Gavin the Grasshopper enjoys abstract comics

I was reading "Monkey Business" by Wallace Edwards to my son tonight, when I noticed something interesting on this page:



Look at one of the comics on the bottom left. Here is a detail, turned 90 degrees for your viewing enjoyment:



This is clearly a grasshopper with good taste--after all, right next to that abstract comic is an issue of "Waw," no doubt edited by Ant Spiegelman.

strand

this is a comic from lumakick #1. i think i drew it in the summer of 2002, which is a little while ago. i titled it strand at the time but would probably call it something else now

Please welcome new blog contributor Nina Roos!

I have mentioned and praised Nina's work in several previous posts. Nina has been introducing sequentiality into her abstract work for a while now (the earliest example I can find on her site is from October 2008) and, if I dare say so, discovering our blog seems to have brought new impetus to this trend in her work, which has yielded beautiful results in the last few months. Now Nina, who lives in Holland, tells me she is working toward gathering her sequential pieces into a comic-book, which I, for one, can hardly wait to see. If I had know of her work earlier, she would definitely have been included in the anthology. Nina's work will be featured, along with that of anthology contributors, in the exhibition "Silent Pictures" at the James Gallery, CUNY.

Saul Bass: The Man with the Golden Arm

Designer Saul Bass's wonderful abstract Film Titles for the movie The Man with the Golden Arm. The film was based on the book by Nelson Algren, still one of the greatest, yet most underappreciated American authors. Abstract Comics avant la lettre?

Abstract 8 series 2 remix

Abstract 8 remix. A friend of mine was really interested to see how the series 2 abstracts would look like with the panels rearranged in a more 'traditional' comics form.

Original below

Abstract 8
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Saul Bass: The Man with the Golden Arm Redux

Following up on Mark's suggestion in the earlier post, here is a "transcription" of Bass's titles into comics form, based on screen caps.



I cheated a bit with panels 13 and 14, because there are only 13 "stable" states in the title sequence, and 13 panels do not fit nicely into a grid. So I assigned the stable states to panels 1-12 and 15, and for 13 and 14 I used "in-betweens. " Still, I think it works nicely. A longer strip could be done using many more of the in-betweens.

Edit: now that I look at it, it kind of reminds me of the I-Ching. Just look at that eighth (and central, though not consciously intended as such) panel.

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New review at The Walrus, "Canada's Best Magazine."

The review begins: "Imagine a book publisher had released a retrospective on “The Graphic Novel” in 1976, or that a cinema hosted a look back at France’s nouvelle vague in 1957, or that a gallery exhibit somewhere spotlighted American Abstract Expressionism in, say, 1946. The experience would have been not unlike reading Abstract Comics: The Anthology today." I'm not sure the reviewer means this as 100% a compliment (actually, it's clear he doesn't--not 100%, that is), but I certainly choose to take it as one... Are you kidding? I would have loved to do a survey of Abstract Expressionism in 1946!

NINE DOORWAYS, contemporary abstract oil painting by Joshua Tree artist TINA BLUEFIELD

NINE DOORWAYS         oil on canvas            12" x 12" x 1.5"

$400. includes prompt free shipping in the U.S.

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I also blog, almost daily, at  Open to the Wind,  about living and painting in the always amazing Mojave Desert.

White Tulips by Tricia May

White Tulips
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Idaho Artist Tricia May.
20x20 Oil Painting on Gallery Wrapped Canvas.

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"Sky Play" by Janice Wright

Acrylic on Rough Watercolour Paper

8" x 10"

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Price: $85.00 + 15.00 for shipping in the US.

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Misty Morning Equine Horse Oil Painting by Contemporary Texas Equine Artist Laurie Pace

Misty Morning

30 x 30 Oil on Canvas

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Mark Webster - Vineyard #16 Acrylic Painting by Northern California Artist

Mark Webster - Vineyard #16 - 8x10" Acrylic on stretched canvas.This is part of a series for the Marco Fuoco Gallery 30 works in 30 days.The palette used is only 4 colors.

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Carmel St. 2 - Abstract by Lito San Juan

Carmel St. 2

Acrylic on Canvas (18x24)

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On my easel.....by Kay Wyne

I was able to get a FULL day of colorful painting in yesterday. It was great. I worked on several pieces, and started this palette knife painting. It is very wet and I polished of several tubes of paint since I was applying it very thick, giving it texture. I even used some of Carol and Sharon's left-over paint from their palette. I had a request from daughter Lindsay for a colorful abstract. Lindsay and Wes will probably hang this above the sofa in their cute little apartment in Lakewood after they get married. She liked the contemporary painting, "Color My Trees" which is hanging at Dutch Art Gallery now. Of course no two paintings are the same, but I started using the same concept on this painting as I did with "Color My Trees". I can't wait to work on this one today. All of these colors are bright, intense and happy. I hope that you have a colorful and artful day. Thanks for viewing this blog.

"Forest of Whimsy VII" Original Contemporay Abstract Aspen Tree Landscape Painting by Kimberly Conrad 11x14

Original 11x14 painting on 140 lb watercolor paper. This painting will fit a standard 11x14 frame, or may be matted and framed to a larger size. To purchase, contact Kimberly at kkconrad2@aol.com
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Mark Webster - Vineyard #15 Acrylic Painting - Original Acrylic Painting by Northern California Artist

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'Song of September' Silver Creek Oregon Acrylic Landscape Painting by Melody Cleary, Oregon Artist

Song of September © Melody Cleary 2010

$250

12" x 16" on gallery canvas, sides painted a deep cherry red.

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MELODY CLEARY

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