"Though it’s unlikely you’ll write something nobody has ever heard of, the way you have a chance to compete is in the way you say it. Now I’ve been writing for almost twenty years, and I still feel the same way. That is how I assemble stories—me and a hundred million other people—at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line."
-Amy Hempel
What Hempel is saying is how I keeping trying to look at comics. I fail sometimes, and I want some grand meaning to be grasped for and it makes me think Kirby is dumb, Clyde Fans is boring, and Watchmen is ham fisted.
But when I focus only on the rudiments: Kirby's visionary cubistic machinery, Seth's elegance and design sense, Moore's complexity, I love those things. In my own work, I know I'm not saying anything profound, but I try to assemble interesting rudiments that people might take pleasure in.
The overall object, the thing, the story doesn't have to be perfect or beautiful is what I'm saying. It can be clunky and stupid and I can still get something out of it.
22 comments:
yay
i think that what you are saying in your work is profound. you thematize creative struggle in a way that is both confusing and clarifying. what more profound than that?
profound doesn't just have to be a volcano spewing lava and it takes all of the tourists unaware and half of them die in a blaze and the other half escape and look back and take pictures and weep and sigh because their lives were just saved miraculously, it can also be merely a glance that you remember tomorrow amirite?
Die a beat us.
as a british girl
Where have all the comics heroes gone?
Are there enough green shirts to go around?
It's 4am. Do you know where your forced meme generator is?
I thought Tribeca would be different.
Fitzgerald Aidan Koch a Lantern.
And I'm beginning to see the light, yes Ma, I'm beginning to see the light.
1979, a whisper
@IN MY GREEN SHIRT, SUP
sup
@forced meme
Did you mean: xzibit
na bra
buy me a shirt?
halp me to fly?
dont b bashful
mascara lashful
dive a trashful
season cancel
this question:
Zak Sally, Tim Hodler, Brian Nicholson
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myself, myself, myself
how to dougie at this point
[raised Impact, white]
I like the second piece, is that yours? I think the key is that it works as an assemblage (like Duchamps etc) but it also works as comic grids, if only as an echo. Like I can read across these assemblage, these gaps.
Johannes
@Johannes
authentic alt
:) o-kae :)
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i own one million doll hairs
Johannes - thanks & yes. It's the envelope of a package I sent to Andy Burkholder, cut up and framed by him.
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