Rachel Thorn
When you conduct a class via Zoom, from your office, and not a single student shows. Oh, well. I'm getting other things done while waiting.
Like reading this amazing comic on how to read Aztec codices. I bring up these codices in different classes thrice a year, since they are one of the earliest forms of sequential art. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8cq5w8b2
Rachel Thorn
The comic is written by Dr. Felicia Rhapsody Lopez, and drawn by Jordon Collver.
https://ssha.ucmerced.edu/content/felicia-rhapsody-lopez
Rachel Thorn
@22 Aztec codices have been on the radar of comics scholars for quite some time. I would love for Dr. Lopez to do straight-up translations. It would be wonderful if she and maybe Mr. Collver could find some way to do so in a way that preserves the look and feel of the original, yet isn't just text printed below the images. I want her to translate the Nuttall Codex, which is actually a saga, unlike the Borgia Codex she examines here.
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@Rachel_Thorn are there more things like this? I am truly astonished and electrified that something this accessible (that is, targeting the lay public by academics) and this meaningful about Indigenous art was published.
I’d be just surprised if something like this was published about something European like the Books of Kells or maybe Egyptian or Japanese visual culture and am delirious this beatify but am left agog that this penetrating work was done for Aztec art.
Wondering how annoyed Dr Lopez I would be if I emailed her begging to do more maybe via Kickstarter, I would instantly back her. But I would suspect that would be distracting to an academic maybe ?
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