This is the first Kebabirstan comix drawn by Steve Wilson about the ventures of Larry Frolick and Don Weber. This one actually precedes the one that I posted yesterday, here. For some reason, over the years, I have always made time to read the newspaper “funnies”.
As Larry states about this comix series:
What this “Welcome to My Country” comic strip was about, incidentally, was the continuing dialogue between image and idea, photo-and-caption vs text-and-illustration. It ran from 2004 to 2006 in OutpostMagazine as a regular feature and always commented on the backstage of the creative process of photo-and-written-journalism — “the backstory is the real story”.
Similar comix that Wilson drew about and inconjunction with Frolick and Weber was the Manitoba series, sample below.
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Kebabistan copyright of Steve Wilson
In a slightly different vane, I recieved this comix drawn by Steve Wilson from Larry Frolick (Mr. Retro-cool), who wrote the text for Donald Weber (yes, “The Snapper” in the comix above) book Bastard Eden, our Chernobyl. Don’s book (reviewed on The Photo Book) was published by Photolucida, one of the three chosen during Critical Mass 2007 to have a book published.
Larry wrote this about the comix that he and Steve created;
The enclosed comix, Kebabistan, was drawn by Steve Wilson, and written by me about our adventures at the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003. Don waded into the thick of knife fights in the grubby streets, massed tanks, mad farmers and unhappy GI’s, right into the shit of war and the craziness it brings to everyone within range of the guns.
The lives of professional photographers and writer, eh?
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Some additional fine tuning and tweaking of this photograph over the last week for the Insomnia project.
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