I read this book twice (due diligence) and it feels like Garden and it feels like Travel. World Map Room by Yuichi Yokoyama (Picturebox, 2013): I get the feeling Yokoyama is stuck in a rut. It’s like a legacy form (the old 8 page comic) that comics can’t get rid off, and it’s wrapped up in the “comics as literature” problem (real authors write short stories and novels). They always feel so in-between (not brief/long enough, too much/not enough narrative). Too short to have any depth, too focused on narrative to be too visually engaging (beyond on a brief “oh that looks interesting”). The short comic story usually with a “literary” short fiction quality is just so boring (and I don’t just mean in this comic, I mean in general). And in general I’m just not interested in the narratives, they don’t do anything for me. Reading it, I often found it hard to tell when I was finishing a distinct short story and when the tone/color of the story had just changed. The rest of the comics are varying sorts of short narratives. The left is just the colors fields, the right has a dense hatching of purple showing two windswept trees and then a ship on some turbulent water. Two pages with identical layouts in green and pink/orange. One of my other favorite spreads is in the first half of the book. It’s evocative and unusual in its minimalism. I loved the inside cover/first page, a spread of a comic that is just thin precise colored (panels alternate green and red) lines delineating corners of rooms, shelves, stairs, walls. It’s the kind of book you’d pick up and get all interested in by way of the impressive production and immediate visual notice. There’s even a little minicomic inserted in the middle of the book. The printing has lots of colors (limited palette per page, maybe it’s Riso?) heavy on purple, and the color is well used throughout. The cover has an odd (but not bad) waxy/plastic feel to it. Windowpane 2 by Joe Kessler (Breakdown Press, 2013): Really high production values on this one man pamphlet anthology. I have no clue what they are supposed to be or represent, but they add an intriguing geometry to some of the images. I love the little colored (precise) curves in some of these drawings, and am thrilled the original drawing includes two of them (in blue). I don’t detect enough of a method to say this is inherently a “sequence” of images. #Beautiful trauma torrnet series#More art zine than comic, but not totally divorced from the structuring series that is comics-esque. A small original drawing (like the inside but not one of the specific images in the book) is slipped into the front cover. The drawings are pencil, ink, and watercolor (or maybe just colored ink) and quite lovely, though some of them are muddied in the presentation (some combination of the color of the translucent paper, the printing itself, or the background paper). I didn’t write about everything because in some cases I just didn’t have anything to say more than “I didn’t like this” or “this was not to my taste” in a way that didn’t really explain anything or address some aspect of the work/medium that I found interesting.īalcony Zine by Evie Cahir (2013): Grey cardstock covers enclosing a series of blank cream pages interspersed with translucent brown pages that are printed with drawings of potted plants. They are mostly short comics because I find it so much easier to write about shorter comics since I can read them multiple times and flip through them while maintaining a sense of the comic as a whole. They are all the result of at least two times reading the comics, though in some cases those readings were a month or more earlier (and I just flipped through them before/as I wrote). They are not edited (except one pass right before posting). Then the comics piled up on my desk, I stopped keeping track of what I read… I was originally going to write 1 review for every day in December as a follow-up to 30 Days of Comics (which was all on my Tumblr, but I’ll probably do a collected post here soon), but then I didn’t do that… finally on December 6 I just started writing short posts on Tumblr about (almost) all the comics that were piled on the desk next to my computer. I got behind because of SPX and then I got/read so many comics after SPX that I was just overwhelmed and stopped writing. My monthly posts of “Every Comic I Read In” died off with SPX. #Beautiful trauma torrnet torrent#For redirection to newer content, go to the homepage.Ī torrent of writing about the comics on my desk 12/6 – 12/7
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