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)

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Rosaire Appel's http://rosaireappel.blogspot.com/
includes the abstract strip POOT
& the absurd abstract comics video arrived & left

Growing Diaspora Round-Up: Kreuter, Stafford, DeMuro, Harker

New discoveries (well, new to me, anyway) in the realm of abstract comics! We have a veritable smorgasbord today:

Back in October of last year, Chris Kreuter published Stray Thoughts, "a 12 page comic book that utilizes the comic book format as a vehicle for abstract art." Here are a couple of sample pages:






Tyler Stafford writes (back on May 7): "I've kind of been doing a lot of abstract comics lately." Here's one example of two posted on his site--I'd love to see more:




Paul DeMuro has actually been painting abstractions on old comics, apparently maintaining their original gutters:






And, last but not least, Ian Harker's latest comic ends with an entirely abstract page:



(And, no, I have no idea who Knut Mjølnirsen is either.)

May I just say that things are getting really exciting out there?

Nina Roos draws beautiful drawings

And some of them clearly veer into abstract comics territory--this one for instance:



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Nick Mullins tries his hand at ab cmx

With beautiful results:

A second Finn chimes in!

As pointed out by Troy in his comments to the post about the first Finn:

http://www.lauloaja.net/arkisto/abstractcomics_2009.html

The Finns chime in!

Or one of them, at least, Teemu Manninen, with five different pieces.

Since, as far as I can tell, this is the author's first attempt at abstract comics (his earlier work on that site consists of concrete/visual poems)--may I be as bold as to detect reverberations from this blog? Or maybe it's an amazing coincidence.

(BTW, I'm not sure if the first piece there, "A Portrait of Reed Richards," is quite comics, but it's really really funny.)

The growing ab. com. diaspora

One of our readers has been inspired by this blog to try his hand at his first abstract comic. Check it out!