Comments on: Saul Steinberg

By: Austin

Austin — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:30:19 +0000

well, i finally made it through the whole book — I gotta formulate my thoughts enough to make a real post, but there were a bunch of things that really stood out to me, most particularly the “writer who draws” distinction Steinberg made, and his weird obsession with the “profile” view

more to come…

By: DerikB

DerikB — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:36:51 +0000

I’m going to have to get The Labyrinth from the library this week.

By: Andrei

Andrei — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 08:30:10 +0000

Hey Derik–

you’re totally right. As far as I can tell, that strip (together with the others on the same page) was the first abstract comic I ever saw, at some point in the late ’80’s, when I bought the catalogue for the Whitney Steinberg exhibition. I actually posted, a couple of years ago, that very strip as an example in a thread on abstract comics on the TCJ Boards. To my eyes, the entire page from “The Labyrinth” where it appears seems to be some kind of impressionistic representation of an actual newspaper comics page–as if, stepping back from the paper far enough, you no longer can distinguish characters, words or plots, just the formal, anarchic energy in each strip.

By: Austin

Austin — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:51:30 +0000

awesome…we’re going to see the show in new york next week