Thanks! I can see myself redrawing every panel like I did the first one to bring it closer to the composition in Mike's original version, and to make it more sequential, but I've already wasted WAY too many hours hatching and re-hatching this.
BTW, Mark--I looked up your blog, tried to leave a comment there but it wouldn't let me sign on. Anyway, it was funny to see a jpeg of a page from Niklaus Ruegg's SPUK, which, through a very roundabout way, came from my own photo of my copy of the book.
This one is great too and I'd love to see one that looks closer to the composition in my original version but yes, you probably should stop tinkering with it and move on to the next one or you'll never finish four versions (and a fifth with text plus two close up shots) of each and every abstract comic that has been posted on this blog.
yeah, fersure, cool to see all the different variations!
Andrei, you can never waste too much time w/ these things, you have an amazing uncanny ability for the translative aspect of resetting the zeroes on anything, i think this multi-interpretive ability is a hallmark of yr particular genius, for real, if you were on a desert island w/ just one comic, it would eventually morph via sand sticks & stones into something as multifaceted as any gleaming diamond, you got the goods in that dept. & that's sayin' alot on toppa yr personal work, i celebrate that you are a tinker-junkie!!! = )
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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 it is a significant historical document that may jump-start an actual new genre.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.
Awesome! Its been great watching this evolve ...
ReplyDeleteThanks! I can see myself redrawing every panel like I did the first one to bring it closer to the composition in Mike's original version, and to make it more sequential, but I've already wasted WAY too many hours hatching and re-hatching this.
ReplyDeleteBTW, Mark--I looked up your blog, tried to leave a comment there but it wouldn't let me sign on. Anyway, it was funny to see a jpeg of a page from Niklaus Ruegg's SPUK, which, through a very roundabout way, came from my own photo of my copy of the book.
This one is great too and I'd love to see one that looks closer to the composition in my original version but yes, you probably should stop tinkering with it and move on to the next one or you'll never finish four versions (and a fifth with text plus two close up shots) of each and every abstract comic that has been posted on this blog.
ReplyDeleteThe light green additions are really great.
ReplyDeleteyeah, fersure, cool to see all the different
ReplyDeletevariations!
Andrei, you can never waste too much time
w/ these things, you have an amazing uncanny
ability for the translative aspect of resetting
the zeroes on anything, i think this multi-interpretive ability is a hallmark of yr particular genius, for real, if you were
on a desert island w/ just one comic, it
would eventually morph via sand sticks & stones
into something as multifaceted as any
gleaming diamond, you got the goods in that
dept. & that's sayin' alot on toppa yr
personal work, i celebrate that you are a
tinker-junkie!!!
= )