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10/22

Passing Through

  • Ian Sampson, Cartoonist, Printmaker, and Interdisciplinary Educator, West Virginia University

Panel 1/2

A comic titled: Charlie & Rawhide in 'Passing Through'; panel 1: Looking at a Native American dress hanging on a wall, Rawhide says 'There's more to these objects than you can see, Russ.'; panel 2: A close-up of Rawhide's face as he says 'This ain't just a trinket you buy.'; panel 3: A closer view of the Native American dress; panel 4: Looking distressed, Charlie says 'I ... I know that!'; panel 5: Rawhide, looking more closely at the dress, says 'You don't know nothin.'; panel 6: A pair of beaded Native American gloves beneath Rawhide's words 'The women who made these put everything in 'em ...'; panel 7: A beaded pouch is featured as Rawhide continues 'Their feelings, their knowledge, the Mokakssini of the Blackfeet.'; panel 8: The beaded dress appears to float among stars above the words 'It is community.'