Ah Seen

Yesterday a posted a new 36 page comic (in pdf form) called "Ah Seen." It's mostly abstract, though not completely, and is an experiment in appropriation and not drawing. You can download it for free here.

untitled [aka do like Blaise does]

drawing

First Quatrain

Here is the final tier of my newest comic.  I put the whole page up to give you the full context.  I think it works much better than the "gag strip" versions I post. 

Erase strip

Here's a piece I did last year that I don't think I ever posted here:



Blaise's post reminded me of it in some weird way.

scrap comic

(torn up drawings recombined and photographed)

Eyeballs 04-20 + crit ob

This is another more abstract (and never before seen) of my Eyeballs dailies:

...and here's an observation by comics critic Matt Seneca:

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Tier 3

Tier 2

I hesitated to post this comic bit by bit.  At first I was going to post yesterday's little section and then post the full final version. 

Then i thought they looked kind of like abstract comics gag-a-day strips.

Anybody wanna remix these with Peanuts dialog?

The Beginning of Something New

I am trying my hand at comics sonnets again.  My original comics sonnets were fourteen pages long with ten panels per page.  This was fun to play with, but made the comics seem more epic than the original sonnet that they mimicked.

For this round of comics sonnets, I am sticking with fourteen rows of panels instead of pages, which will make the poem shorter.  I also think it will be easier to see the visual rhyming sequence this way.

Here's the first tier of panels:

More to come. . .

Smudge

Page one and two above. See page three and four at Drawingsilence.com. Smudge got linked on The Comics Reporter blog which was real cool, thanks Tom!

Comics for Sale!

I've put together a mini comic of various short comics I've done over the years. A few have been up on Graphic Poems and a few have been posted here. I have a couple new ones in there too.

You can buy them over at my store for $3.00 plus shipping.

Henrik Rehr's "Reykjavik" reviewed by Matt Madden

Matt Madden and Jessica Abel's rundown of the "Notable Comics" list from "The Best American Comics 2010" continues, and yet another abstract comic--by yet another AC anthology and blog contributor--is discussed. (See here for Matt's review of one of my pieces, see here for Jessica's review of Derik Badman's piece from the anthology, and see here for Jessica's discussion of two pieces by Warren Craghead, including "Un Calligramme" from the anthology; they have also reviewed so far pieces by anthology contributors Jason Overby, John Hankiewicz, and Damien Jay, though not--or not fully--in their abstract mode). Click the pic:

The Black Forest 3

Infinite Canvas version. see serialised one here.
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Tandoori

Abstract 28 Series 2, a permanent marker comic. This one is a favourite of mine.
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