Tag: Art
Still Life with Orange Peel — Richard Diebenkorn
Daydream — Peter Ferguson
Solitary Figure in a Theater — Edward Hopper
The Beginning of Magick II — Fredrik Söderberg
Warning! — Katsuhiro Otomo
Shojo Parakeet and Plum — Totoya Hokkei
The Beginning of Time — Gérard Willemenot
Blanket — Boris Kustodiev
The honest critic (Ezra Pound)
From ABC of Reading.
Fried Egg — Tjalf Sparnaay
Temptation of St Anthony — Bernardo Parentino
The End of Summer — Bo Bartlett
Nankai Plum — Totoya Hokkei
Mrs. Abrams in Paris — Lucien Abrams
Gravure, Uno — Wilfredo Lam
The Bus, Paul Kirchner’s marvelous and surreal comic strip trip
For the past year, I’ve run a strip from Paul Kirchner’s cult classic The Bus each Sunday. The strips come from an album posted at Imgur full of high quality scans. I posted the last scan last week.
The Bus originally ran in Heavy Metal from 1979-1985; Kirchner’s done a few over 40 new strips over the past few years, as he notes in a recent memoir-piece at The Boston Globe. The new strips will be collected in The Bus 2 from Editions Tanibis. Editions Tanibis also has collected the original run of The Bus in an edition that’s more complete than the Imgur page.
I’ve enjoyed posting the strips tremendously. I first saw a few strips at an image forum I frequent, and quickly found the Imgur album. Posting one each Sunday was my way of, well, not bingeing on them.
The Bus is a profound strange wonderful trip. Kirchner’s visions often evoke Escher’s paradoxes, and the best of his strips make us attend closely to what we’d otherwise dismiss. The Bus is subtle and sly, occasionally (very occasionally) dark, but also, I would argue, sensitive—there’s something deeply endearing about the strip’s central human protagonist, an often passive (even hapless) passenger, a kind of late-20th century Everyman. Continue reading “The Bus, Paul Kirchner’s marvelous and surreal comic strip trip”
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