Jurgen Banned Art Comics Contest
Files
Digital Publisher
VCU Libraries
Publication Date
5-2022
Description
Digital edition of the Jurgen Comics Contest broadsheet newspaper celebrating the 2022 Contest winners. The newspaper design and supplemental artwork was created by contest student editor Alyson Piccione. Supplemental promotional materials include poster, comic, and caricatures of historical figures who played a role in the censorship of James Branch Cabell's work Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice.
The 2022 Jurgen Comics Contest invited VCU students to explore some episode or aspect of the seizure and censorship of James Branch Cabell’s Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice in a single-page, multi-panel comic.
Keywords
comics, contest, censorship, James Branch Cabell, Jurgen, art, student art, newspaper, poster, caricatures
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities
Date of Submission
May 2022
Rights
© The Author
Is Part Of
Jurgen Banned Art Comics Contest
Comments
Contest newspaper and other artwork created by student editor, Alyson Piccione for the first Jurgen Comics Contest, 2021-2022
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.