.Eddie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02492020671613766729noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-57577230917542947112007-10-08T19:27:00.000-05:002007-10-08T19:27:00.000-05:00Hello Eddie,The beat goes on! As of the evening o...Hello Eddie,<BR/><BR/>The beat goes on! As of the evening of Oct. 8, "The Fate of the Artist" has referred 14 of the most recent 100 visitors to the AfriClassical blog. I have added your blog to my list of Favorite Blogs, and I have been reading it frequently.<BR/><BR/>Best wishes,<BR/>Bill ZickWilliam J. Zickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17779551426810486040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-80589915742361488372007-10-07T14:21:00.000-05:002007-10-07T14:21:00.000-05:00Hello Eddie,I am delighted to hear of your stack o...Hello Eddie,<BR/>I am delighted to hear of your stack of Saint-Georges CDs! We need more classical music fans who are open to great music by Saint-Georges and other composers of color. Your posts have brought hundreds of visitors to my blog! Please see my blog for a comment on Minstrelsy: <BR/>http://africlassical.blogspot.com/<BR/>Best wishes,<BR/>Bill ZickWilliam J. Zickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17779551426810486040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-7223562708290842572007-10-06T00:30:00.000-05:002007-10-06T00:30:00.000-05:00yeah... i cant see it. people like over reacting.....yeah... i cant see it. <BR/><BR/>people like over reacting...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-8824735406767019172007-10-04T17:52:00.000-05:002007-10-04T17:52:00.000-05:00Saint-George was a handsome and dashing mulatto (I...Saint-George was a handsome and dashing mulatto (I hope the term isn't deemed racist: he had a black mother and a white father, is all I mean) who cut quite a dashing figure at court and dazzled the ladies. In that context, I fail to see how caricaturing him as a handsome negro serenading a bushel of excited damsels is racist. <BR/><BR/>Yeah, the drawing look a bit dashed off (he is capable of much better, but I suppose a lifetime of doing fast cartoons for various satirical papers may have skewed his style toward haste) and the chosen colours are rather garish. But Cabu is a black & white (absolutely no pun intended) cartoonist, and colour is definitely not his strong suit. I still fail to see any racist intend in this caricature. <BR/><BR/>You should see his caricatures of French white politicos.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-84837062141061498342007-10-04T06:27:00.000-05:002007-10-04T06:27:00.000-05:00http://www.mozarteffect.com/MoreOnTME/Newsletter/M...http://www.mozarteffect.com/MoreOnTME/Newsletter/MERC0501.htmlEddie Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02492020671613766729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-48323633675060391412007-10-04T06:15:00.000-05:002007-10-04T06:15:00.000-05:00I could be wrong, but I'm pretty certain that illo...I could be wrong, but I'm pretty certain that illo of the young Mozart is taken from a photo of a statue of same. I used a photo of said statue on a design job years ago...it would account for Robinson's knowing how to hold a violin and depict period costume(it's a very nice drawing just the same).<BR/><BR/>I doubt Bill Leak had any photos of Mozart on the loo to refer to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-10489991291704642942007-10-04T04:37:00.000-05:002007-10-04T04:37:00.000-05:00polka-dots are racist?oooh-kay...Maybe that author...polka-dots are racist?<BR/><BR/>oooh-kay...<BR/><BR/>Maybe that author has a trauma and had to wear polkadot shirts to school and was bullied by big burly mistrals of african persuasion.<BR/><BR/>I really cannot find another logical reason over this cover.<BR/><BR/>(that statement would make for a nice funny t-shirt, though)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-7182029669727412382007-10-04T04:08:00.000-05:002007-10-04T04:08:00.000-05:00The gist of that Zick fellow's racism argument see...The gist of that Zick fellow's racism argument seems to rely on polkadot being a "minstral" or "clown" pattern.<BR/><BR/>Not sure how far back the association with clowns goes, but I'm pretty sure the polkadots associated with clowns have always been big polkadots.<BR/><BR/>As for an association with minstrals, I can't say myself I'm aware of one, and a quick google turned up naught.<BR/><BR/>What that illo looks like the most to me, in fact, is a pyjama top!<BR/><BR/>Reading between the lines of Mr Zick's deconstruction of the letter-in-defence from the record company, however, I do note that he seems to be very unhappy with the Author, and I rather suspect he's actually unhappy for some other unspoken reason, and using a manufactured concern as a cover.<BR/><BR/>It's not the best comic image in the world, either, but I'm not sure it deserves the ragging it's being given over there...<BR/><BR/><I>(no offense meant and none should be taken, all opinions my own blah blah, I am a well-known idiot blah blah, etc...)</I>drjonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14351916590417179786noreply@blogger.com