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Post by BubblesZine on Nov 21, 2023 1:25:19 GMT
That Frank Johnson books looks like it could be either amazing or a mere unreadable artifact of an outsider artist. I hope it is the former. The idea of lost comics newly discovered is very interesting to me. I flipped through it briefly at short run when I went to the offices, it looks interesting. I definitely will be checking it out. The format reminds me of The Dolls Weekly and the Crawlee Things by Rory Hayes, which I think is such an amazing book. I guess I'm a sucker for raw doodles on paper.
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Post by wigshop on Nov 21, 2023 4:52:09 GMT
Totally nitpicky but I saw some pages of the Frank Johnson on Fantagraphics's instagram and was a little bummed to see how they're doing the margins -- each spread looks to me like they just cracked the original books open onto a big white scanner bed. The faux-wear cover design made me think they were going to do some cool full-bleed facsimile thing.
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Post by pentimento on Nov 21, 2023 17:19:35 GMT
These sort of facsimile volumes are always tricky from a technical standpoint - was it intended to be printed as a book? Did the artist utilize ink or just pencil? Was he, like, mentally ill? Haha, that sort of thing... Many of the Henry Darger volumes had varied solutions to this problem, though his work looks better as single images, to me, than what I've seen from this Frank Johnson thing, where it looks like actual narrative comics with panel-to-panel format. The real question is: Is the content worth it as a story or will it have to suffice as a historical curiosity? We shall see. The project brings to mind this volume: www.tcj.com/comics-brut-al/
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