Kramer's Ergot 5
Just read Kramers Ergot #5. Fucking brilliant. Can't wait for #6. Favourites included CF's work, and David Heatley's detailed account of his own sexual history - made all the more fascinating by the awkwardness with which he avoids discussing his relationship with his wife. Somehow that detail made me squirm far more than the extreme candour of the rest of it...In contrast, Kevin Huizenga's story, while very interesting, of course, reinforced for me how novelistic and literary his approach to comics is. This is something I've been thinking about a lot, as I struggle to find anything to like about 'literary fiction' these days and am instead increasingly drawn to those comics that operate more as visual art with a narrative element (e.g. Ron Rege, Gary Panter, CF, etc), rather than as literary fiction.
Maybe I'm just becoming illiterate?
Might post more about this later. But for now, I'm watching Huizenga's comics (and his blog) with interest, picking away at the scab that is my current allergy to contemporary fiction...
posted by Dylan Horrocks at
10:58 PM
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While I do think that Huizenga's story in Kramers Ergot 5 is very much COMICS and not just an illustrated short story, he often does stuff that's further down the spectrum towards the Ron Regé-Gary Panter camp.
Read his Or Else 2 "Gloriana" which has a mindblowing 'staring at the sun' fold-out sequence...
I went to Portland over the weekend, and looked through Powell's Books (the west coast's largest bookstore) and then crossed the street to Reading Frenzy (one of the better comix and zine stores in the world) and was overwhelmed by all the brilliant print media, and decided that my ultimate goal was maybe just to produce books of pure images; just pictures to look at. It also occurred to me that it would be a great feeling to sit in a cafe all day and fill an entire sketchbook in one sitting, drinking coffee after coffee. One day, maybe I'll try it.
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