There was an official CUNY photographer there who took TONS of photos. I'll ask to see if they can send us some, or if they've already been posted somewhere.
I am frankly confused by pszren's comment; how was Draw's simple question a "great post" or something to make a poem out of? It sounds suspiciously like spam, but pszren has posted what seemed like legitimate comments before. So, as the administrator, I'll let it go through, but I hope he will come back and explain what he meant.
Ok, supposedly in a few days we'll all get in the mail two copies of the exhibition booklet and a CD with pics from the opening and installation pics. It'll probably take longer to get to the antipodes, though...
Can't seem to open that link. Is the "great post, will make a poem out of it" comment somehow connected to it? Because otherwise I just don't get it.
thanks Andrei, you know my way into abstract comics was strictly connected with protesting against censorship: http://pustokadrowosc.webpark.pl/paski.html
and about the poem, it's quite simple:
PHOTOS?
Any chance that some photos of the exhibition and/or the opening reception can be posted?
I would love to see some since I couldn't make it.
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/8642/si1900.jpg on the right side it goes more abstract.
one could even use it for a shelter and become a philosopher :) http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/5146/si1901.jpg
psz--it was not about censorship, it was about the possibility of it being spam! Spam typically tells you "great post!," and I have to reject at least a few of those every week. That's why I was confused, because--no offense to David--it was just a straightforward question, and I couldn't see what made it "great" compared to most other straightforward question or informational posts on this or any other blog.
(is there any way of becoming a contributor of this blog? since I found it, I had many new ideas about creating abstract comics, I also found my older ones. I mean if it's not possible, it's still ok.)
I knew blogs, where people create comics together, but not abstract comics! (I didn't know other people take it seriously). I would like to follow your example, and start a similar project.
besides from comics, I am also interested in poetry, and in putting the two arts together. I wrote and published poems about comics, comics about a poet, and I create poemics - which is an art between poetry and comics.
if any Author creating abstract comics would be interested in taking part in the poemics project, it would be great! I mean, if someone experiments with one thing, why not with another?
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.
great post, I will make a poem out of it. (did you receive my email?)
ReplyDeleteThere was an official CUNY photographer there who took TONS of photos. I'll ask to see if they can send us some, or if they've already been posted somewhere.
ReplyDeleteI am frankly confused by pszren's comment; how was Draw's simple question a "great post" or something to make a poem out of? It sounds suspiciously like spam, but pszren has posted what seemed like legitimate comments before. So, as the administrator, I'll let it go through, but I hope he will come back and explain what he meant.
ReplyDeleteAndrei: yay! that would be awesome. He did contact me after my interview,sent me a link to this:
ReplyDeletehttp://dimkus.comicgenesis.com/app.pdf
Pszren: yes I did get your email and I am interested.
Ok, supposedly in a few days we'll all get in the mail two copies of the exhibition booklet and a CD with pics from the opening and installation pics. It'll probably take longer to get to the antipodes, though...
ReplyDeleteCan't seem to open that link. Is the "great post, will make a poem out of it" comment somehow connected to it? Because otherwise I just don't get it.
thanks Andrei, you know my way into abstract comics was strictly connected with protesting against censorship: http://pustokadrowosc.webpark.pl/paski.html
ReplyDeleteand about the poem, it's quite simple:
PHOTOS?
Any chance
that some photos
of the exhibition
and/or
the opening reception
can be posted?
I would love to see some
since I couldn't make it.
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/8642/si1900.jpg
on the right side it goes more abstract.
one could even use it for a shelter and become a philosopher :)
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/5146/si1901.jpg
psz--it was not about censorship, it was about the possibility of it being spam! Spam typically tells you "great post!," and I have to reject at least a few of those every week. That's why I was confused, because--no offense to David--it was just a straightforward question, and I couldn't see what made it "great" compared to most other straightforward question or informational posts on this or any other blog.
ReplyDeleteok, but did you like my use of David's question?
ReplyDelete(is there any way of becoming a contributor of this blog? since I found it, I had many new ideas about creating abstract comics, I also found my older ones. I mean if it's not possible, it's still ok.)
I knew blogs, where people create comics together, but not abstract comics! (I didn't know other people take it seriously). I would like to follow your example, and start a similar project.
besides from comics, I am also interested in poetry, and in putting the two arts together. I wrote and published poems about comics, comics about a poet, and I create poemics - which is an art between poetry and comics.
if any Author creating abstract comics would be interested in taking part in the poemics project, it would be great! I mean, if someone experiments with one thing, why not with another?
you wanted spam, you got spam! :)