Resources on Emily Dickinson & Cartoons
Books
“The Poet as Cartoonist: Pictures Sewed to Words," Emily Dickinson: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Judith Farr.
New Century Views, Richard Brodhead, Maynard Mack, Series Editors (Prentice-Hall 1996), 225-239.
"Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson" (78-82), "Cartoons" (42-43), "Humor" 149-150), Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia, ed. Jane Eberwein (Greenwood P, 1998).
Websites
EmilyDickinson.org -- "Dickinson, Cartoonist""Cartoonist: Emily Dickinson was not a cartoonist in the sense of our contemporaries Garry Trudeau or Charles Schultz or T.O. Sylvester, yet she did animate her words with visual designs--layouts made from cutouts from a Dickens novel, from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, from a New England Primer, from a three-cent stamp featuring a Baldwin locomotive, and from the attachment of a flower or pine needle (F 24, 704n p. 539) to top or dress a poem or missive; drawings around the embossed Capitol building on her father's Congressional stationery, in a note about the "Music of the Spheres" sent next door to her sister-in-law, and within the exaggerated calligraphies that begin to emerge so dramatically in the 1860s, when the poet appears to have been at the height of copying and sending out her poems to a wide range of readers."
"Some of her "cartoons" have been interrogated at length in Martha Nell Smith's "The Poet as Cartoonist" and in Jeanne Hollands's "Scraps, Stamps, and Cutouts: Emily Dickinson's Domestic Technologies of Publication"."
Emily Dickinson International Society
Etruscan Invitations:
Dickinson and the Anxiety of the Aesthetic in Feminist Criticism
By MARY LOEFFELHOLZ
Note 15:
In Comic Power in Emily Dickinson, Suzanne Juhasz, Cristanne Miller, and Martha Nell Smith give the embodied feminist aesthetics of Dickinson's manuscripts another interesting interpretive twist, connecting Dickinson's "striptease, cartoons, and excessive grotesquerie" to "stand-up women's comedy": "Imagine [Dickinson] up there on the stage, with the wit and hutzpah of Mae West, the bravado of Carol Burnett, and the drollery of Lucille Ball" (138).
Carin Perron's "Topics in Animation"
About Lynn Tomlinson:"Tomlinson began animating as an undergraduate majoring in English at Cornell University. She continued her studies in animation at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, earning a master's degree. She also received an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. Her first film, I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died, a stirring and eerie interpretation of a poem by Emily Dickinson, won the animation prize at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Director's Choice in the Black Maria Festival, and several other awards. It appears on PBS stations and the BRAVO cable network, and is included on a video collection entitled Animation of the Apocalypse."