All PostsContent Topic: comics poetry
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Enso and Haiga
If it’s not already obvious from the comics I’ve posted in the past month, I’ve been looking at (and reading about) a lot of Asian ink/brush art lately. In particular a lot of this art has been zen or poetry related. (Japanese film director Yasujiro Ozu was also a big influence on a few of [...]
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Yes and Hypnotizing by Aidan Koch
Koch, Aidan. Yes. Self-published, 2009. 16p with silkscreen cover. –. Hypnotizing. Self-published, 2009. 8p. Back in September I reviewed a minicomic and a webcomic by Aidan Koch. I emailed her after that and got a few more recent minicomics. One is called “Hypnotizing” you can read it at Flickr, starting with page one (though note [...]
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Warmer and Little Flashes by Aidan Koch
Sometimes I read a comic and it reminds me that comics can be narrative without being clear, character driven, or plot-based. Comics narratives can be abstract, allusive, elusive, elliptical, yet still visual rich and… poetic. Warren Craghead’s work always brings this to mind, though I’ve yet to manage a post on his How To Be Everywhere which will do justice to the book. On some recommendation–or perhaps I was just ordering some other minicomics and wanted to make the postage worthwhile–I bought a copy of Aidan Koch’s Warmer a few months back. It got lost in the piles and shelves of my office until her name showed up again online, first at Arthur Magazine (where Jason Leivian of Floating World Comics in Portland does some comic editing) and then at TopShelf 2.0 (both actually showing the same short comic). So I reread and reread.
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Comics by Allan Haverholm
When I met Allan Haverholm at this year’s MoCCA festival, I knew he had some new comics for the show from following him on Twitter, but I hadn’t seen much of his work. It’s always a bonus to meet someone in comics and to actually like their work. I bought the full suite of Allan’s comics and I was not disappointed. The works I got from Allan all share conceptual connection to music, providing an intriguing way to think about comics.
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Hart on Drama vs Poetry
A continuum all these works vacillate on is Drama vs Poetry. Drama is the manipulation of characters and events in opposition with each other. In its most extreme, it is superficial and distancing: tired action movies about good guys and bad guys. In it’s best examples, characters are deeply drawn and communicate, questioning and exploring [...]
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Craghead is a poet
Top Shelf has new a Warren Craghead work up, “A Flame Expelled.” If anyone can be called a poet of comics, it is Craghead. I really need to get my ass in gear and write something about his How to Be Everywhere. He uses rhythm, repetition, and lay-out with both words and images in a [...]
