Writer of the Patricia Highsmash column. Former editor of Along the Chaparral, Future Earth Magazine & Platte Valley Review. Author of Examining New X-Men & Us Living in Fictional Cosmogonies. Guest Presenter at Naropa University, University of California Riverside, and Harbin Institute. Former faculty, Shandong University. New film, low fruit, at https://bit.ly/2zvuzcs
Art, kitsch, entertainment & fun. For betterment & guilty pleasure. The good, bad & corrective Jack Kirby’s New Gods, Mr Miracle, Forever People, Fourth World & the value of everything in a comic book. #PatriciaHighsmash #UsLivingInFictionalCosmogonies
DetailsParliament-Funkadelic, Eddie Hazel @george_clinton, Pedro Bell, Sly Stone @Bootsy_Collins, Chaka Khan, Robert and Ronald Bell, Overton Loyd @JunieMorrison James Brown & the funk sound and ethos! #UsLivingInFictionalCosmogonies #PatriciaHighsmash
DetailsThe quest, the pilgrimage, the experiential and survivance narrative in Jack Kirby’s Fourth World. Physical comedy, absurdism, satire, sorrow, social realism with Orion, Superman & Darkseid.
DetailsBuoyed by Arthur Schopenhauer, Miyako Maki, Rintaro, Herman Hesse, Franz Schubert, the kairological cyclic cosmogony of Leiji Matsumoto. #CaptainHarlock #Emeraldas #Maetel #GalaxyExpress999 #UsLivingInFictionalCosmogonies
DetailsJack Kirby explored desire in Mr Miracle, hunger in New Gods, want in Jimmy Olsen. What is it to want? To be consumed with, controlled by, or to escape wants? #UsLivingInFictionalCosmogonies #PatriciaHighsmash
Details#UsLivingInFictionalCosmogonies covers many beloved fictive universes & name creators, but approaching Toni Morrison? Vladimir Nabokov? Mary Lambert? Octavia Butler? Princess Diaries? A Different World? Doc McStuffins? Do our biases guide or only misguide?
DetailsPATRICIA HIGHSMASH: @mfrost11 @DAVID_LYNCH @LeslilinkaG @Kyle_MacLachlan put together the mixed box of jigsaw pieces & old saws #TwinPeaks. We make a meal of it. #PatriciaHighsmash #UsLivingInFictionalCosmogenies
DetailsPATRICIA HIGHSMASH: The sociopolitical concerns of @JackKirby’s #FourthWorld comics are vibrant & necessary today. #UsLivingInFictionalCosmogenties #patriciahighsmash
DetailsPATRICIA HIGHSMASH: 30 years of aging characters in real time has affected @ErikJLarsen’s #SavageDragon, its audiences, its author & the minor panic attack I have each time something bad might happen to a totally fictional person I love. #PatriciaHighsmash
DetailsPATRICIA HIGHSMASH: In New Gods, Forever People, Mr. Miracle, #Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen, @JackKirby reached out to us, spoke to us, showed us. #UsLivingInFictionalCosmogonies #PatriciaHighsmash
DetailsPATRICIA HIGHSMASH: Tailored dreams. Genderqueer #Beetlejuice. #Godzilla vs Reality. What #NeonGenesisEvangelion & Hideaki Anno are really about & how it sells merchandise. #UsLivingInFictionalCosmogonies #PatriciaHighsmash
DetailsPATRICIA HIGHSMASH: Poetic, cosmic, philosophical, @JackKirby’s #FourthWorld comics introduced #Darkseid, Big Barda, Dan Turpin & taught generations to look for all relevant meaning. #UsLivingInFictionalCosmogonies #PatriciaHighsmash
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