Baseball month isn’t over yet, but due to other obligations, my post on H2 is delayed a bit. In the meantime here’s something I found recently. This is piece by Raymond Pettibon from Raymond Pettibon: Plots Laid Thick (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona : Distributed by Actar, 2002). This one’s for Andrei.
Tags: abstraction, abstract_comics
Awhile back, Tom Spurgeon linked to Trains Are Mint #4 by Oliver East. About 100 pages of ink and watercolor wash accompanying text about a narrator camping around Norway. The whole thing’s online so go read it. Despite the lack of much in the way of story, the narrative voice is enough to keep the [...]
Also tagged minicomics, styleI have a hot and cold relationship with the work of Anders Nilsen. His Big Questions series is fascinating and well-constructed (though I’m waiting for the collection since I can’t catch up with the out of print early issues), yet I found Monologues for the Coming Plague to be an utter disappointment which felt as [...]
Also tagged pictureless-comics, surrealismSaul Steinberg: Illuminations by Joel Smith. Yale UP, 2006.
[All Steinberg images © The Saul Steinberg Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.]
I saw this book in the new books shelf at a bookstore and recalled how I’ve never really looked at Steinberg’s work, despite the praise I’ve heard. So, I grabbed the library’s copy and was immediately [...]
Ninja by Brian Chippendale. Picturebox, 2006. 11″ x 17″. 144p.
My selection of best comics for the year should be up tomorrow, and a last minute addition to the list is Brian Chippendale’s massive Ninja, an impressive volume from production to content. I read it twice in a row, and I’m sure I’ll be going back [...]