false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1241483715m/6443644.jpg 6443644 1 Beginning with the experiments of Saul Steinberg, through some of the more psychedelic creations of R. Crumb, and more recently, cartoonists created comics whose panels contain little to no representational imagery, and which tell no stories. Reduced to the panel grid, brushstrokes, and sometimes colors, abstract comics highlight the formal mechanisms that underlie all comics. The first collection devoted to this genre, Abstract Comics: The Anthology, is edited by Andrei Molotiu, an art historian and contemporary abstract-comic creator. It gathers the best abstract comics so far, including early experiments by Gary Panter, Patrick McDonnell, and Lewis Trondheim, and pieces by little-known pioneers such as Benoit Joly, Bill Boichel and Jeff Zenick, as well as by recent practitioners such as Ibn al Rabin, Billy Mavreas, Mark Staff Brandl, and many others. Abstract Comics also features first attempts, commissioned specifically for this anthology, by well-known cartoonists such as James Kochalka, Ivan Brunetti, J.R. Williams and Warren Craghead. 6633655 30 6 2009 Abstract Comics: The Anthology total:3|5:1|4:0|3:1|2:0|1:1| 3 9 15 1 3 0 false false Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Oct 23 20:51:32 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 07 08:20:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Nov 21 09:40:53 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 09:40:53 -0800 2009 1 0 false false Tue Nov 17 06:13:39 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 06:13:39 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Oct 27 21:22:18 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 21:22:18 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Oct 24 15:03:35 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 15:03:35 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Oct 11 08:37:27 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 08:37:27 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Oct 14 09:10:25 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 13:04:35 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 09:10:25 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Aug 13 22:28:59 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 22:28:59 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Aug 07 03:46:19 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 03:46:19 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Aug 03 19:11:48 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 19:11:48 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jul 18 10:19:18 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 10:19:22 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jun 08 13:02:03 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 13:02:03 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue May 05 13:46:23 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 13:46:23 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue May 05 12:42:57 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 12:42:57 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Sep 29 17:42:33 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 17:34:19 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 17:42:33 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6443644