The cage

قبل از شروع جلد ششم از The Obscure Cities ، دوست داشتم بیشتر درباره مارتین وان-جیمز که در نسخه فرانسوی L'Enfant penchée (The Leaning Girl) به عنوان "همکار" اسمش اومده بدونم. شنیده بودم از بدعت‌گذاران رمان گرافیکی هست و یه اثر داره که نه کارکتر داره، نه دیالوگ و نه حتی پلات; یه جریان سیال ذهنِ تصویری Leggi tutto

This 1975 "visual novel" offers a unique collision of words and images. Imagine an Alain Robbe-Grille novel illustrated by Roland Torpor (Fantastic Planet, etc) and you're partway there. Or perhaps an architectural manual storyboarded by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Deeply cryptic and evocative of somethin Leggi tutto

When Seth calls something a masterwork, I listen. When he calls the artist a "national treasure" such as Marshall McLuhan or Norman McLaren or Glenn Gould, I pay attention. His fine prefatory essay begins to get at how this 1972 comic novel explores and capitalizes on the resources of the comics med Leggi tutto

Sorry, but this is a bunch of pretentious nonsense. The words are hyped-up overwrought baloney. The art is technically accurate but soulless. Maybe I'd be impressed if I was high.

Don't expect anything while reading this. The Cage is one of those abstract projects that you just have to "experience".

Amazing drawings. Amazing drawings. Amazing drawings. also Words, Atmosphere. Abstract. A Modern piece of work. The whole concept formed in its structure - the absence, of women or men and bodies even animals, characters, voices even if we can hear sounds, and time. So, there is not a generic logic li Leggi tutto

There's an inside joke in academia that goes something like this: if you want to submit a paper to a conference and present it there, change the first two sentences of whatever you're working on to reflect the theme of said conference and send it along. You've got a chance. Rinse and repeat. I mentio Leggi tutto