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EPIGRAPH!

Sebald, W.G., Rings of Saturn

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I will be attending the Society of Illustrators/MoCCA Arts Festival this weekend at the 69th Regiment Armory at 68 Lexington Avenue in NYC.

Table D120 with Pat Barrett, L. Nichols, and Darryl Ayo.

A collection of my work will be available: 'Art Theft & Other Stories', 80 pages with a screenprinted cover.

Friends, Family, Vague Cartooning Acquaintances, Auditors/Editors and Creditors: Feel free to stop by!

Disassembly

Here, perhaps, we have arrived at the heart of our story.

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You don't want to break our hearts

From Snow by Orhan Pamuk.

I think I said I think

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Your instruction is personal

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Notes on GREYS

This is less a review and more of a brief general impression of the comic GREYS, by Olivier Schrauwen.

54 pages, 2 panels per page, black & white. Really nice use of grayscale throughout.

Published by Gabe Fowler at Desert Island.

Order it here.

U-tube promo flip-thru video here.

Of specific interest is Schrauwen’s use of abstract mark-making in panels depicting emotion. He refers to them as ‘word-image vignettes’.

These feel similar or akin to Denkbild, an approach at literary depiction of concepts ('thought-images') put forth by Walter Benjamin, TW Adorno, Ernst Bloch, and Siegfried Kracauer around 1920-1950.

More info about Denkbild can be found in Gerhard Richter’s book, Thought-Images: Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life. Or check out Benjamin's essay One-way Street, or Adorno's book, Minima Moralia.