Hi, i'm a young french artist. it's been several months since i started to follow this blog, as i'm an abstraction fanatic - great job done here, and in the anthology too. i happen to paint abstract comics too ; i first thought that i was alone in this way of drawing comics (except for the Ibn al Rabin & Lewis Trondheim works) - with this blog, i discovered a sort of artistic family, and it feels good. To put it shortly, many of the works i sent to french editors were sent back to me, with a note saying something like 'please be serious, this isn't comics-strip, thank you' That's why i started to wonder if american editors were more open to this kind of creation, and if i had to send my projects in the usa rather than in france ... So if you know any editor to whom i could propose something, i would be forever grateful :) However, i hope that the abstract comics adventures are not over, the important thing is to keep it alive, so good luck with the blog and your anthology activities. Thanx, François Belsoeur
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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 it is a significant historical document that may jump-start an actual new genre.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.
Hi,
ReplyDeletei'm a young french artist. it's been several months since i started to follow this blog, as i'm an abstraction fanatic - great job done here, and in the anthology too.
i happen to paint abstract comics too ; i first thought that i was alone in this way of drawing comics (except for the Ibn al Rabin & Lewis Trondheim works) - with this blog, i discovered a sort of artistic family, and it feels good.
To put it shortly, many of the works i sent to french editors were sent back to me, with a note saying something like 'please be serious, this isn't comics-strip, thank you'
That's why i started to wonder if american editors were more open to this kind of creation, and if i had to send my projects in the usa rather than in france ...
So if you know any editor to whom i could propose something, i would be forever grateful :)
However, i hope that the abstract comics adventures are not over, the important thing is to keep it alive, so good luck with the blog and your anthology activities.
Thanx,
François Belsoeur
Hi Francois--do you have any links to your abstract comics you could post?
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hi François. did you consider sending your abstracts to literary reviews, such as Nioques, Doc(k)s, T.A.P.I.N. & so on?
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