Two Trains, by Rosaire Appel

40 pages, black and white paperback

This isn't an abstract comic, or is it? The subject is the tension which occurs when words and images co-exist on the same page.
for more information: http://www.rosaireappel.com/two-trains.html

"Drawing" thread from TCJ message board, January 2003

I promised that when I got a chance I would post more of the threads I saved from the old Comics Journal Message Board. Here is the earliest one I saved. (For some reason, I didn't like keeping the hyperlinks, so I systematically deleted the dates and times of the posts. However, one survived, helping me date this to January, 2003.) The topic is "drawing," in general, and what one might qualify as the (potential) excess, in comics, of the drawing in relation to the story it is supposed to illustrate. For that reason, even though it does not address abstract comics directly, I think it could be of great interest to the readers of this blog.

Long-format comic (in progress) by Goedele Van Kerkhoven

Goedele is a professional musician living in Brussels. She also started the "Abstract Comics" entry on Wikipedia.

Matt Madden reviews my piece, "[Otherwise Untitled]," from "Nautilus."

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