All PostsContent Topic: characterless comics
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Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey
This weekend my wife and I took a trip to the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, PA (west of Philadelphia). Primarily known for its collection of Wyeth family work, the museum currently (until May 17) has an exhibit up entitled: “Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey.”
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Spuk (Thesen gegen den Fruhling) by Niklaus Ruegg
Rüegg, Niklaus. SPUK (Thesen gegen den Frühling). Zurich: Edition Fink, 2004. ISBN 9783906086743. Almost all comics are figurative (that is, representational). More than that, the greater cultural awareness of comics is through characters. A great swath of the field (comic strips, comic books, manga, bd) is covered by the neverending (or nearly neverending) narratives of [...]
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SPUK
Two scans courtesy of Andrei Molotiu from the book SPUK (Thesen gegen den Frühling) by Niklaus Rüegg (Edition Fink Zurich Switzerland). The book is made up of Cark Barks’ duck comics without the ducks, just backgrounds. Beautiful work, I wish I could read a copy, but it is expensive/out of print. Something like this really [...]
