{"id":139,"date":"2012-10-29T17:20:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T17:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/canvas\/?p=139"},"modified":"2016-06-08T08:23:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T08:23:06","slug":"abstract-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/research\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Abstract Comics?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have started looking in more depth at the idea of ‘abstract comics’. There is an anthology assembled by Andrei Molotiu called ‘Abstract Comics’. He also has a very interesting blog at : http:\/\/abstractcomics.blogspot.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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This anthology includes work by Mark Staff Brandl.<\/p>\n

It made me look again at the ‘Suit of Nettles’ work I produced for the Connect Course and exhibited at Lincoln. Although ostensibly a series of illustrations for a suite of songs the interesting thing was that as a non-linear series of unrelated images they could be hung together in any order.This leads in a strange way to some experimental work I have been doing in the studio with ‘abstract narratives’. This is why I was so interested in the series of drawings displayed on Guston’s studio wall…almost in a comic strip fashion.(see post below). I have played with a comic approach before as can be seen in these paintings (all sold or destroyed) from 2005. It is not a big stretch from these works to the paintings from September 2011 when I first had a painting studio again. https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/canvas\/?p=28<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t