Yes, I meant "with ink on paper or tablet?" (I should try one of those things although I'll probably always prefer ink, paint, charcoal, pencil, etc. on paper, canvas, etc.)
I like the instrumental version better but the vocals are really good (and funny) if you used it as a demo piece.
In fact, I've been thinking about that since hearing you explain a part of your anthology intro at MoCCA - it might be cool to see some lecture-type videos on making and especially reading abstract comics.
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 it is a significant historical document that may jump-start an actual new genre.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.
Thank YOU!
ReplyDeleteI'm especially happy to see that it got you to draw a comic like this by hand (or tablet?)
Either way, it looks really cool!
Hey Mike--yeah, it's all tablet--but that's still drawn by hand!!
ReplyDeleteSo do you prefer the vocal version or just the instrumental?
Yes, I meant "with ink on paper or tablet?" (I should try one of those things although I'll probably always prefer ink, paint, charcoal, pencil, etc. on paper, canvas, etc.)
ReplyDeleteI like the instrumental version better but the vocals are really good (and funny) if you used it as a demo piece.
In fact, I've been thinking about that since hearing you explain a part of your anthology intro at MoCCA - it might be cool to see some lecture-type videos on making and especially reading abstract comics.
the vocal version
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perfecto!
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