women

A new review of the Anthology by comicsgirl.

And she is right when it comes to including women in the book.

But I'm sure Andrei would feature them if they excist and make good abstract comics.

Maybe they are somewhere out there and we need to find them.

Or maybe because there are very few abstract comics artists and because most comics are still made by men, there must be an even smaller amount of women working in this field.

So girlz, come on, start making abstract comics!!

Petit Trait by Baladi

I just published a review on my blog of Baladi's "Petit Trait", an abstract comic in L'Association's Patte de Mouche series. Not a shining example of abstract comics, it was published in late 2008.

visual poem by John Moore Williams

from http://fissuresofmen.blogspot.com/ (his others are in different styles)

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Oh yeah, it's Wednesday...

The book is in the stores! So go down to your LCBS, and feast your eyes. (And, oh yeah, buy it.)

To celebrate, here is an image you will not see anywhere else. When designing the cover, Jacob "resident design genius" Covey came up with two possibilities. We picked one (obviously!). Here's the one we didn't pick--which is still pretty great too:



Of course, if you go to the comic-book shop to look for that cover, you won't find it--so, to remind you (and for comparison purposes), here's what the actual cover looks like (yes, I know, posted here for the millionth time):



Which one would you have picked?

Brandl: Batman Abstract? No, but Thor and Captain Bold

As Andrei pointed out, one of the nifftiest comments about "our" anthology has been Deadpool who said, "Can you imagine batman done in that kind of drawing style, I think it owuld be freaking awesome." Thanks million Deady!

Some one of us will have to work on that! I haven't done Batman yet, But I did do a large, two panel oil and acrylic painting (105 x 210 cm / 41 in x 833 in) back in 2001, which was based on a part of the drawing of Thor's bicep by Kirby, right, with a similar bicep drawn by my highly-Kirby-influenced comic artist friend Gary Scoles --- when he and I were only about 11 years old, and of his character (which I also drew), Captain Bold. That is on the left. It is overlayed with two snippets of handwriting, "s" and "p," from a friend in Switzerland who is a novelist, from the German word "Spezial." I wasn't fully into complete sequentiality then, but it was creeping up on me! It was exhibited in a show of mine in Paris (France, the real one), which I did with the experimental New Music composer Duncan Youngerman. He did a great concert in the space of a piece he did inspired by comic artists of the Silver Age.
Oh yeah --- it's titled Team-Up for obvious reasons

And they keep coming...

Chris Mautner pick of the week at Comic Book Resources:

Making this my pick of the week isn’t going to do anything to alleviate my reputation as Snooty McSnootenstein, mayor of Snobville, but this is one hell of a gorgeous book. Answering the question, “Do comics need to have a narrative or be representational in order to still be comics?” with a decisive “Hell, yes,” editor Andrei Molotiu has put together a stunning collection of work from folks like Robert Crumb, Mark Badger, Gary Panter, Patrick McDonnell and Lewis Trondheim. A full review will appear here sometime soon, but in the meantime I’ll just say I liked this book very, very much.

Thanks, Chris! But... I think you mean "Hell, no!"

J. Caleb Mozzocco at Newsarama:

Abstract Comics Anthology: I’m one of those who considers the first two words of this title to be an oxymoron. That, ironically, probably makes me a good candidate for reading this book. It’s edited by art historian and abstract-comic creator Andrei Molotiu and, according to publisher Fantagraphics, it is “the first collection devoted to this budding genre.” You can’t argue with the list of contributors: R. Crumb, Patrick McDonnell, Mark Badger, Gary Panter, Lewis Trondheim, James Kochalka, Blaise Larmee, Panayiotis Terzis, Noah Berlatsky and a whole mess of others. It’s $40 for 200 pages, and you can take a look here.