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19/22

The Writing on the Wall

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

Panel 1/2

A comic titled: Charlie & Rawhide in 'The Writing on the Wall'; panel 1: A detail of a painting of two cowboys on horseback, one trying desperately to stay on his horse; panel 2: A view of the full painting in its gold frame hanging on a wall; panel 3: A low view of a gallery wall showing the corners of several paintings in their frames with a text bubble that reads 'Times change'; panel 4: A woman and a child look at a cowboy painting in a gallery; panel 5: A group of children seated on the floor of a gallery in front of a painting that an educator is pointing to; panel 6: A close-up of a cowboy on horseback in a painting with a text bubble that reads 'And yet here we are'; panel 7: A bronze sculpture of a seated Native American man with a text bubble that reads 'The story can't stay the same ...'; panel 8: A gallery attendant dressed in black stand next to a painting and coughs into his hand; panel 9: A close-up of the face of the sculpture of the Native American man with a text bubble that reads '... can it?'