Comments on: Spuk (Thesen gegen den Fruhling) by Niklaus Ruegg

By: Anders And uden Anders And « Over Floden Blog

Anders And uden Anders And « Over Floden Blog — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:07:26 +0000

[...] Johans post om Garfield uden Garfield nedenunder fik mig til at tænke på tyske Niklaus Rüeggs tilsvarende behandling af Carl Barks’ Anders And-historier. Forskellen er dog stor, for Rüegg har fjernet alle figurer, så der kun efterlades tomme, men udtryksfulde interiører, som noget overraskende oser af den figurative amerikanske billedkunsttradition, der tæller Edward Hopper og Eric Fischl blandt hovedeksponenterne (bl.a. karakteriseret ved en elegisk eller noget misantropisk undertone – ingen sjov som i Garfield uden Garfield…) Mere her. [...]

By: DerikB

DerikB — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:22:53 +0000

Thank you, (other) Joseph. I’ll have to look into Thomson. I’d love to see that characterless Road Runner cartoon.

By: DerikB

DerikB — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:20:26 +0000

Joseph: The link in the first paragraph goes to the publisher’s site. You might also be able to order it here:
http://www.artmetropole.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=shop.FA_dsp_browse_details&InventoryUnitsID=592b809a-bbe2-4d04-9a71-41539d7c1953&CategoryID=&sale=&new=1

By: Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » Aug. 26, 2008: Virgin deflowered

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:36:40 +0000

[...] Derik Badman on Niklaus Rüegg’s experimental book SPUK (Thesen gegen den Frühling), which [...]

By: Joseph Cross

Joseph Cross — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:32:53 +0000

This looks fantastic.
Do you happen to have a link where it is available?

By: Joseph

Joseph — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:40:53 +0000

Los Angeles artist Mungo Thomson has been doing something similar:

http://www.artonpaper.com/bi/v12n06/review_mungothomson.php
http://triphop-universe.blogspot.com/2008/04/mungo-thomson-einstein-1-margo-leavin.html

By: blaise

blaise — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:52:49 +0000

gosh those are gorgeous