Photo by Matt Brooker
Nottingham Does Comics, Writers Studio, Nottingham
Write up from the event:
13/01/2018 – Nottingham Writers Studio
Harriet Lander asked us to consider representations of Sapho, the archaic Greek poet from Lesbos (not the bone condition!). She presented three images depicting the writer, two by Victorians Simeon Solomon and Charles Mengin, and one from a 1970sPlayboy cover, inviting us to compare and contrast. Given that we know almost nothing about Sappho, she would seem wide open to interpretation and use by comics creators, and Harriet flipped through examples found in on-line comics and, of course,Wonder Woman. Perhaps most curious was the example from My Little Pony, but what surprised NDC members most was that academia had buried so deeply into an analysis and consideration of fan art. “Is nothing sacred!?”
Harriet Lander 