Mark Staff Brandl: Abstract Comics in Art History Class

Hi to Andrei and the group. Today I showed abstract comics, mostly from the anthology, but also the blog, to one of my Swiss art history classes (the Adult Foundation Course). It went great! I thought you might like to know. Mark

Wolf's Blood - Free PDF

UPDATE: As part of the continuation of this project, I've taken the links down for the time being. If you're particularly keen, email me at gareth@grthink.com

Hi all,

I've made the latest instance of Forestry Commission available to download. It's different frfom the others in a few ways, most notably it uses colour throughout and has text boxes, although still resolutely no narrative.

Download from here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4SfW4B59VgnYnBfTy1XSFhRYWc/view

Find out more about the Forestry Commission project here: https://intercorstal.com/forestry-commission/

Rabbit On The Stairs/A Salted Wound - free D/Ls

UPDATE: As part of the continuation of this project, I've taken the links down for the time being. If you're particularly keen, email me at gareth@grthink.com

Further to my previous post about 'Sugar Forest Fire', I've reworked that comic twice more - once into 'Rabbit On The Stairs', and then again into 'A Salted Wound'. Both are available to download from the following links:

Rabbit On The Stairs
A Salted Wound

'Rabbit On The Stairs' Page 3

'A Salted Wound' Page 3

Comics und Graphic Novels: Eine Einführung Baby

If you read German, there’s a recently released textbook, Comics und Graphic Novels: Eine Einführung by Julia Abel and Christian Klein (Publisher: J.B. Metzler. ISBN: 978-3-476-02553-1), that has a bit about abstract comics in one chapter on medium, form and narrative - “Was ist ein Comic?” :

(Click on image to enlarge)

The original color version of my piece used in the book can be seen here:
http://abstractcomics.blogspot.com/2009/04/hydical.html or here: http://www.getsivizion.com/galleries/purple.htm