MadInkBeard | Derik A Badman

This abstract comic is in L’Association’s “patte de mouche” series of small comics. Like a professionally published minicomic, the book is about the size of a quartered piece of paper, printed in black on off-white paper with a thicker, rougher cover printed in two shades of purple. This series, at least the ones I’ve seen, tend to be short, experimental comics.

In this case, Swiss artist Baladi has drawn a brief abstract comic about a “small line” (that’s the title). The comic amounts to the voyage of a short line through a series of encounters with other lines of various size, shape, and density.

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 [...]