collaboration by Christian Dotremont & Pierre Alechinsky

abrupte fable, 1976

Pierre Alechinsky & Christian Dotremont were members of CoBrA, a very short-lived group.

this image taken from the superb visual culture blog gramatologia.

visual poem by Andrew Topel

from Andrew's book LETTERS PATTERNS STRUCTURES (avantacular, 2010).

Ever Narrowing Zig Zags and Their Overlapped Reflections

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"Nautilus" available again

I just got a new (and final) shipment of copies of "Nautilus" from Copenhagen. About 8"x 12", hardcover, 48 pages, includes my pieces "Expedition to the Interior" (listed as a notable comic in "The Best American Comics 2009"), "24 x 24: A Vague Epic," and "[otherwise untitled]."



More information here. If you would like a copy, contact me (my email is in my profile). $20 a pop.

Brandl: Litho comic

Here's another recent 3-stone lithograph i made which exists as a print (one sheet) and as a leporello-folded comic book. It is titled Self-Reflexive Mark, with and obvious play on my name. It travels between abstraction and representation, beginning left with images of the three tools I used to make the piece (and usually use), traveling through some "homage" abstractions, to the self-portrait on the right, based on the full length, life-sized self-portrait painting in my last painting-installation, here only a "detail," my hand with the brush.

Dungeonmap

I believe there might be a connection between making abstract comics and being a former 13 year old

coffee-drinking dungeon master...

(well, there is for me at least.)