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Since 1992, every issue of News from Native California has carried a feature loved and anticipated by its subscribers--a cartoon by L. Frank Manriquez. With backwards writing to slow the reader down, each cartoon places us in a whimsical and improbable world, challenging stereotypes about California Indians and preconceptions about life in general. Here we find Coyote in all his guises contradictions, the Creator of the Universe and the Buffoon, the Trickster and the Tricked, the Indian's Wise Fool. Always liminal, L. Frank's Coyote and friends have one foot in the modern world, the other in the ancient. Dressed in a suit and necktie, Coyote waits at a bus stop with a deer-head decoy mask and briefcase. Attending an art museum opening, he thinks of the wine and cheese. He's as modern as any of us, but still he's Coyote!
From the Back Cover
L. Frank's drawings create a whimsical, improbable, yet oddly familiar world. A descendant of the Tongva and Ajachmem people of Southern California, she works with a surgical precision and uniquely twisted sense of humor much admired by natives and non-natives alike. Her drawings address everything from creation stories to the ironies of indegenous life today, often witht he help of Coyote, California's native trickster.
L. Frank's images--collected into book form for the first time--bring withthem an enticing sense of hte ancient life of native California and a taste of hte eccentric, intelligent, subtle humor that has helped it to survive to this day.
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Acorn Soup,L. Frank,Heyday Books,1890771147,Caricatures and cartoons,Comics & Cartoons,History,History: World,Humor,Indians of North America,Native American,World - General
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