two pages of an unwritten book

by Rosaire Appel

Teaching with Abstract Comics

Good morning, students. 

Here are a couple examples I've found (thanks to Google Alerts) of Abstract Comics being used in classrooms:

#1: This was posted by Jonita Griffith, an art teacher in Astoria, New York, who had her class make abstract comics:

Here's the link: http://jonitagriffith.net/4.html

Here's one sample:

#2: Some pieces from the book, along with questions about those pieces, are being used for an Art Appreciation class taught by Ruth Meredith at Lewis University, Chicago: 

Link to the pdf: http://artappreciationkafb.wikispaces.com/file/view/Abstract+Comics+Examples.pdf

#3: In case you missed this when it was posted back in February 2010, here is an article about high school students in Moscow, Russia who were inspired by the anthology to make their own abstract comics:

http://abstractcomics.blogspot.com/2010/02/abstract-comics-workshop-in-moscow.html

See more photos and download the pdf here: http://proteytemen.com/blog/abstract-comics/?lang=en

P.S. If you are a teacher who is working with abstract comics in your class, please feel free to contact me at: getsiv(at)ipinc(dot)net and let me know if you want your example posted here. 

Sails again

But on a light box. See the original comic here. I've actually posted the original here as well a while back.
Drawingsilence.com

Anger

ANGER ANGER anger ANGER ANGER ANGER ANGER ANGER ANGER anger ANGER anger ANGER ANGER ANGER anger anger ANGER anger
Drawingsilence.com

A sequence

Edit: I now posted the original art to this here: http://blotcomics.blogspot.com/2011/05/sequence.html

shapes

shapes, a photo by Jason Overby on Flickr.

blue print gold

 digital prints. Rosaire Appel. 2011.

Finally.

My book is finished!

'Narrative in abstract drawing'

Here you can see a preview:

http://www.blurb.com/books/2162715

And you can order the 100 pages book.

"Beautiful Designs" by Sam Spina

Sam Spina does the webcomic Spinadoodles. This was yesterday's installment:



Sam's comment: "Based on actual tissues."

Thanks to Matt Graupman for pointing this out to me!

Recent sketchbook pages

I've posted a good number of recent sketchbook pages over on Blotcomics. Click the pic:

Seneca on a Moebius strip

Over at CBR, friend-of-the-blog Matt Seneca writes about a particularly abstract page by Moebius:



Also check out this comic with nearly abstract art (+ words) by Matt himself: On Neptune

Play-Doh rings

From here.

Gary Panter, cubist and (nearly) abstract

"Cubist Jimbo," 1980:



"Abstract Jimbo" and "Abstract Smoggo," 1982:



From Gary's current show at Galerie Martel, Paris.

Food

Abstract 28 Series 2, a permanent marker comic. Posted this this week on my website. A comic where I used a magazine page with multiple images on it.
Drawingsilence.com