Selections
Aidan Koch's spread. It is visually coherent and plays with structure in an 'organic' way. The left page a mess of pre-sleep imagery, the right page a mess bound by dream structure. The transition between the two curves around the lower left triangle of the left page.
Matt Lock's 'perfect' left page. Where does one go with that perfection, that symmetry? Love that tension, moving forward, moving down, the tension of symmetry in a left-to-right sequential context, the weight of the unread right page bearing upon the eyes. So much build-up but where can it go?
Wet Paint by JTM
Like a tour around the better parts of America given by an insurgent comedian. I got this with Pines 2 and they go well together. Amazing phrases written 'out of necessity', like funny jokes that someone remembers years later in prison, that become the only links to a previous life. Loose phrases written desperately, desperate phrases written loosely.
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This is great. I love Aidan Koch's spread. It's very difficult to fragment characters across a composition and let them retain a sense of identity I think. Really cool.
think i saw that top one in London yesterday. didn't pick it up but found some Overby in that free European comics magazine. very good.
what free european comics magazine?
http://www.modern-spleen.blogspot.com/
oh yeah!
i like how each issue has its own blogspot url. looks cool.
I can't wait to see it! Oliver- e-mail me yer address, and I'll send you a copy of Diamond and maybe some other crap!
That’s very kind of you. I will of course reciprocate for what it’s worth. Can’t find your email address anywhere so fire a missive off to olivereast(at)hotmail(dot)com and let the love-in commence.
best
i feel weird about the 2nd page of mat's comic. it would be so much slower and absorbing if it was split into 4 pages.
i was quite releived though that it still worked as a comic though when all pasted together like that.
i mean that,i love these newspaper format comic anthologies so much, i just wish they could have had the resources or curatiorial zing to have given mat some more space, it would have been kind of epic to see his stuff printed at that scale and on that paper.
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