Gil Fronsdal

Without images…how could a graphic novel like “Watchmen” exist? Images allow the reader to be taken on a crazy ride through the lives, and stories of the characters all while using both words and images to create a new type of language for the reader to learn. Images, like stated in McCloud matter. In the novel, images are what make the material being read so appealing. Immediately on Page 1, the reader is exposed to a non-sensory image of a blood stained sidewalk which grasps attention right…

Gil Scott-Heron and Home Gil Scott-Heron is considered by many to be the “The Godfather of Rap”, and one of the greatest poets of all time. Many artist have sold more records than Heron, but few artist are able to match the influence Heron’s words have had on many in The Black Community. Growing up, Heron idolized black leaders such as Malcolm X, and black artist such as Langston Hughes. He was following Hughes footsteps when he decided to go to Historically Black College, Lincoln University…

A man consumed by the war he fought. That’s the phrase that comes to mind when reflecting upon the genius that was Gil Scott Heron. Often the appellation of “revolutionist and pioneer is is affixed to this man from the Bronx, whose quavering voice brought realization to the minds of masses the plight that they were in. Punctuating the passing years, Scott heroin with scathing releases, denouncing the systems that subjugate and forward the doctrine of the All Mighty Dollar. Transcending…

"advanced simple mixture sound" of neo soul and "significantly invigorated the digitalized no man's land that was R&B in the late '80s". Neo soul specialists amid the 1990s were intensely enlivened by the varied sound and smooth instrumentation of Gil Scott-Heron's and Brian Jackson's community work in the 1970s. All About Jazz referred to Jackson as "one of the early planners" of the sound and his initial work with Scott-Heron as "a moving and melodic Rosetta stone for the neo-soul…