Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection, Volume 1 ed. by Hope Nicholson (review)

Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection, Volume 1. Edited by Hope Nicholson. Toronto: Alternate History Comics, 2015. 174 pp.Buffy sainte-Marie's iconic 1970s song Moonshot frames the same that inspires Hope Nicholson's edited anthology, Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection. The mixture of science fiction imagery and ecology, of earthbound futures and space-bound history, permeate this sublime collection of folktales. The story behind the song is that sainte-Marie wrote it after conversation with Christian scholars who didn't realize that indigenous people had already been contact with the Creator before europeans conquered (buffysainte-marie.com). From the foreword, Nicholson writes that she chose the title because the song details the concepts of extraterrestrial and religious contact present . . . native communities across North America long before colonization. As a collection, the visual impact of comic art reaffirms the visceral impact of these traditionally oral stories, allowing the indigenous authors and artists to guide these cultural artifacts through new audiences and generations.The anthology begins with an excerpt from a series starring the Marvel superhero Daredevil, a blind lawyer who fights crime New York City's Hell's Kitchen. written and illustrated by David Mack, vision Quest: gives a strong sense of what is visually and textually possible what has been a homogenizing medium through much of comics' early history. Told through the words of echo, a Native and Latin superhero, the striking visuals resemble a collage, incorporating indian sign children's drawings, detailed surveillance sketches, and watercolors. Balancing the visual imagery and the text, when echo says the beginning, My life is a foreign film with no subtitles, you are forced to the language, the words and art on the page become more fragmentary. From there echo's writing engages the physical space of the page, flowing the margins and dictating at odd angles, forcing the reader to turn and twist their as the textual interaction becomes tangible and we are forced to learn her language.Curiosity functions as motivation many folktales, and here we are given different takes on this folklore archetype. Coyote and the Pebbles, writer Dayton edmonds and artist Micah Farritor present the coyote as a trickster, conflagrating the constellations with his carelessness just as the creatures of the night get permission to fill the dark sky with their portraits, setting the stars place with shiny pebbles. whereas all the animals shift between human and animal form, each is represented distinctly diverse ethnic visages, affirming the varied aesthetics of indigenous people the global community. David Robertson and Haiwei Hou's story Ochek follows a young fisher who, after a squirrel tells him a secret return for letting the rodent live, persuades his father that there is warmth in the place where the skyland meets the earth. Ue-Pucase: water Master, writer Arigon starr and artist David Cutler retell a Muscogee Creek story about two men who are warned not to eat found eggs on the riverbank, and soon one of them becomes a snake after disregarding the warning. …

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