Times Like These E-Book

David Ziggy Greene

• Herausgeber: September Publishing
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

Discover the truth behind the headlines with this collection of Private Eye's popular reportage column Scene & Heard, including previously unseen sketches and reports. David Ziggy Greene travels the country asking questions and sketching scenes of modern life. His detailed, funny, astute works of graphic reportage - at protests and festivals, cycle rides, farms and prisons - reveal the human cost of policy and the profound local impact of legislation. This new collection of columns also contains much brand new material - including a series of insightful sketches of human hubs such as A&E, the tube and the courts. With a foreword by Mark Thomas. Please note this is a fixed-format ebook and may not be well-suited for older e-readers.

Leseprobe

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Illumination

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URSULAFLIGHT

Graphic Reports of Modern Life

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First published in 2018 by September Publishing

Copyright © David Ziggy Greene 2018

The right of David Ziggy Greene to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with theCopyright Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Reports, except for those previously unpublished – on pages 16, 17, 26, 27, 38, 39, 48, 49, 60, 61, 68, 69, 84, 85, 96, 97, 104, 105,110, 111, 120, 121, 128, 129 and 142 onwards – are reproduced with kind permission ofPrivate Eye magazine.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or byany means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright holder

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Layout by Clarkevanmeurs Design

ISBN 978-1-910463-94-9

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Early Favourites 2011-2014

2014-2017

A Study in Rush Hour

A Study in Court

A Study in Street Performance

A Study in Flying

A Study in The Seaside

A Study in Hair & Nails

Words

A Study in Working Out

A Study in Monuments

A Study in Austerity

A Study in Patriotism

A Study in A & E

A Study in Captivity

Unpublished

Process

Thanks

David Ziggy Greene is the stand-out cartoonist amongst  

the Private Eye pages. He is unique. It feels totally appropriate  

that a single Scene & Heard column takes up the space of seven  

or eight others, because he has more to say.

Street life, if I can paraphrase Randy Crawford, is the only life  

David knows. Alright, it’s not the only life he knows, but it is  

the one he is obsessed with. He is not the first nor will he be  

the last artist to focus on public spaces – Hogarth famously did,  

as did Robert Crumb. Crumb’s 1960s counter-culture cartoons  

are often filled with his own nostalgia, a yearning for an  

America that made Bakelite records running at 78rpm. Hogarth  

unleashes a satirist’s outrage and contempt. What David does  

is turn cartoons into reportage. David Ziggy Greene shows us  

ourselves. He says, ‘Look at us – it’s interesting.’ In his detailed  

gaze there is warmth and curiosity. He wants to find out more  

and he wants to share.

It doesn’t take a history of art degree to see that he draws  

as if he enjoys people, that he actually likes us, and he delivers  

scenes of contemporary life with incredible skill. In turning the  

spotlight on public events and on the people actually there he  

asks us, ‘Who are these people? Why are they here? What do  

they have to say?’ Like a journalist would.

But it’s reportage with love.

As snapshots of social mores, of attitudes, the columns allow  

us to laugh at ourselves. But David also takes the time to depict  

reality carefully. It’s the opposite of broad-brush reporting – it’s  

true and it’s detailed. He gives us voices and views that don’t  

get heard so often. So when the Scene & Heard column on  

homelessness quotes a man saying ‘Socks, we need socks, they  

never give us socks’, he tells us something both practical and  

emotional about homelessness, making us look with different  

eyes at something we see every day.

When I read Scene & Heard I journey through the country  

– the art and humour coming from the words embedded with  

such detailed depiction. He isn’t just reporting – though the  

quotes are honest and often heartfelt, and always carefully  

chosen. The art comes in the drawing, the juxtaposition of  

scene and words, attitudes and reality. The sum greater than its  

parts. Just like a really good street event.

Mark Thomas, 2018

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These works of illustrated journalism were all created between  

2011 and 2017. A small selection from 2011 to 2014 of which  

I’m particularly fond, and which were published in my first  

collection, appear on pages 1 to 6. From pages 7 to 141 are the  

reports drawn from 2014 onwards, which are collected for the  

first time in book form.

You can read about how my reports came about on pages  

74 to 77.

Reports can involve many hours of interviews, and from  

page 146 there are a number of early preparatory sketches and  

process notes. Some favourite non-published pieces appear on  

pages 142 to 145.

Finally, I have also created a new series of studies in, for  

example, austerity, A&E, airports and zoos, which appear  

throughout the book.

Much gratitude to Private Eye for allowing us to reproduce  

the columns.

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