looks really nice! (and did You get my email/what do you think about my question?). I am starting a series of abstract comics. If you guys here don't find them abstract, I'll shut up.
Thanks! I've actually now decided it's called "Fugue (for Bruce Conner)." The abstract imagery I animated derives from a (static) remix I did of a Bruce Conner drawing. The layout, however, relates to the De Kooning I illustrated in the intro to the Anthology. And the manipulation of the timing--well, actually that derives from Nancarrow, and maybe from Steve Reich too.
Great Zeus! this is really awesome and so is Bruce Conner.
I've been watching a ton of great abstract cinema and animation. I highly recommend Len Lye, Hy Hirsch, Pat O'Neill, early David Lynch 16mm animation, and James Whitney.
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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 it is a significant historical document that may jump-start an actual new genre.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.
looks really nice! (and did You get my email/what do you think about my question?). I am starting a series of abstract comics. If you guys here don't find them abstract, I'll shut up.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy this. Timing is everything.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I've actually now decided it's called "Fugue (for Bruce Conner)." The abstract imagery I animated derives from a (static) remix I did of a Bruce Conner drawing. The layout, however, relates to the De Kooning I illustrated in the intro to the Anthology. And the manipulation of the timing--well, actually that derives from Nancarrow, and maybe from Steve Reich too.
ReplyDeleteGreat Zeus! this is really awesome and so is Bruce Conner.
ReplyDeleteI've been watching a ton of great abstract cinema and animation. I highly recommend Len Lye, Hy Hirsch, Pat O'Neill, early David Lynch 16mm animation, and James Whitney.
Thanks! Yeah, I adore Bruce Conner--especially his drawings, actually...
ReplyDeleteDid you see this?
http://abstractcomics.blogspot.com/2009/09/brett-bergmann-noise-of-their-leaving.html