Almost 20 years ago in 2006, when I was at art school, I was looking into photocopy techniques in art and printmaking and came across the work of Carl Beam. I quickly fell in love with his process and work. Now in 2023 I am living in Canada and was invited to First Nations University for an outreach event. We were kindly offered lunch as part of the event. After grabbing a plate, I sat down at a table and an artwork on the wall next to me caught my eye. My head whipped around as I realised it was a Carl Beam Original! The I turn my head more and there are three more originals.
As the author of Wordless Books and many articles on wordless comics, I hear this often...and you have captured the scene beautifully! I always point critics to work by Eric Drooker, Peter Kuper, Thomas Ott, Vincent Fortemps, Frederic Coche, Anna Sommer, Henderik Dorgathen, Jason, Jim Woodring, Sara Varon....and ask them if I should continue with my list, at which point they meekly shut up!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment. Yeah I'm a huge fan of Drooker and Kuper. I'm shaming myself in the comic for not expressing myself clearly. My main mistake was that i was trying to say two different things at once which came out sounding completely wrong. I hope the comics fixes that up to some degree.
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