Click image to really enlarge. It’s still not gonna be completely legible—for that, you’ll have to see the actual magazine (available at the Arthur Store for cheep)—but it’s pretty good.
Leif Goldberg: http://www.pictureboxinc.com/artists-authors/leif-goldberg
Arthur’s Comics Editor in this era was Tom Devlin.
Click image to really enlarge. It’s still not gonna be completely legible—for that, you’ll have to see the actual magazine (available at the Arthur Store for cheep)—but it’s pretty good.
Megan Kelso: girlhero.com
Arthur’s Comics Editors in this era were Jordan Crane & Sammy Harkham.
Click image to really enlarge. It’s still not gonna be completely legible—for that, you’ll have to see the actual magazine (available at the Arthur Store for cheep)—but it’s pretty good.
Souther Salazar: southersalazar.net
Arthur’s Comics Editors in this era were Jordan Crane & Sammy Harkham.
Floating World Animation Fest returns with a new name and trippier mission. We’ve dug even deeper into the vaults of psychedelic animation to curate a heroic dose of visionary video art for this year’s animation fest.
For our fourth annual animation fest it was time to focus on what we liked best from previous shows and continue to seek out films that really embrace the infinite mysteries that resonate with us. The result is DMTV, a program that goes further into experimental realms of video art and abstract visuals.
Remixed, remastered and featuring new films by King Terry, Amy Lockhart and more!
DMTV trailer – Floating World Animation Fest, Show Cave, Feb. 19th 2011 from Floating World Comics on Vimeo.
LISTING INFORMATION:
WHO: Films by: Barry Doupe, Michael Robinson, Jesus Rivera, Jacob Ciocci, King Terry, Dash Shaw, Kihachiro Kawamoto, Amy Lockhart, Milton Croissant, QS Vore Guy, James Mercer, David O’Reilly, Eurico Coelho, Yoshi Sodeoka
WHAT: FWC’s 4th annual animation fest
WHEN: Saturday, February 19th, 8pm – midnight
WHERE: Show Cave, 3501 Eagle Rock Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
COST: $5, 21+
Highlights of this year’s program include:
Travel, aka The Trip (1973) – Kihachiro Kawamoto studied puppet animation in Prague in 1963 before going on to create his own haunting puppet and cut-out animations drawing from his own Japanese heritage. Travel depicts the journey of a young girl into the Dali-esque landscape of her own psyche.
Apeiron (1996) – Eurico Coelho depicts a modern technological labyrinth where society has surrendered to the cold lamps of their computer screens. The entirety of this ten minute film was animated on a Commodore Amiga 4000, giving the film a completely fresh aesthetic that has outlived the technology with which it was created.
The Peace Tape (2008) – With a title hearkening back to the analog era, The Peace Tape is a frenetic remix of old and new “found” video. Culling his sources from thrift stores (countless straight-to-VHS childrens’ programs), the Internet (a single YouTube clip featuring “dog in a dog costume”), and his own designs (flash animation of eyes and mouths, subliminal flickers of text), Ciocci concentrates hours of light entertainment into a dense, four-minute block. Saved from total sensory overload by the musical logic of Extreme Animals’ “A Better Way,” The Peace Tape is cryptic, hypnotic (and above all), empathetic. “Culture is out of control,” Ciocci explains, “but it is ok.”
The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D (2009) – This original animated web series is based on graphic novelist and comic book artist Dash Shaw’s latest book of the same title. Shaw’s animation has been widely praised for its eclectic style, innovative design and emotional depth.
A friend just got back from Angoulême Comics Festival in Paris. He also got to experience Moebius’ first major exhibit of artwork at the Foundation Cartier. The show is up until March 13 if you can make it. If not, there’s a set of amazing photos at designboom that made me wide eyed with awe.
Thomas Toye is an artist living in Patterson, NY. He and his brother print all kinds of stuff out of a shed in their backyard. They both run Portal Prints. They are watched over by Gumpster Pussy and the Great Cobra.
I came across his art on one of Mickey Z’s blog posts. I thought it was cute that he did two versions of a silkscreen poster, a Sega Genesis version with red blood and a SNES version with green blood.
He has self published 8 issues of Illogical Comics so far. We decided to share issue 7 with you since it is out of print and otherwise unavailable. All other back issues are available for purchase on his blog.
In March of 1995, artist, poet and musician Bryan Lewis Saunders started a project to paint or draw a new self portrait every day for the rest of his life. In 2000 he was living in an 11 story apartment building where he planned to film a documentary about its well known population of creeps and loonies. One day a paraplegic was showing him a huge encyclopedia of pills and he said that you could find each of these pills somewhere in the building. This inspired him to do a series where he would try a different drug every day and then draw a self portrait under the influence.
It’s interesting to observe not only the differences in drawing styles, but also to have something tangible and external that represents the changes that occur with slight adjustments to one’s brain chemistry.
Too often, discussions about chemicals are oversimplified if you simply categorize them by what’s legal and what’s not. It’s important to be aware that any chemical you put in your body is going to affect you whether it’s thc, caffeine, msg, ritalin, or heroin. I admire Bryan for the experimental and possibly hazardous research he is sharing with the world.
There’s a great interview with Bryan on dinosaurcity where he talks more about the drug project. I also recommend exploring his website where you can see more of the self portrait series and also check out his discography of experimental music and spoken word albums which deal with the same topics. One of his latest LPs “Near Death Experience” was ranked #2 on a Wire Magazine best of list for 2010. Less than 20 vinyl copies left, available directly from Bryan’s website.
10 mg Ambien
10mg Adderall
Butane Honey Oil
1/2 gram Cocaine
2 bottles of Cough Syrup
1 “Bump” of Crystal Meth
I came across an archive of Reggae and Dancehall LP artwork by graphic designer, Wilfred Limonious. From the feelgood cartoon characters to the bright 80s style hand drawn geometric shapes, this artwork puts a smile on my face. Check out the full archive here.
I came across Marie’s (or Marijpol) work in a German comics anthology called Orang. I was immediately attracted to her confident, cartoony style and the mysterious symbolism encoded in her work. On her website I found this funny series of illustrations called ‘Transcendental Police’. We decided to start with this one because the translation was pretty simple and the humor works even without the translations. Hopefully we’ll be sharing more from this talented artist in the future.
1.Transcendental Police
2. It’s a dogs’ choice
3. In rank and file – Parade ’93
4. In honour of Hannibal
5. Gunshots to happiness
6. The confession
7. Adam
8. Intuitive paperwork
9. The new Auromat
10. has no title…
I was born in Berlin in 1982, living in Hamburg now. I have published in several comic anthologies like Orang, Spring (Germany) and Canicola (Italy). This year my first book is gonna be published by avant-Verlag(the publisher). Its title is “Trommelfels” (that is a wordgame and aproximately means eardrum but also drum made from stone).
The book is about a frustrated elderly couple.They are archeologists working at a bizarre excavation ground in the desert. They are desperate to find something sensational at the end of their career. Which they wont. But there is somebody else who is stumbling across that sensation just by chance.
Michel Fiffe is the writer/artist/colorist of Zegas. Between his comics work and building props and costumes for Broadway, Michel has also interviewed many of his cartoonist heroes at The Comics Journal as well as writing creator retrospectives on his art blog . He is also currently editing a line of indy back-up stories for Image Comics’ flagship title Savage Dragon.
Box Brown is a cartoonist living in Philadelphia, PA. He sent us an email proposing a series of comics on different historical or philosophical subjects. For the past year he’s been working on a project called “Everything Dies”, a web and print series about religion from the perspective of an atheist. We decided to start with one of these but who knows where we’ll go next?
Looking over this comic, “But I Don’t Want to Die”, it may seem that I am a highly open to influence. That may be the case, but when it comes to topics like this, the most important thing to remember is that if you keep your mind open a tiny little nugget of information can grow into a full blown philosophy. I think that’s mostly whats going on here, lots of rumination. So, beware when reading my other comics at everythingdiescomic.com and when you pick up the print issues of Everything Dies (all original content).
Simon Roy is a talented young artist from Victoria, BC. I first noticed his work when Simon was on a book tour with Brandon Graham earlier this year. He’s had some great science fiction comics published in Heavy Metal magazine and I highly recommend his debut graphic novel, Jan’s Atomic Heart.
