Penn's Palette

Irving Penn's photo of his own paint-stained palette, cropped and rotated to suggest a comic... you know, like Garfield or Cathy.

Wikipedia entry--update

We now have a bare-bones Wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_comics

Anybody care to add to or edit it?

Thanks to Goedele Van Kerkhoven for getting this ball rolling.

Wikipedia entry for "Abstract Comics"?

I received an email from a reader asking why there isn't a Wikipedia entry for the subject of this blog. She offered to do it herself, but wondered whether there might be anyone else working on such a project at this time. Is there anyone? Or else, would anyone here like to help her? I could put you in contact with her. As practitioner, editor of the book, promoter of the concept, etc., I feel I shouldn't write the entry myself, but I would be happy to provide any information necessary.

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Comic Abstraction redux

In case you haven't seen it, here is a post with good images from our evil twin, the "Comic Abstraction" show at MoMA in 2007, featuring pics of the only actual abstract comic in it, Rivane Neuenschwander's "Ze Carioca, no. 4" (which is based on an old Uncle Scrooge comic):



(And thanks to Brendan Monroe for reminding me of Neuenschwander, which is how I ended up finding that post.)

Brendan Monroe, "Between Here and There"

Click the image for the entire minicomic combining text and abstraction.

"Shikansen" by Tim Lisko

"Shikansen," a series of images taken from Japan's Shinkansen high-speed train, is on show this month at the Harrison Center in Indianapolis. See the entire series here.

Abstract comic (with words) by Garth Simmons

In the tradition of El Lissitsky. Click through for the entire piece.

And here is a more text-heavy one:

Three pieces by James Romberger

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