![]() ![]() ![]() He dissects the vocabulary of the medium, cheerfully analyzing the psychological power of comics and their central role in our ultra-visual culture. But it's McCloud's accessible and quite amusing discussion of realism, abstraction and visual perception that forms the heart of this survey. Beginning in the 11th century with the Bayeux tapestry, he examines pre-Columbian picture languages and the printing press, presenting a quick survey of the historical development of early sequential pictures into the specialized visual language of comics. McCloud (who wrote a comic-book series called Zot! ) conducts a genial, well-researched and funny tour of virtually every historical and perceptual aspect of comics, which he calls ``sequential art,'' that is, art that consists of sequences of words and pictures. ![]() This is a rare and exciting work that ingeniously uses comics to examine the medium itself. ![]()
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![]() Later that year, Arnold led an ill-fated expedition on a harrowing trek from Maine to Quebec. ![]() Acting under a commission from the revolutionary government of Massachusetts, Arnold partnered with Vermont frontiersman Ethan Allen and Allen’s Green Mountain Boys to capture the unsuspecting British garrison at Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York on May 10, 1775. ![]() When the Revolutionary War broke out between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies in April 1775, Arnold joined the Continental Army. The couple had three children before Margaret’s death in 1775. In 1767, Arnold, who became a prosperous trader, married Margaret Mansfield. As a young man, Arnold apprenticed at an apothecary business and served in the militia during the French and Indian War. His mother came from a wealthy family, but his alcoholic father squandered their estate. ![]() Benedict Arnold was born on January 14, 1741, in Norwich, Connecticut. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mitchell's family on her father's side were descendants of Thomas Mitchell, originally of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, who settled in Wilkes County, Georgia in 1777, and served in the American Revolutionary War. Įugene Muse Mitchell, the father of Margaret Mitchell She had two brothers, Russell Stephens Mitchell, who died in infancy in 1894, and Alexander Stephens Mitchell, born in 1896. Her father, Eugene Muse Mitchell, was an attorney, and her mother, Mary Isabel "Maybelle" Stephens, was a suffragist and Catholic activist. She was born in 1900 into a wealthy and politically prominent family. Margaret Mitchell was a Southerner, a native and lifelong resident of Georgia. A collection of newspaper articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form. ![]() ![]() Long after her death, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, titled Lost Laysen, were published. Mitchell wrote only one novel, published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Fiction for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (Novem– August 16, 1949) was an American novelist and journalist. ![]() |