{"id":3652,"date":"2010-07-12T08:30:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T12:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=3652"},"modified":"2010-07-12T08:30:53","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T12:30:53","slug":"comics-are-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=3652","title":{"rendered":"Comics Are for Kids!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/JurgB.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3974\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/JurgB.jpg?resize=210%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Last month, I wrote an <a href=\"http:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/2010\/abigail-solomon-godeau-et-al-birgit-jurgenssen\/\">essay<\/a> for an online magazine about Birgit J\u00fcrgenssen, an Austrian feminist artist whose heyday was in the &#8217;70s and &#8217;80s. In 1994, she issued a booklet called <em>BICASSO J\u00fcrgenssen<\/em>. (It looks exactly like the kind of hand-drawn, simple zines Nieves publishes.) Turns out it&#8217;s a facsimile edition of a journal she kept in 1957, when she was 8. She&#8217;s unschooled as an artist (she&#8217;s 8, so yeah), but in copying works by Picasso\u2014hence the conflation of her name and his to create &#8220;Bicasso&#8221;\u2014she&#8217;s clearly trying to work out some basic ideas while also exercising her imagination. <em>BICASSO J\u00fcrgenssen <\/em>made me think of Brian Chippendale&#8217;s <em>Ninja<\/em>, which incorporates drawings he did in sixth grade into a larger story completed nearly two decades later. All of this made me wonder if there are other comics that are similarly built around work or ideas from childhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, I wrote an essay for an online magazine about Birgit J\u00fcrgenssen, an Austrian feminist artist whose heyday was in the &#8217;70s and &#8217;80s. In 1994, she issued a booklet called BICASSO J\u00fcrgenssen. (It looks exactly like the kind of hand-drawn, simple zines Nieves publishes.) Turns out it&#8217;s a facsimile edition of a journal she kept in 1957, when she was 8. She&#8217;s unschooled as an artist (she&#8217;s 8, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[125,162,271],"class_list":["post-3652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-birgit-jurgenssen","tag-chippendale","tag-comics-vs-art"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}