Chicken Lips: A work in progress

Un fanzine carré numéro D

Hello everybody,

a short note (I am in some kind of hurry)  to let you know that the Editions Hécatombe from Geneva just released the D-th number of their "fanzine" series "Un fanzine carré". It contains three twenty-pages abstract comics by Macchia, Thomas Perrodin and myself.

http://unfanzine.com/un-fanzine-carre-numero-d/

The website is in french, but you can  have a look at a sample of the pages.

I really like the fact that absolutely nothing is written on this book, neither the title, the name of the authors, signatures, etc, just plain abstract comics. I had posted some pages of my piece on this blog, actually. I don't know if it is possible to order the fanzine or its cost (EDIT: I just saw that the price is 11€), but I can ask the publisher if someone is interested.

A sequence from a work in progress

Disparate pages from a book-length photocomic in progress

Cross-posted with blotcomics, where you can see more pages.

Thocave

My pieces in "Re-Constructing Comics," Lakeland College, Sheboygan, WI

I'm featured in this excellent show along with six of my favorite cartoonists. It was curated by Peter Sattler. Everything else you need to know is on the invite.

More pics of the entire show here.
(cross-posted with blotcomics)

Cy Twombly, Poems to the Sea, 1959

And details at a different exposure:

Sold on Wednesday at Sotheby's New York

Rage by Mayhem

Excursus

Abstract in another sense: Thinking about metaphor and art theory and my own oeuvre in the form of a comic book. My latest on Metaphor and Art: http://www.metaphorandart.com/articles/excursus.html

Snake Skin Subtext, by Brian A. Kenny

Here are the first 5 pages of Brian A. Kenny's graphic novel Snake Skin Subtext.

It's distributed by A Raven Above Press, & available here & here.

The symbolism reminds me of Tarot cards & Egyptian mythology, & has a ritualistic feeling. The narrative feels like an internal, psychic drama rather than events occurring in the outside world. It's abstract inasmuch as it doesn't rely on drawings of consensus reality.

Like no other book I can recall. (A distant cousin would be Italo Calvino's The Castle of Crossed Destinies.)

incident 4:30 by Rosaire Appel

This is currently on view at the International Print Center of New York (508 West 26 St. NYC) www.ipcny.org
opening reception November 7, 7-9
through November 30th
Everyone is welcome!

"Spring in the House"

This collection of miniature penjing in a bogu frame, by Li Yunlong, is titled Spring in the House. Photo borrowed from Penjing: The Chinese Art of Bonsai by Zhao Qingquan (Better Link Press, 2012).

Previously, I posted other penjing photos here & here.

A book full of these would be pretty nice.