It's official! Plus, museum show.

Since Amazon sez so!

Also, have I mentioned that I'm in this traveling show--Currently at the Krannert Art Museum in Urbana-Champaign, to move to Denver in January, and then other places too? Please come see it if you have a chance--you'll see all eight pages of the original art of "Exhibition to the Interior," a nice digital print of "The Panic," plus a super hi-tech 3-D version (with 3-D goggles included) of "Alcoholalia," my Maakies remix.

As to that "underrepresented" thing in the subtitle: I'm not sure experimental and gallery comics are "underrepresented" in the same way that women and minority artists were under (read: non) represented in the "Masters of American Comics" show, to which this one was conceived as a response--but hey, I'm grateful for the company, and companionship! By the way, try to get a hold of the catalogue--it's beautiful, really well designed, and there's a lot of my stuff in it. (It's not on Amazon. I know it's available from the museum, but I can't find a link, sorry.)

One more "by the way": I'll be at the Krannert this Saturday, for a panel discussion connected to the show. More info here.

"Brain Trust redrawn" details

...as requested by Troy Lloyd:









or did you mean like this?

Psychedelia!

The Brain Trust redrawn

[click for larger image]

24" x 19", ink on paper (the margins are wider in the original)

Drawn entirely* with a Winsor & Newton Cotman no. 2 brush, which, dammit, works better than my much more expensive series 7.

*well, except for some of the larger expanses of black, where I used an older beat-up brush

compare: the digital original

see also: part of the same project and brief explanation of the process

While I'm making book announcements, I should point out that "24 x 24: A Vague Epic," on which these hand-redrawings/completions are based, will be printed in my book "Nautilus," coming this spring from Danish publisher Fahrenheit.

What passed for abstract comics back in 2001

http://web.archive.org/web/20011113040600/palladio.arch.kth.se/~henke/comics/strange.html

Courtesy of the Google January 2001 index, http://www.google.com/search2001.html

If there are any readers of this blog who still don't know that the anthology of abstract comics that I've edited is set to come out from Fantagraphics Books in June 2009, well, now you know.

Incidentally, I made my first abstract comic in the fall of 2002, and published it in my mini Blots, 2003. Now it's been reprinted in Asemic no. 5.

"Pym" redrawn

ink on paper, 17" x 14", 2 sheets

Two of the missing pages from "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym"

After troylloyd. See here.

UPDATE: color version.