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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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Hoytiden by Rui Tenreiro
I picked this book up at the Scandinavian section of MoCCA. It can be a little overwhelming browsing through tables of comics in languages I don’t even understand a single word of, but this book attracted me visually. According to the author page at his publisher, Rui Tenreiro is a Mozambique born artist who moved to Norway and now goes to school in Sweden. The publisher is Norwegian (also the publisher of Jason) and the book is in that language, though a folded up English translation was slipped into the book that has dialogue and sound effects translated by page/panel.
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Cold Heat: The Series 5-6 by Jones and Santoro
Jones, Ben and Frank Santoro. Cold Heat:: The Series Issues Five and Six. Picturebox, 2009. 48 color pages. $20 (edition of 100). Cold Heat is back! If you’ve been reading this blog at all in the past couple years you know my love for Frank Santoro’s work and for Cold Heat (it’s issues made my [...]
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Panel Madness Day Four: Rubber Blanket Issue 2 Page 38
Day Four of the Panel Madness Week blogaround arrives. The previous post is up at The Fortress of Fortitude where the Keeper writes about a panel from Challengers of the Unknown #2 by Dave Wood and Jack Kirby. Mazzucchelli, David. “Discovering America.” Rubber Blanket 2 (1992). p. 38. Certain works have had lasting impact on [...]
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Bluesy Face
I’ve been enjoying Jed McGowan’s periodically appearing Bluesy Face. The third chapter was published this week on his website. I’m not sure where the story is going, but I love McGowan’s style which uses sparse line work and blocky colors (bright blue and a grey screen-like tone or two). He also creates a number of [...]
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An Autumn Afternoon
This week I spent an autumn afternoon watching Yasujiro Ozu’s An Autumn Afternoon (Criterion, 2008). Then I spent an autumn evening watching it a second time with the excellent commentary by David Bordwell (whose blog I highly recommend). His is one of those rare commentaries by someone who has interesting and intellingent things to say [...]
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Calpurnio
I first heard about the Spanish cartoonist Calpurnio from a discussion by Thierry Groensteen in his La Bande Dessinée: mode d’emploi (more on that in the future). Calpurnio uses stick figures and minimalist backgrounds, a very clean and iconic style. Unfortunately, his work is in Spanish so I can only vaguely make out the text [...]
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Helen Lundeberg
Sonic Youth‘s most recent album, “Rather Ripped,” has a song called “Helen Lunderberg”. Over an almost tribal marching band drum the lyrics begin: Helen Lundeberg illusory landscape five decades of paint A couple of weeks ago (yes, it took awhile for me to post this) I finally looked up the name. Not surprisingly, Helen Lundeberg [...]
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3 Appreciations of Frank Santoro – 2
[See part 1] II. If Storeyville told a conventional narrative of search and discovery with a linear movement, clear characters, and distinct settings, then Chimera is decidedly unconventional, juxtaposing reality and dream, the everyday and the fantastic with a poetry that has the distinct feel of early 20th century Surrealism. At a basic level, reading [...]
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Panter image
This image by Gary Panter appeared somewhere online as, I think, a preview from the Picturebox produced hardcover set (I forget now). I just wanted to comment on the use of colors as layering device and the lack of black linework. The yellow fades to the background, while the blue-green woman shown has an almost [...]
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Thoreau at Walden by John Porcellino
Thoreau at Walden by John Porcellino. Hyperion, 2008. 102p., hardcover, 2 color, $16.99. ISBN: 9781423100386. I’m like a broken record when it comes to John Porcellino’s work: I love its beautiful minimalism and quiet, thoughtful narratives. A new long work by him is cause for celebration, and this volume does not disappoint. Thoreau at Walden [...]
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Marsh Composition and Color
From Tarzan #4 (Dell, 1948), art by Jesse Marsh. (Read the full issue.) This panel jumped out at me for its simple geometric composition. A few colored planes, one in front of the other, in a cascade from left to right off the page (this is the last panel on the page). The exception to [...]
