Thursday, December 22, 2016

Street Dawgz


StreetDawgs

Street Dawgz is a 24-page black-and-white mini comic 4" x 6" with six panels per page. It stars for dogs that live in cardboard box, eat crack bones, and generally cause trouble. They are self-aware, and somewhat philosophical. One of the dogs eats too many crack bones, and his musings are so insightful that the other dogs grabbed a pen try to write them down. There is a joke about the immigrant crisis with a fox representing one of the immigrants.

Lizz Lunney is the author and artists; she is of British extraction, living in Berlin. There are 21 million refugees in the world, and many of them come to "first-world" countries as immigrants. The fox speaks a very British dialect despite being an immigrant. The use of different animals to represent different nationalities goes back hundreds of years in comics. This technique was most famously used in Maus by Art Spiegelman.

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