two pages of an unwritten book

by Rosaire Appel

Teaching with Abstract Comics

Good morning, students. 

Here are a couple examples I've found (thanks to Google Alerts) of Abstract Comics being used in classrooms:

#1: This was posted by Jonita Griffith, an art teacher in Astoria, New York, who had her class make abstract comics:

(Originally posted on: http://jonitagriffith.net/4.html)
#2: Some pieces from the book, along with questions about those pieces, are being used for an Art Appreciation class taught by Ruth Meredith at Lewis University, Chicago: Link to the pdf: http://artappreciationkafb.wikispaces.com/file/view/Abstract+Comics+Examples.pdf
P.S. If you are a teacher who is working with abstract comics in your class, please feel free to contact me at: contact(at)getsivizion(dot)com and let me know if you want your example posted here.

Sails again

But on a light box. See the original comic here. I've actually posted the original here as well a while back.
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Anger

ANGER ANGER anger ANGER ANGER ANGER ANGER ANGER ANGER anger ANGER anger ANGER ANGER ANGER anger anger ANGER anger
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A sequence

Edit: I now posted the original art to this here: http://blotcomics.blogspot.com/2011/05/sequence.html

shapes

shapes, a photo by Jason Overby on Flickr.

blue print gold

 digital prints. Rosaire Appel. 2011.

Finally.

My book is finished!

'Narrative in abstract drawing'

Here you can see a preview:

http://www.blurb.com/books/2162715

And you can order the 100 pages book.

"Beautiful Designs" by Sam Spina

Sam Spina does the webcomic Spinadoodles. This was yesterday's installment:



Sam's comment: "Based on actual tissues."

Thanks to Matt Graupman for pointing this out to me!

Recent sketchbook pages

I've posted a good number of recent sketchbook pages over on Blotcomics. Click the pic:

Seneca on a Moebius strip

Over at CBR, friend-of-the-blog Matt Seneca writes about a particularly abstract page by Moebius:



Also check out this comic with nearly abstract art (+ words) by Matt himself: On Neptune

Play-Doh rings

From here.

Gary Panter, cubist and (nearly) abstract

"Cubist Jimbo," 1980:



"Abstract Jimbo" and "Abstract Smoggo," 1982:



From Gary's current show at Galerie Martel, Paris.

Food

Abstract 28 Series 2, a permanent marker comic. Posted this this week on my website. A comic where I used a magazine page with multiple images on it.
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