Footnote links:Kind of bummed I missed the 24 hour abstract comic day - Process.
Finger Painting: Dead End - The New Yorker
Unexpected precursors: Scott McCloud, part II - Abstract Comics: The Blog
A man, a plan, a canal - weathercraft! - The Woodring Monitor
The Swipe File - Nest Issue!
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swoon...
awesome stuff
Steve I had a strange experience looking at the first panel of that comic. It seemed strangely familiar then I realized it must have been drawn in conjunction with the following (in a booklet done in 1996):
'One afternoon the man who saw was seen at the best stop. He was reprimanding a woman as she got on the bus and though it was difficult to hear what he was saying, it seemed quite harsh. The man was about to get on also when, at the last meoment he spun around and headed back towards the bench. Then just as abruptly, he turned his attention to the ground and started lecturing again. As he did, he bent over at the waist and pointed at the concrete shaking his finder. Bending lower and lower, he sternly addressed the spot that offended him, until he finally gave the sidewalk a polk and let out a loud laugh.
Screens blown out of his windows, the Man Who Saw had the whole world whistling through his head. He was no longer able to narrow down experience into what he felt in opposition to , and what was just there, acquiescent. At odds with all of matter, he had set out to defeat it bit by bit for the rest of his days.'
-Having had a more experience with mental illness now, it all seems quite romanticized, but that's youth for ya... Brock
YES! Brock you are right. I remember in the first Fish or Cut Bait, well, actually, the only print edition, you wrote two of the other "stories" or vignettes. I suspected that this was partially yours and it was all just too weird as I have been revisiting the sequential art world as I've been checking out today's Abstract Comics crowd. Then your phone call came, all the way from Scotland and the double weirdness of us naming our dogs Boo.
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