Shorts for Monday

Grant Thomas has done a couple comics poems experiments that you can find over at his Graphic Poems site.

In particular, I wanted to point out his third color sonnet which is a really beautiful abstract watercolor comic. I don’t completely get the rhyming scheme (which clearly involves color), but it doesn’t matter because the liquid mixing of the colors in their blotchy shapes and the pencil-like (can’t tell if its really pencil) sketchy panel frames are so visually rich in themselves that I’m not so concerned about the specific ordering of the panels, pages, colors.

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Matt Madden has a blog.
Here’s hoping he keeps it up.

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Greil Marcus’ The Shape of Things to Come (2006) is a great read. Like in previous books (notably Lipstick Traces) Marcus draws on a great range of sources from novels to film to music, focusing on Philip Roth, David Lynch, and Dave Thomas (of punk group Pere Ubu). The two chapters on Lynch’s Lost Highways and Twin Peaks are worth the price alone. He draws on film noir, political speeches, Puritan sermons, and riot grrl music in the process. Marcus has a great ability to describe filmic scenes and music in the most evocative of language. Reading a Greil Marcus book always leads me to the bibliography, a gold mine of new discoveries and old rediscoveries.

Tags: blogs, Comics, Constraint, greilmarcus, poetry

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