Well, maybe I should not have posted it here because it's really not meant as a comic at all--there is no sequence between the panels. It's more like an animated painting. The connection with comics, though, is that the first stage from which I started--frame one in the animation--is the color scheme for my 24 x 24 prints (except that I changed two of them that did not quite work with the flickering).
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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 it is a significant historical document that may jump-start an actual new genre.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.
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ReplyDeleteI like the idea of color only comics but the animation keeps throwing me off. I can't find the connections because they keep changing!
ReplyDeleteWell, maybe I should not have posted it here because it's really not meant as a comic at all--there is no sequence between the panels. It's more like an animated painting. The connection with comics, though, is that the first stage from which I started--frame one in the animation--is the color scheme for my 24 x 24 prints (except that I changed two of them that did not quite work with the flickering).
ReplyDeleteI think you should call it "I AM A COMIC READ ME HA HA YOU CAN'T!"
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'll make one of these flickering things that says exactly that... except that you'll never know it because YOU CAN'T READ IT!!
ReplyDeleteI still think an all color one would be great.
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