Cowboyster--by all means, please show me what you are referring to. Links would be great. When I put the book together, I couldn't find any women cartoonists working in abstract comics. Others couldn't find them either. Since the blog came up, there have been a few--especially Nina Roos and Satu Kaikkonen--but, really, there wasn't anyone I could find for the book itself.
I will email you a list of links and what not. Although it may be debatable as to whether or not some of the woman artists I have in mind are "cartoonist working in abstact comics" but are creating abstract art that may be defined as "comics". But in the meantime, check out some of the artists/cartoonist featured in kutikuti or nazi knife. Nina and Satu's work is really amazing! I hadn't seen their work before following your blog, thank you. Keep up the great work!
Thanks, please send me the links. Have you actually seen the book itself? I know Kutikuti and that entire scene, but I'm not sure anything from there would have really fit as real "abstract comics" in the anthology; most still has too much representation. Some of Tommi Musturi's pages, maybe (but then, he's not a woman either)--but I'm not convinced his abstract pages actually function as abstract comics...
I didn't know "Nazi Knife." But looking at previews online, it seems to be primarily graphics, not comics; so, again, there are some abstract pages, but not really abstract comics that I can find. Not to mention that they don't identify the pages by artists, so I can't tell which ones are women anyway.
The first and most comprehensive source of abstract comics on the web, tracing the history and surveying the contemporary landscape of abstract sequential art.
On Abstract Comics: The Anthology (Currently SOLD OUT):
The artists assembled by Andrei Molotiu for his anthology ABSTRACT COMICS (Fantagraphics, $39.99) push “cartooning” to its limits... It’s a fascinating book to stare at, and as with other kinds of abstract art, half the fun is observing your own reactions: anyone who’s used to reading more conventional sorts of comics is likely to reflexively impose narrative on these abstractions, to figure out just what each panel has to do with the next.
--Douglas Wolk, New York Times Book Review, Holiday Books edition, December 6, 2009 The collection has a wealth of rewarding material... it is a significant historical document that may jump-start an actual new genre.
--Doug Harvey, LA Weekly It becomes a treat to take a page of art - or a simple panel - and consider how the shapes, texture, depth, and color interact with one another; to reflect on how, when one takes the time, the enjoyment one ordinarily finds in reading a purely textually-oriented, narrative-driven written story can - with the graphic form - be translated into something completely different.
--Adam Waterreus, Politics and Prose, "Favorite Graphic Literature of the Year."
...this arresting book is like a scoop of primordial narrative, representational mud. Which is to say, it has vitaminic powers.
--Design Observer
For years, comics (at least American ones) have doggedly refused for one reason or another, to consider other schools of art and beyond mere representation. It's only now we see artists attempting to branch out and try to push at the edge's of the medium's definition. As such I found Abstract Comics to be a revealing, thought-provoking and genuinely lovely book that I'll be sure to be rereading in the months to come.
Nice!
ReplyDeleteWahoo! It looks wonderful. i'm impressed by the quality of the pages we can see! Very happy to be in it!
ReplyDeleteGrand! Love the format. It looks like an intriguing project.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely tremendous! Gorgeous samples.
ReplyDeletei am drool jawdropt wordless.
ReplyDeleteit are looker amazing!
I gotta get me one of those.
ReplyDeleteIt takes some real bawls to publish something like that.
Why, thank you sir!
ReplyDeleteWOW wow wow! CanNOT wait! Thanks a million for your engagement Andrei!
ReplyDeleteI'm so anxious to see this !!!!
ReplyDeletei just knew something like this exist in kosmos. i will find this book.
ReplyDeleteAwesome book! but why no females? I've seen tons of wonderful female abstract comic art.
ReplyDeleteCowboyster--by all means, please show me what you are referring to. Links would be great. When I put the book together, I couldn't find any women cartoonists working in abstract comics. Others couldn't find them either. Since the blog came up, there have been a few--especially Nina Roos and Satu Kaikkonen--but, really, there wasn't anyone I could find for the book itself.
ReplyDeleteI will email you a list of links and what not. Although it may be debatable as to whether or not some of the woman artists I have in mind are "cartoonist working in abstact comics" but are creating abstract art that may be defined as "comics". But in the meantime, check out some of the artists/cartoonist featured in kutikuti or nazi knife. Nina and Satu's work is really amazing! I hadn't seen their work before following your blog, thank you. Keep up the great work!
ReplyDeleteThanks, please send me the links. Have you actually seen the book itself? I know Kutikuti and that entire scene, but I'm not sure anything from there would have really fit as real "abstract comics" in the anthology; most still has too much representation. Some of Tommi Musturi's pages, maybe (but then, he's not a woman either)--but I'm not convinced his abstract pages actually function as abstract comics...
ReplyDeleteI didn't know "Nazi Knife." But looking at previews online, it seems to be primarily graphics, not comics; so, again, there are some abstract pages, but not really abstract comics that I can find. Not to mention that they don't identify the pages by artists, so I can't tell which ones are women anyway.
Hope I get a copy for my birthday!
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