A Kent Williams page from "Blood: A Tale"

This is the original art, pre-lettering. We often don't notice how much abstraction there is even in narrative comics--where it's made acceptable by an overlay of words:

book cover by Michael Cope

here's the cover of Michael's novel Spiral of Fire (Africasouth, 1987), painted by the author.

apparently, this is the only thing he's done in this particular style.

he's an author, poet, painter, karate instructor, jewellery maker & Father.

the painted graphic music scores at http://www.cope.co.za/FineArt/Brush/brush%20music%20colour.htm are also close to the realm of abstract comics.

Ditko's Abstract Comics

I saw this great post over at Blog Flume about the beautiful abstractions in Steve Ditko's comics. These panels are just begging to be remixed into a full abstract comic! (HT: Paul Hornschemeier)

Underwhirl

Continuing the preceding...



And... the vocal version:



Thanks, Mike!