Collecting Comics

The Collecting Place project and exhibition is in the news. We read on the project's blog:

Many thanks to you all for coming on Sunday and making it an occasion! The video was up and running on Monday morning (with your suggested improvements) and you will be getting a copy of the DVD in the post, if it hasn't come already, along with the catalogue which I'm very pleased with.

I've just heard that the TES are using quite a big picture in this week's issue, out tomorrow Friday 4 May. There was a nice write-up and picture in the Keighley News on 19 April, and there may have been a news item in Amateur Photographer on 18 April, but I've not seen that. There is a full-page feature and pictures in the May edition of Worth Valley Mag. This is a free magazine delivered to local households, also available at Haworth Post Office for example.

Northern Life magazine (monthly) are meant to be running a story about the project.This is another free publication but I don't know where you can find it. (Simon Warner)

We haven't found (yet, here it is) the TES article or the news item in Amateur Photographer, but this is the link to the Worth Valley Magazine (see picture).

On the same blog Andrew McCarthy's opinion about the exhibition can be found:

Congratulations to everyone involved in the Collecting Place. The exhibition is fantastic and offers a genuinely fresh view of some of the places the Brontës knew. I’ve learnt a huge amount about photography and it was wonderful to work on such an unusual project. Visitors are enjoying the exhibition and it’s good that so many people will get to find out about the project through visiting the museum and taking away the catalogue – hope you all liked the catalogue.

We don't know if the very precocious author Nancy Yi Fan (Swordbird) likes photography, but we know that Jane Eyre can be counted among her influences:

Nancy Yi Fan, the 13-year-old author of Swordbird, a New York Times children's best-seller, was working on the fowl fable's prelude and planning a trilogy about the bird story. (...)
I read many, many types of books in Chinese and in English. (...)
"A few years ago I read JANE EYRE". (Xinhua-People's Daily Online)

Ok, that's an exceptional case. On HomeschoolBlogger they suggest that a good way to introduce classics to high school students can be through comic adaptations. The Classics Illustrated Comic Books have been featured previously on this blog, but now we can provide a link to read a whole comic online: Wuthering Heights (Classic Illustrated No 59, 1949), illustrated by Henry C. Kiefer.

Let's finish with a comment extracted from an article published in The Mail&Guardian about plagiarism and identity theft in modern literature:

Of course, the greatest identity theft and character plagiarism in literature was when the second part of Don Quixote was put out under the name of Alonso Fernandez de Avellaneda, even as Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was completing his part two. Cervantes at least had the chance to hit back directly, writing into his story some of the false Quixote’s absurdities and lampooning them and their author.
Dead writers have no such recourse. So it is that Charlotte Brontë, Virginia Woolf, Daphne du Maurier, Conan Doyle and Margaret Mitchell, among legions, have had their characters filched -- and more often than not abused.( Darryl Accone)

Categories: Art-Exhibitions,Brontë Parsonage Museum,Comics, In the News, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights