Penn's Palette

Irving Penn's photo of his own paint-stained palette, cropped and rotated to suggest a comic... you know, like Garfield or Cathy.

new book by Paul Dwyer

Paul Dwyer, whose Codex Optica was mentioned at this blog a while ago, has a new book out, simply titled Comics Experiments. You can read the whole book in scribd or order a physical book. Comics Experiments is a mix of warped pictures (one description would be dub comics), & out-&-out abstract sequences. Overall, these comics give me a kind of trippy, altered feeling.

later note: I should add that some of these stories use high contrast photos which tend to have much more black than white, giving a mysterious atmosphere. Not as abstract as some of Rosaire's, but more abstract than photos taken in daylight.

Sliver

A comic using found slides. I thought since I mentioned in the previous post's comments I might post a couple of images from it.

Sliver page 9Sliver part 2 page 9
For those interested there is a 40 page book version of this comic which I recently made see here. I really like the indistinct quality of the content in the slides. A comic about memories and nostalgia.
Sliver page 1
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History of the Sun, by Piotr Szreniawski

34 page book, of photos plugged into comics frames.

Piotr often rotates the photos "wrong" way up. this make his sequences work very differently to how right way up photos work. for me, it takes longer to process each frame, & it's easier to treat the photos as raw colour & shape. most of the pages give me a sense of dynamic motion.