I'm intrigued that you were able to arrange the charred fragments so precisely. It's as if you've put the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle in their correct places.
There's plenty of visual rhyming, repetition of elements, going on.
& btw, apparently Tolkien made a manuscript then burnt it, to work out how much of the Dwarves' book in the mines of Moria would be legible.
I feel the first page is more successful... panels 3 and 4 on page two bother me, the imagery is a bit too clear.
I should also say (somewhat guiltily) that I think most of my work in this style is more "design" than comics -- it's definitely meant to be looked at all at once rather than panel-to-panel.
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 it is a significant historical document that may jump-start an actual new genre.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'm intrigued that you were able to arrange the charred fragments so precisely. It's as if you've put the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle in their correct places.
ReplyDeleteThere's plenty of visual rhyming, repetition of elements, going on.
& btw, apparently Tolkien made a manuscript then burnt it, to work out how much of the Dwarves' book in the mines of Moria would be legible.
This is very well done.
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ReplyDeleteI feel the first page is more successful... panels 3 and 4 on page two bother me, the imagery is a bit too clear.
I should also say (somewhat guiltily) that I think most of my work in this style is more "design" than comics -- it's definitely meant to be looked at all at once rather than panel-to-panel.
Excellent! I would say most people would have a hard time putting something together such as this. It does not seem easy by any means. Great work!
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