and of course the pieces in the book by Crumb, Trondheim, Ibn al Rabin, Janusz Jaworski, Geoff Grogan and Noah Berlatsky that make interesting use of dialogue balloons.
I thought a lot about Cloudpeace, I got inspired by it, and now I am trying to draw clouds with blue letters such as c, s, and o.
interesting names! (I'll use google in some cases, and some I have seen thanks to this page. I only knew Crumb, although other names sound artistic too).
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 it is a significant historical document that may jump-start an actual new genre.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.
fajna sprawa, po prostu rządzicie!
ReplyDeletedziękuję bardzo!
ReplyDeletewow, I was checking out if you censor things in other languages than English :)
ReplyDeleteby the way, the cloud comics made me think about Alvaro de Sa and his poetry http://tiny.pl/hqmb7
I feel your other comic Overgrass is better.
ReplyDeletehttp://abstractcomics.blogspot.com/2009/08/overgrass.html
So Draw, are you sayin' that the grass gets you higher than the clouds?:)
ReplyDeletePszren, thanks for the link to Alvaro de Sa's cloud-dialogue-balloon comics.
Here's one I posted a while back that you might be interested in:
http://abstractcomics.blogspot.com/2009/05/colorsation.html
and of course the pieces in the book by Crumb, Trondheim, Ibn al Rabin, Janusz Jaworski, Geoff Grogan and Noah Berlatsky that make interesting use of dialogue balloons.
I thought a lot about Cloudpeace, I got inspired by it, and now I am trying to draw clouds with blue letters such as c, s, and o.
ReplyDeleteinteresting names! (I'll use google in some cases, and some I have seen thanks to this page. I only knew Crumb, although other names sound artistic too).
Pszren, that's great to know you were inspired by this! I'll look forward to seeing your cloud-letter drawings!
ReplyDeleteok, so here is my smog cloud (as it is not blue):
ReplyDeletehttp://img29.imageshack.us/img29/1678/cloudk.jpg
the works from your webpage are great!
I like it a lot! It would be great to see a series of 3 or 4-panel strips like this.
ReplyDeleteThanks for looking at my webpage (I have a lot more I should add there, including all my black and white abstract comics.)