Edouard Correia, "The Curious Case of Mark Black"

Edouard's website. 

penjing arrangement

This is an arrangement of miniature 盆景 penjing on furniture, scanned from a booklet whose English title is China - a Land of Beauty Shanghai, published in 1978.

I can read this as an abstract comic (a pretty ambient one) or a visual poem.

Carlos Matuck of Brazil has done some desenhos (drawings) of Chinese scholars' stones, one in particular looking like comics: 5th one (2nd row, 2nd drawing) here.

Resyk Page 2

Here's the second page, finished last night.

This page, combined with page 1 and presented as a double-page spread, can be found here, at the Intercorstal blog.

Might as well be abstract, part 3

[NOTE: this is still a work in progress. See notice at the end]

Almost a year ago, I made two posts here on Ditko and Jack Burnley, respectively, where I showed some of their pages that, as the titles of the posts suggested, "might as well be abstract."  To some extent, this is what I also did in my article on Ditko and abstract comics (in Smith and Duncan's Critical Approaches to Comics), where I discussed two other pages from Spider-Man that I'm sure readers of this blog are sick and tired of seeing.  I've been meaning for a while to continue this series of posts on comics that, while representational, strike me as having some of the formal qualities that we see in abstract comics.