About this episode

R Sikoryak discusses his new double book that adapts foundational American documents through comic art parodies.

Virtual Memories Show 683: R Sikoryak “By contrasting the Declaration with the Emancipation Proclamation, I was showing some of the evolution that also happens in the Constitution.” Let’s celebrate (or commemorate) America’s independence with an amazing new double book, DECLARATION ILLUSTRATED / EMANCIPATION ILLUSTRATED (Drawn & Quarterly). R. Sikoryak rejoins the show to talk about adapting foundational American documents (verbatim!) with a mind-blowing array of comic art parodies, ranging from the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers to Jump Start to Check, Please! to Thanos! We talk about how this project spun out of his CONSTITUTION ILLUSTRATED in 2020, why he decided to include the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address alongside the Declaration of Independence, how he gave himself some pretty strict rules about which artists and characters he could and couldn’t use, including not re-using artists he used in his Constitution (which meant employing 200 different artists’ styles over the course of these books), and his goal of trying to bring the whole history of American comics into these books. We get into what it’s all…

People in this episode

Host: Gil Roth

Guest: R Sikoryak

Topics covered

• comic art parodies
• American documents
• history of American comics
• parody
• artistic adaptation

Keywords

• R Sikoryak
• comic art
• parody
• American history
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Declaration of Independence
• artistic adaptation

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: DECLARATION ILLUSTRATED, EMANCIPATION ILLUSTRATED, CONSTITUTION ILLUSTRATED, Gettysburg Address, Declaration of Independence

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