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U-Comix / Heft-Reihe
Comic Strips für Erwachsene
cover: Gilbert Shelton
Reprints from The Best of The Rip Off Press (Rip Off Press, 1973 series) #2 - The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers (1981) / USA
Volksverlag (Linden / Deutschland; 1980)
ex libris MTP
Galeria de la Raza presents
STRANGE HOPE
An ephemeral exhibition celebrating new beginning and creative economies
Opening Reception and Lottery Art Exchange:
Friday, Feb. 6 @ 7:30 pm
Exhibition Dates: February 6 - April 2
An exhibition featuring 8.5” x 8.5” works on paper created by 40 artists celebrating the advent of a new era of hope. The opening reception will include a “lottery” through which all artists will randomly swap their participating work among themselves.
WHERE:
Galería de la Raza|Studio 24 - 2857 24th St. @ Bryant
Gallery Hours: Tues. 1-7 p.m., Wed. – Sat. 12 – 6 p.m.
WHO:
Pilar Aguëro-Esparza, Raúl Aguilar, Juan Alicia, Jesus Barraza, Charles Beronio, Sylvia Buettner, Monica Canilao, Tân Khánh Cao, Victor Cartagena, Melanie Cervantez, Jaime Cortez, Rudy Cuellar, Ali Dadgar, Andy Díaz-Hope, Ana T. Fernández, Colleen Flaherty, Pato Hebert, Giovanni Higuera, Jason Jägel, Jody Jock, Sahar Khoury, John Leaños, Juan Luna Avin, Scott McLeod, Sean McFarland, Julio César Morales, Michelle Muennig, Angélica Muro, Mabel Negrete, Johanna Poethig, Sylvia Poloto, Juan Carlos Quintana, Rigo 23, Artemio Rodríguez, Favianna Rodriguez, Rosa Valdez, Jenifer Wofford and Rio Yañez
Galería’s new exhibition welcomes the Strange Hope of a new era. In honoring creativity and resourcefulness, we invited 40 artists to produce 8.5” x 8.5” works on paper that will respond both to the hopeful aspirations as well as to the uncertainty of these times. Through its collective message of transformation, renewal and collectivity, Strange Hope seeks to bring about unexpected artistic messages to motivate us through the coming times.
The opening night will include a one-time, on-site lottery during which participating artists will randomly swap their work among themselves. In anticipation of the resourcefulness we will need to develop in the current economic climate, this collective action and community exchange seeks to encourage the flow of artistic capitol and welcome an era that calls for refreshing creative economies.
U-Comix / Heft-Reihe
Comic Strips für Erwachsene
cover: Bill Griffith
Reprints from Zippy Stories
(Rip Off Press, 1977 series) #2 ([August] 1978) / USA
Volksverlag (Linden / Deutschland; 1982)
ex libris MTP
Andare a Lucca in questi giorni significa fare un salto in un'altra dimensione: quella super colorata e strafighissima dei cartoons! Un carnevale a tema, in cui l'unica regola è quella di divertirsi vestendo i panni del proprio personaggio del cuore, sia esso l'eroe di un fumetto che quello di un videogame, passando per i personaggi di ogni genere di cartone animato, anime giapponese e manga!
E' il mondo ironico e stralunato del cosplay, che a Lucca trova la sua dimensione!
Un sentito ringraziamento a tutti di vero cuore per aver visitato la mia galleria fotografica !!!
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First page: ACME, the Library of Novelties, number 15, Volume 7, part two.
Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2001
The Depressing Joy of Chris Ware
By Andrew D. Arnold
"The nut's a genius," maestro George Szell reportedly said about the eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. The quote describes comix artist Chris Ware as well. Author of last year's critically-acclaimed graphic novel, "Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth," Ware has finally come out with issue fifteen in his comicbook series "The Acme Novelty Library." After a year and a half of waiting, rest assured that his reputation(s) remain intact.
Just look at the size of that thing. A foot and a half tall and over ten inches wide, it reaches the proportions of menus at Italian "family-style" restaurants. It sure doesn't look like a comicbook. But then, Ware has never produced anything that looked like a comicbook. It's part of his aesthetic. Sub-titled "Book of Jokes," it matches the dimensions of "Acme" number seven, from five years ago. It also follows that issue's format of putting a self contained "gag" on each page rather than a continuous story.
But first you have to get past the cover. It must be opened flat to be properly appreciated. A series of concentric circles form the center of a beautifully symmetric pattern. It resembles one of those mystical organization charts that some kook would meticulously work out, including the cycle of seasons, evolution, day into night, birth into death and all of human thought. Look more closely and you see it also involves Ware's particular motifs of stupidity, loneliness and the mundane.
Much of the jokes get their humor from this kind of existential shaggy dog structure. Quimby the mouse eats breakfast, takes a nap, rushes to the video store before it closes, chooses movies he's seen before but knows he likes and, in a jump of fifty years, lies on his deathbed in an empty hospital room. Or else, in a series of gags titled Tales of Tomorrow, an overfed man-child makes instant purchases on his view screen and schlurps product through a tube in the wall. A trip to the moon results in his doing more of the same in a different place.
Empty consumerism becomes the running theme of the book, typified by the series of stories about Rusty Brown, a nasty collector of pop-culture detritus. He lives in filth but owns the complete Summer of '87 Happy Meal toy series. It's the only work by Ware to clearly condemn a character without offering any sort of forgiveness. This gives the Rusty Brown vignettes a certain savagery but with limited scope. The whole book, owing chiefly to its "gag" format, begins to feel like the same note being hit over and over. It lacks the rich development of the Jimmy Corrigan series. Still, Ware's single note resonates like a tuning fork for America. After putting down "Acme" 15 I opened a piece of junk mail soliciting satellite TV that began, "Bring joy into your life." The Wareian "gag" completed itself in my head: the dish on the window sill, and me alone on the couch in my underwear staring at Jessica Alba.
Even if you don't like the jokes, you can always marvel at the design of the thing. "Acme Novelty Library" takes its title literally. You never get just comix. This issue has a special insert on cardstock of a cut-out, constructible miniature nickelodeon. It would probably work too. Elsewhere he fills an entire giant-sized page with a joke treatise, printed in a phone-book-sized font, on the different types of collectors. As always, even the indicia gets the Ware treatment, in that typically fussy prose of his: "Also, please note, should you be a German 'Hip Hop' band, or a Belgian night club, or a student filmmaker with a project due soon and no ideas — the contents of this volume fall under the general copyright" It goes on.
Those who have never picked up a copy of Chris Ware's "Acme Novelty Library" owe it to themselves to do so. His dedication to the holistic experience of a single comicbook issue has vastly increased the prestige of the medium. Being a stand-alone issue, number 15 will make an excellent introduction. Unlike some past issues he has made it easy to read. Just try not to get too creeped out by the monomaniacal amount of work he obviously puts into it.
"Acme Novelty Library #15" can be found at better comicbook stores and the publisher's website.
Copyright © 2009 Time Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited.
it features me and ghosptrol and acorn and raph banks, but ghosty and acorn and raph really do have very small contributions.
¡Soy rebelde weeeee!
Aclarando: Solo hice el color. La gama de colores es mas viva que la que normalmente utilizo (esa fué una de las varias especificaciones que me enviaron junto con las páginas) así que desempolvé los comics de Danger Girl coloreados por Guy Major y Justin Ponsor, a ver que se me pega.
Color submission. No draw or inks by me, just color.
U-Comix / Heft-Reihe
Comic Strips für Erwachsene
cover: Daniel Torres
Verlag: alpha-comic Verlag (Nürnberg / Deutschland; 1989)
ex libris MTP
Display of my Vignettes at the Vienna Comix - Thx a lot to the LGOE-Team for taking part with my two vignettes!
Page from my new mini-comic, If You Got It, You Got It. Published by Space Face Books, Release party, Nov 9th, 8PM, Bergen Street Comics.