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Bikini Atoll is in Micronesia. Yet the discussion and a caption refer to Polynesia. And the people who suffered from the Bikini fallout were not Polynesians, but Micronesians, and in particular the Marshall Islanders.... So I dispute the reference of this discussion to Polynesia. It should be changed to Micronesia, at least, if not Marshall Islands. Seraphimek ( talk) 05:34, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
An issue of Canadian Art has a review of Southern Cross. I can't tell which issue it is—the Google Books result is a package of volumes 8 to 10 (1950—1952). I'd love to get my hands on this ... Curly Turkey ( gobble) 23:33, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
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Reviewer: J Milburn ( talk · contribs) 21:08, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Looks like a fascinating topic; I'm happy to offer a review. J Milburn ( talk) 21:08, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
The Globe and Mail (Canada)
December 15, 2007 Saturday
We always knew politics was a comic affair; In the season's harvest of graphic novels, Nathalie Atkinson finds that the personal is political (and vice versa)
BYLINE: Nathalie Atkinson
SECTION: BOOK REVIEW; GRAPHICA: NATHALIE ATKINSON; Pg. D12
Graphic Witness, edited by George Walker (Firefly, 423 pages, $29.95), has four wordless stories told in wood carvings. Out of print for years, these stories - by Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward, Giacomo Patri and Laurence Hyde - belong to an early type of visual storytelling which, as Seth points out in his afterword, owes as much to silent film as to comics.
Earnest and largely political, this format had its heyday in the 1920s and '30s, usually dealing with the oppressed underclass. The one Canadian offering, Southern Cross, is from 1951, and while the concerns are different - Pacific island atom bomb tests - the earnestness remains. Great publishing minds think alike, and Drawn & Quarterly has published Southern Cross (255 pages, $27.95) in a beautiful facsimile edition, reproducing the 118 wood engravings in their original 4- by 3-inch format.
The Observer (England)
November 25, 2007
Review: BOOKS: The mating call of a Wessex girl...: GRAPHIC NOVELS: Posy Simmonds updates Hardy while Nick Abadzis is drawn to a high-flying dog
BYLINE: ROGER SABIN
SECTION: OBSERVER REVIEW BOOKS PAGES; Pg. 29
Another facet of the Cold War is covered in Laurence Hyde's Southern Cross: A Novel of the South Seas (Drawn & Quarterly £ 18.95, pp256) , a reprint of a woodcut novel from 1951 about the testing of an atomic bomb in the Bikini Atoll. In 118 painstakingly engraved and virtually wordless pages, the idyllic life of the Polynesian islanders is shattered as they are evacuated and then have to deal with the ecological consequences of the explosion. Alas, the thousands of hours of work that must have gone into the book were wasted on a well-meaning but facile piece of agit-prop. A pretty picture of a dying fish does not a convincing polemic make.
Hope this has been helpful. Really interesting topic, definitely worth writing about. (Images and spotchecks look fine). J Milburn ( talk) 21:50, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Ok, I'm happy that this article is ready for GA status. I suspect there's not really enough material out there for FA status; perhaps there will be a few reviews and analyses tucked away in hard-to-access sources that you could dig up. In any case, the articles in great shape now, and makes for a good GA. J Milburn ( talk) 11:10, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
Southern Cross (wordless novel) is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so. | |||||||||||||
This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on February 18, 2017. | |||||||||||||
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A
fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the "
Did you know?" column on
April 1, 2014. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the novel
Southern Cross does not contain any words? | |||||||||||||
Current status: Featured article |
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Bikini Atoll is in Micronesia. Yet the discussion and a caption refer to Polynesia. And the people who suffered from the Bikini fallout were not Polynesians, but Micronesians, and in particular the Marshall Islanders.... So I dispute the reference of this discussion to Polynesia. It should be changed to Micronesia, at least, if not Marshall Islands. Seraphimek ( talk) 05:34, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
An issue of Canadian Art has a review of Southern Cross. I can't tell which issue it is—the Google Books result is a package of volumes 8 to 10 (1950—1952). I'd love to get my hands on this ... Curly Turkey ( gobble) 23:33, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
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Reviewer: J Milburn ( talk · contribs) 21:08, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Looks like a fascinating topic; I'm happy to offer a review. J Milburn ( talk) 21:08, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
The Globe and Mail (Canada)
December 15, 2007 Saturday
We always knew politics was a comic affair; In the season's harvest of graphic novels, Nathalie Atkinson finds that the personal is political (and vice versa)
BYLINE: Nathalie Atkinson
SECTION: BOOK REVIEW; GRAPHICA: NATHALIE ATKINSON; Pg. D12
Graphic Witness, edited by George Walker (Firefly, 423 pages, $29.95), has four wordless stories told in wood carvings. Out of print for years, these stories - by Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward, Giacomo Patri and Laurence Hyde - belong to an early type of visual storytelling which, as Seth points out in his afterword, owes as much to silent film as to comics.
Earnest and largely political, this format had its heyday in the 1920s and '30s, usually dealing with the oppressed underclass. The one Canadian offering, Southern Cross, is from 1951, and while the concerns are different - Pacific island atom bomb tests - the earnestness remains. Great publishing minds think alike, and Drawn & Quarterly has published Southern Cross (255 pages, $27.95) in a beautiful facsimile edition, reproducing the 118 wood engravings in their original 4- by 3-inch format.
The Observer (England)
November 25, 2007
Review: BOOKS: The mating call of a Wessex girl...: GRAPHIC NOVELS: Posy Simmonds updates Hardy while Nick Abadzis is drawn to a high-flying dog
BYLINE: ROGER SABIN
SECTION: OBSERVER REVIEW BOOKS PAGES; Pg. 29
Another facet of the Cold War is covered in Laurence Hyde's Southern Cross: A Novel of the South Seas (Drawn & Quarterly £ 18.95, pp256) , a reprint of a woodcut novel from 1951 about the testing of an atomic bomb in the Bikini Atoll. In 118 painstakingly engraved and virtually wordless pages, the idyllic life of the Polynesian islanders is shattered as they are evacuated and then have to deal with the ecological consequences of the explosion. Alas, the thousands of hours of work that must have gone into the book were wasted on a well-meaning but facile piece of agit-prop. A pretty picture of a dying fish does not a convincing polemic make.
Hope this has been helpful. Really interesting topic, definitely worth writing about. (Images and spotchecks look fine). J Milburn ( talk) 21:50, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Ok, I'm happy that this article is ready for GA status. I suspect there's not really enough material out there for FA status; perhaps there will be a few reviews and analyses tucked away in hard-to-access sources that you could dig up. In any case, the articles in great shape now, and makes for a good GA. J Milburn ( talk) 11:10, 22 March 2014 (UTC)