tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-899946063697780510.post501197576007989369..comments2024-03-09T04:06:47.712-05:00Comments on Abstract Comics: The Blog: Might as well be abstract, part 3Andrei Molotiuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17400106944822618816noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-899946063697780510.post-11470846841292729962013-01-30T18:23:32.163-05:002013-01-30T18:23:32.163-05:00Alexey, I know what you mean--the pleasure is perh...Alexey, I know what you mean--the pleasure is perhaps more obvious with the Kirbys--but when I see what is supposed to be such a much simpler kind of comic, with no ambitions (or claims of artistic ambition normally made on its behalf by critics) function so formally, I just find it even more thrilling!Andrei Molotiuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17400106944822618816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-899946063697780510.post-76828803130799833002013-01-30T17:53:55.839-05:002013-01-30T17:53:55.839-05:00Lutz--you're right, though I don't think i...Lutz--you're right, though I don't think it's intentionally meant to shield itself from the ghost. That kind of figure, drifting off the page and turned away from the action, was a favorite of Dan DeCarlo's--here's an example: <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WEzx5-vobi8/T2M7UkvAyiI/AAAAAAAAVjU/-rT-c1Sgj34/s640/shes%2Bjosie%2B02.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WEzx5-vobi8/T2M7UkvAyiI/AAAAAAAAVjU/-rT-c1Sgj34/s640/shes%2Bjosie%2B02.jpg</a><br />I guess it was used, basically, to extend the physical space, and also as a kind of repoussoir for the action, maybe?Andrei Molotiuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17400106944822618816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-899946063697780510.post-53949094467838230542013-01-30T16:56:53.344-05:002013-01-30T16:56:53.344-05:00I agree with the analysis of the elements, and the...I agree with the analysis of the elements, and there is an abstract comics layer over the underlying sequence. That said, I feel like the subject matter gets in the way for me. When thinking abstract art, there's an aesthetic experience from the design and the visual composition that is separate from representation. Here, the rain drops are visual shorthand. And the cartoony humor prevents the type of majesty that could be achieved by the interplay of line and direction. In the Kirby designs you had linked, the elements play together better. The abstraction represents space, movement, and the unknowable. It is imagination unbound, and is more powerful than the character art, which is fairly passive between the scenes. The characters move or twist through the larger abstraction, being secondary to it, and if anything, emphasizing its alien quality.<br /><br />So in short, I agree that these elements are also here, but prefer the Kirby approach.Alexeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01272242162649768131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-899946063697780510.post-65291947204756436932013-01-30T04:11:27.120-05:002013-01-30T04:11:27.120-05:00Thanks, this is good! The left figure in panel 3 i...Thanks, this is good! The left figure in panel 3 is interesting. Ignoring the rain storm which everybody else has to fight, he seems to use the umbrella as a shielding tool to keep himself in complete oblivion of the ghost rather than to prevent himself from getting wet. Lutz Eitelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18265424358386584255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-899946063697780510.post-10502837309022327782013-01-29T20:09:16.645-05:002013-01-29T20:09:16.645-05:00Cute.Cute.Andrei Molotiuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17400106944822618816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-899946063697780510.post-40450509995497940382013-01-29T20:04:51.094-05:002013-01-29T20:04:51.094-05:00First!First!Yakov Hadashnoreply@blogger.com