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In the city, people are always on the move. Due to the high speed, people’s postures lose gravity and people become blobs. The city is so crowded that the city space becomes people or people become the city space. The urban space engulfs people (Disgusting Room). Urbanity eats us.
In the city, people are always on the move. Due to the high speed, people’s postures lose gravity and people become blobs. The city is so crowded that the city space becomes people or people become the city space. The urban space engulfs people (Disgusting Room). Urbanity eats us.
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first I hated it. it's impossible to read, to visually read. then I just let it wash over me. then my brain sort of skewed and it was like reading another language that I couldn't understand intellectually but somehow primally it conveyed a message to me. I doubted the meaning, but the written words in the panels strung the images together, barely. I don't know what to say about this but I'm trying to say something. once my brain shifted I had so many new ideas and feelings somehow. maybe like m...
“I believe making creative work is what leads to new visual ideas”—Austin English “When mystery and ambiguity dominate the straightforward. When words cannot capture meaning. When one is caused to continually wonder what is going on inside this house”—The Comics Reporter“It’s my belief that comics can sometimes be viewed as webs of images that carry some kind of emotional punch for standing on the page together”—Austin English Gulag Casual is a wonderful and strange “experimental” comics collect...
I took this up too quickly. I was trying to distract myself from existing and wanted to take it up slowly, but my Abuela was watching the Weather Channel too long, and then the Breonna Taylor verdict interrupted the latest Days of Our Live episode (ACAB). One guy was supposed to go to the Congo in the epsiode. No one called out his white savior complex. I dunno if he did end up going.
Honestly, I probably wouldn't have read this if I didn't know Austin personally. That's not meant to be a knock on the book itself, but more of an indication of my personal tastes. I've never been a fan of abstract art or "art comics", although I do sometimes find interest in what the artists was attempting to achieve. In other words, I can appreciate the passion behind a piece of art even when it doesn't speak to me specifically. The writing was strong in all of the stories, and the artwork imp...
I had this one for I while I try to read but it's just too hard, I accomplished to end some of the tales but at the end I felt like it wasn't worth it, the tales are very simple and the illustrations are just too hard to follow, I don't know not my cup of tea.[update]I think that I finished it sometime ago, but still the narration is not my cut of tea, cool art tho.
We reviewed this recently on The Comics Alternative: http://comicsalternative.com/episode-.... This is an interesting text, one that challenges the way we read and appreciate comics.
So weird so tender so good
I feel like I couldn't get a lot from this but it was still real wild in a way I appreciate. His work is always really wild and both abstract and story based and I appreciate that
The book consists of five stories drawn between 2010 and 2015. The drawing is so extravagant that it blows away any other quality that the stories have. And they do have other qualities--they are stories after all. The stories are fragmentary and somewhat dreamlike (not surreal, but disjointed like the narratives in dreams often are). But they are otherwise straightforward narratives for the most part. The drawing however is very modernist and improvisational. If I had to make a comparison, I wo...
Peculiar yet human series of stories that makes the scrappy chaos of its drawing style a true asset to conveying the ambiguity of the material. Good stuff for anyone interested in exploring the aesthetic outposts that comics are capable of exploring.
Peculiar yet human series of stories that makes the scrappy chaos of its drawing style a true asset to conveying the ambiguity of the material. Good stuff for anyone interested in exploring the aesthetic outposts that comics are capable of exploring.
Peculiar yet human series of stories that makes the scrappy chaos of its drawing style a true asset to conveying the ambiguity of the material. Good stuff for anyone interested in exploring the aesthetic outposts that comics are capable of exploring.
Peculiar yet human series of stories that makes the scrappy chaos of its drawing style a true asset to conveying the ambiguity of the material. Good stuff for anyone interested in exploring the aesthetic outposts that comics are capable of exploring.
Peculiar yet human series of stories that makes the scrappy chaos of its drawing style a true asset to conveying the ambiguity of the material. Good stuff for anyone interested in exploring the aesthetic outposts that comics are capable of exploring.
Peculiar yet human series of stories that makes the scrappy chaos of its drawing style a true asset to conveying the ambiguity of the material. Good stuff for anyone interested in exploring the aesthetic outposts that comics are capable of exploring.
Peculiar yet human series of stories that makes the scrappy chaos of its drawing style a true asset to conveying the ambiguity of the material. Good stuff for anyone interested in exploring the aesthetic outposts that comics are capable of exploring.
