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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Four Colours 5

This one has really grown on me. Inspired by my Abstract Series 3 comics. I like the effect of the black gutter/panels laid over the other colours.
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Four Colours 2

Second four colour ball point pen comic, four pages.

Page 1

Page 2

See Page 3 and Page 4 at Drawingsilence.com, also see the test/experiment here.

Reeds 2

Two mirrored comics Reeds 1 and Reeds 2.
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Four Colours 1

First in a series. I used a four colour ball point pen, I love the immediacy and lightness of it.
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Sliver

A comic using found slides. I thought since I mentioned in the previous post's comments I might post a couple of images from it.

Sliver page 9Sliver part 2 page 9
For those interested there is a 40 page book version of this comic which I recently made see here. I really like the indistinct quality of the content in the slides. A comic about memories and nostalgia.
Sliver page 1
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'Found' Abstract Comic

found here, the tumbltr site didn't provide any information about where the images are from, who made them.
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Ghostly

Abstract 20 series 2 What happens when the gutter and panels of a comic are transparent?
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Street Scene Abstract 18 series 2

Abstract 18 series 2 This is my first attempt at revisiting the process making these comics. I like the ambiguous role of the paint. Sometimes it functions as a gutter sometimes as a panel. Abstract 19 is another piece done with the same found image.
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Abstract Comics from New Zealand part 1

A while ago I put a call out to the New Zealand comics community to see if anyone had made any Abstract Comics recently. I only got a couple of responses, here is one of them:
By Isaac Freeman

first published in Funtime Comics #23: The Walls of Halls

Statement by Isaac:
Very occasionally I try to do a comic with a specific formal agenda. In this case the objective was to produce something that was completely abstract but also definitely sequential, and to do it entirely by hand. The production involved tracing repeatedly from a master pencilled panel, which I reworked between each frame. While I met the technical requirements I set for myself, I don't think it's particularly interesting as a comic, because the transitions between panels are very rigid and simple. It could just as well be a series of stills from an animation.

Issac is the current editor of the long running New Zealand anthology Funtime Comics.

Personally I like it.
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Weather

Weather Abstract comic with all the panels together. I also published it as pages which starts here. I wanted to try my hand at multipage Abstract comics.
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Perfect Modernism diptych

Separately the pieces can be seen here and here. I like the idea of fracturing modernism.
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Photos?

Any chance that some photos of the exhibition and/or the opening reception can be posted? I would love to see some since I couldn't make it.

Interview with Draw

Recently I did an email interview for a New Zealand Comics and Pop Culture Blog about the Abstract Comics Anthology. Where we discuss it and my abstract comics practice. Check it out here.

Extract:

AK: You've also experimented with having content inside and outside of a panel grid, for example, Series 1 Abstract 8 set 'They are coming'. Did you find one effect more interesting than the other, or was it more about exploring the contrast between to two effects?

DRAW: I had an epiphany. The gutter is where all the action in a comic takes place, its where the reader creates the comic reading experience. The Abstract Seven set from series One is the first experiments I did looking into this. I wasn't trying to create effects, I was trying to create a visual representation of what happens in the gutter of a comic.

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Abstract 18 Series 3 ‘Lines’

Abstract 18 I like the rough and spontaneous aspect to this comic and how the dry brushing catches the wrinkle of the paper. This is another of my comics looking at the gutter and panel relationship.
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Abstract 11b Series 3 ‘Lines’

Abstract 11b Another version of Abstract 11a This is another of my works which I am happy with. I like the idea that all the 'action' of the comic is happening within the panel frame, not in the panel or in the gutter.
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Abstract 3 Series 2 remix

Abstract 3 Series 2 remix. This is my favourite remix to date. The black gutter really creates a fragmented, distorted, disorientating feel which I am really happy with. The panels strangely remind me of the TV screen, like watching distorted TV.
original Abstract 3
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When is a comic not a comic?

When it is a Gang by Richard Prince

VieneseSunsets
This looks like a Abstract Comic to me
found here

There isn't many images of his 'gangs' on the net but what I saw struck me as being comics under another name. Or at least being able to be interpreted as comics, abstract or otherwise. I can see why they are not comics, he is interested in different ideas, they are collections or gangs of similar images. Still I find them really interesting in terms of my own abstract comics exploration.

Gang (Fashion), 1982-1984
Black and white photograph
I really want to put word balloons within the panels
found here

So what do people think? Are they Comics? Does anyone know more about him? Is there any other 'fine arts' artists who don't know they are making abstract comics?

Thanks Dick Whyte for showing me Richard Prince.

Abstract 7 series 3

Abstract 7 is another comic looking at the gutter of comics
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Abstract 17 Series 3 ‘Lines’ page 6

Abstract 17 is a six page experiment. Page one is here. I was interested in exploring several ideas. Breaking up and spreading out the elements of a comic over several pages. Seeing if people would use these elements to create narrative. How viewing these pages on the Internet would effect how people viewed these images.
I also like this comic page on its own for its pure miminalism.
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