Jurgen Banned Art Comics Contest
Digital Publisher
VCU Libraries
Publication Date
2-2022
Description
Runner-up award in the 2022 Jurgen Banned Art Comics Contest.
Playing with sight gags and double-entendre, this comic refers to James Branch Cabell's own response to New York Society for the Suppression of Vice censor John S. Sumner. Cabell wrote a satirical fable called "The Judging of Jurgen," featuring a tumblebug, or dung beetle, who made accusations against King Jurgen in the court of Philistia.
Keywords
comics, contest, censorship, James Branch Cabell, Jurgen, tumblebug, beetles, art, student art
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities
Date of Submission
April 2022
Rights
© The Author
Is Part Of
Jurgen Banned Art Comics Contest
Comments
Runner-up award in the 2022 Jurgen Banned Art Comics Contest sponsored by VCU Libraries.
The 2022 contest invited VCU students to explore an episode or aspect of the seizure and censorship of James Branch Cabell’s Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice.