he did a zine thing in the late 80's early 90's called Flesh Horse (look at the 5th post from bottom) - that was done in that specific style, i wish i had some copies of that zine!
my funny but sad steelpolebathtub story: i saw them play live in the early 90's, it was an unusual venue outside the usual "grunge circuit" at this club in Buckhead (yuppietown), anyway, before i went to the show i went by the Book Nook & spent what little money i had on a nice spiralbound fullcolor David Sandlin artcomic... the show was great, they jammed down the house, but i wanted a t-shirt & didn't have enough money, so after their set they were setting to the side & i approached them & asked if they would trade a t-shirt for a David Sandlin book & they did the trade, sadly, as is often the case, a girlfriend later absconded with the t-shirt !!!
i've lost so many of my cool t-shirts to xgirlfriends!!!
& damn, those David Sandlin things are fairly rare, so i ended up losing both ways!!
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 it is a significant historical document that may jump-start an actual new genre.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.
Gary Panter did the cover art
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Wow, that's fuckin' fantastic!!! Do you have any idea who drew it?
ReplyDeleteEven before I read your comment I was going to say it reminds me of Gary's Zomoid!
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ReplyDeletei'm pretty sure it's by Dale Flattum
he did a zine thing in the late 80's
early 90's called Flesh Horse (look at the 5th post from bottom) - that was done in
that specific style, i wish i had
some copies of that zine!
here is some stuff of his at gigposters
my funny but sad steelpolebathtub story:
i saw them play live in the early 90's,
it was an unusual venue outside the usual
"grunge circuit" at this club in Buckhead
(yuppietown), anyway, before i went to the
show i went by the Book Nook & spent what
little money i had on a nice spiralbound
fullcolor David Sandlin artcomic...
the show was great, they jammed down the
house, but i wanted a t-shirt & didn't have
enough money, so after their set they were
setting to the side & i approached them
& asked if they would trade a t-shirt for
a David Sandlin book & they did the trade,
sadly, as is often the case, a girlfriend
later absconded with the t-shirt !!!
i've lost so many of my cool t-shirts to
xgirlfriends!!!
& damn, those David Sandlin things are
fairly rare, so i ended up losing both ways!!
i edit'd the post to ammend
ReplyDeleteDale Flattum's authorship,
i contacted him for permish
if this post was okay
& he said yes.
funnily, he also told me
that the David Sandlin book
i had traded was swiped by
one his xgirlfriends, ha!
it comes full circle.