Meh. The hands are okay, but my attention is on the book. ;-)
Actually, this is sort of the way I enjoy the book. I dutifully "read" it cover to cover when I bought it, but it still sits next to my computer at home. I often pick it up and randomly open it to a page to contemplate. And in doing so, I swear I find pieces I don't remember being in there. That even happened during this videoed thumb-through.
That's me! (I even had "Hand Model" put on my Fanta business card. It's true!) And yes, I just put that up that recently -- I had fallen a little behind with my preview uploads.
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 it is a significant historical document that may jump-start an actual new genre.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.
I think they just put it up the other day (at least, I gathered as much from Twitter).
ReplyDeleteI want to know who the hand model is!
ReplyDeleteMeh. The hands are okay, but my attention is on the book. ;-)
ReplyDeleteActually, this is sort of the way I enjoy the book. I dutifully "read" it cover to cover when I bought it, but it still sits next to my computer at home. I often pick it up and randomly open it to a page to contemplate. And in doing so, I swear I find pieces I don't remember being in there. That even happened during this videoed thumb-through.
That's me! (I even had "Hand Model" put on my Fanta business card. It's true!) And yes, I just put that up that recently -- I had fallen a little behind with my preview uploads.
ReplyDeletemike, we saw the video and loved your hands. would you be interested in joining the hand modelling agency 'sad hand models'?
ReplyDeleteplease visit our site to 'get a feel' of 'what we do'
damn that link doesn't work. think anon meant sadhands.blogspot.com
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