Co-featured with
MR. FISH: CARTOONING FROM THE DEEP END; please see separate listing to purchase tickets.
From comic strips to cosplay, Harleen Singh’s film finds encouraging signs of progressive change in forums once solely devoted to juvenile entertainment—and to a middle-class WASP perspective. Her primary subjects are three distinctive artist personalities. Keith Knight has used newspaper strip “The K Chronicles” and other ongoing outlets to sharply yet humorously critique racial issues, not least police violence against African Americans. In response to heightened hostility towards minorities after 9/11, Vishavjit Singh began creating editorial cartoons—then extended his ideas to wearing a Captain America costume in public, the “altered” image invariably stirring discussion thanks to his Sikh beard and turban. Eileen Kaur Alden is a confessed lifelong nerd girl whose combined feminist beliefs and love of superhero-style adventure led her to co-create the comic book series “SuperSikh.” The boundaries of representation are changing—even in the “funny papers,” even amongst spandex-wearing champions of truth and justice.
IN PERSON: Director Harleen Singh, Editor Tal Skloot, Film Subjects Keith Knight and Eileen Kaur AldenThank you to our community partner
Marin Arts.