Crowdfund the reprinted adventures of Canada’s first superheroine

This week , we have a few mathematical group of mass look to play historic works of art to a modern hearing . There are the reprinted adventures of Nelvana , a superheroine from Canada ’s Golden Age , a publishing of nineteenth - 100 illustrations for Poe ’s “ The Raven , ” and a documentary about a famed prudish stuffer .

Nelvana of the Northern Lights: Canada’s First Superheroine

In 1941 , Adrian Dingle create the comic book character Nelvana , instigate by Inuit stories of a mysterious goddess - like figure . Nelvana appeared in Triumph - Adventure Comics ( just predating the first appearance of Wonder Woman in All Star Comics ) , and carry as a feature in 31 issues . She was one of the most popular characters in the Canadian Golden Age of comics . funnies historian Hope Nicholson and Rachel Richey have acquired the rights to reprint the Nelvana comics , and desire to fetch her to a broad audience . They ’re offer a digital version of Nelvana for a $ 15 bounder assurance and the print Nelvana Holy Scripture for a $ 30 CAD pledge .

Publish James Carling Illustrations of Poe’s “The Raven”

In the 1880s , artist James Carling make a serial of stormy illustrationsfor Edgar Allan Poe ’s celebrated verse form “ The Raven , ” but the images were n’t publish in Carling ’s lifetime . The Virginia Association of Museums has nominate these persona among“Virginia ’s Top 10 Most Endangered Artifacts . ”The Poe Museum , which possesses the illustrations , is heighten money to preserve , prepare , and publish a book of account of these skittish and striking images . The museum is offer a print of one Carling ’s illustrations for a $ 2o pledge , and a copy of the leger along with an invitation to the Koran political party for a $ 50 assurance .

Walter Potter Doc: Finishing Funds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbm3GHOeXVU

Walter Potter was a taxidermist of the strait-laced Era whose luxuriant dioramas feature kitty , bunny , and birds in often anthropomorphous mannerism . This documentary on Potter and his work , titled Where Kittens We d and Birds Lament and develop bythe Midnight ArchiveandMorbid Anatomy , was the subject of an earlier crowdfunding safari , but take a little more money for its product . This is for folks who really need to see the project dispatch , but the filmmakers are offering postcard at the low pledge levels . [ viaMorbid Anatomy ]

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