What's a Panel?

The Chase: Page 1

I will be serializing a longer abstract work here and on my blog on Sundays.

Here is page 1:

for Andrei - (seafoam)

Alechinsky in the MOMA

I was up in NYC last weekend (mostly to see the Garo show at the Center for Book Culture) and visited the MOMA. They've got a show about modern art and mythology up and, lo and behold, I turned a corner and found myself face-to-face with a large Pierre Alechinsky canvas! I snapped this rather poor cell phone picture of it, to share on this blog. (Click for a bigger view.)

Edit (6/12/10): Thanks to commenter Naruse pointing out this piece is viewable on the MOMA site. It's called "The Complex of the Sphinx" from 1967.

A few years ago (on Andrei's recommendation) I learned about Alechinsky and posted some images on my blog.

The first abstract comics candy bar

The "Wonka Exceptionals Chocolate Waterfall Bar."

The inspiration is obvious, isn't it?



:)

Formom

This is just a short one but since I've had it on my website for a while,

I figured I'd post it here too:

P.S. I'm actually on Flickr and Twitter now,

if you care to keep up to date with what I'm working on, plus see a bunch of older work.

as it were

    "as it were", finally finished and available, is a collection of seventeen non-verbal compositions that visually explore the story as a form.

            Considering literary forms, one sees that a poem resides in a shape that is particular to it and inviolable.  A novel, on the other hand, exists in many pages that all look alike. A story occupies a limited enclosure with a consistent though malleable shape.

            Each story in this collection uses a different system of generators, each develops its own language. Like drawing, writing is visual and gestural, but with different constraints.  Without the force of semantic content holding the attention in a specific mode to the page, the differences between drawing and writing begin to soften and the act of looking and the act of reading begin to merge.

            Some of these stories feature asemic writing, others are abstract comics. We are used to listening to content, "as it were" is an opportunity to listen to visual form.  Note: this book contains no words.

Three chapters can be viewed at Scribd.

available at Amazon  or  https://www.createspace.com/3453638