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Post by wigshop on Sept 11, 2021 2:48:54 GMT
(sidenote - did anyone else order CF's recent receipt-roll comics and actually receive them yet?)
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Post by BubblesZine on Sept 11, 2021 4:02:36 GMT
I don't think anyone has gotten them yet
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Post by AssholeEyes on Sept 11, 2021 4:12:43 GMT
I haven’t received them yet. When the last ones came out I had to send him a message and remind him to send them. He was very cool about it but I’d be too embarrassed to do that twice. So I just assumed I’d been forgotten and wrote it off.
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Post by wigshop on Sept 11, 2021 4:17:13 GMT
I don't think anyone has gotten them yet ok cool, good to know
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Post by dominocorp on Sept 11, 2021 4:46:39 GMT
The only time I actually met him was at an art show of his, I went up to shake his hand and congratulate him. I started off by saying 'hey, uhhh I think we met that time you were at our house scanning pages for your book, but uuhhhh anyway...' but as I was saying this (I'd had a few drinks) I knocked over one of his art pieces. Then, as I was apologizing, I knocked another one over. He was pretty nice about it, he said 'ok, get this guy out of here' and laughed.
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Post by maxmorris on Sept 11, 2021 6:38:26 GMT
The only time I actually met him was at an art show of his, I went up to shake his hand and congratulate him. I started off by saying 'hey, uhhh I think we met that time you were at our house scanning pages for your book, but uuhhhh anyway...' but as I was saying this (I'd had a few drinks) I knocked over one of his art pieces. Then, as I was apologizing, I knocked another one over. He was pretty nice about it, he said 'ok, get this guy out of here' and laughed. This is the content that I joined this forum for thanks
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Post by bhanu on Sept 11, 2021 8:04:13 GMT
I think with any tough work, one has to first find a way in. And manytimes the way in isn't on teh first page, or even the plot itself. Plot is used by most of us as a way to dissect and enter work and worlds. But Plot can also just be a thread to hang ideas on, where plot might not be of a lot of meaning.
Frankly I have only read one comic by CF, and It might be one of the more straightforward ones. But Here, there are a few things to see. The text sewer written on the manhole cover and the trail of by-passers infront. Why would a sewer be written like that unless to point to the metatextual nature of the following pages, like how one would write sewer on a script/roughs, and it's stuck somewhere midway between a script and a final work. The same with trail of bypassers, it's not a mark of registration issue, or maybe it is, but the figures are also filled with different colors and can be seen as two iterations of a background element, like a leftover artifact etc. Later on in the comic there are parts where color fills have aliasing/feathering problems. So one could kind of say, that here the draft and the work are link to the nature of artifact of the artwork, the leftovers from one stage to another, and how the final work is a matter of luck and can perhaps be considered a chimera of many things, a modern(post-structural?) post industrial miracle. I mean, that's one way to read it (however badly stitched together). Someone who perhaps has a hang of CF's own influences will read it in other ways, someone who knows comic history thoroughly will come at it differently. Plus, I like it because it looks cool and great is as valid a criteria as any.
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Post by BubblesZine on Sept 11, 2021 12:01:06 GMT
Also "I'm on my way to rewrite the script now", the falls into the sewer. That's the kind of odd shaped humor I love CF for and why I loved William Softkey so much.
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Post by christopherdale on Sept 11, 2021 12:02:45 GMT
(sidenote - did anyone else order CF's recent receipt-roll comics and actually receive them yet?) I got the eye check scroll roughly a month ago…
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Post by BubblesZine on Sept 11, 2021 12:14:09 GMT
(sidenote - did anyone else order CF's recent receipt-roll comics and actually receive them yet?) I got the eye check scroll roughly a month ago… Whaa, no one I know who ordered one has gotten it yet. But damn I guess he got a few mailed out! I wonder if he had trouble printing them all haha. How was it? Did ya dig it?
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Post by christopherdale on Sept 11, 2021 13:06:24 GMT
I got the eye check scroll roughly a month ago… Whaa, no one I know who ordered one has gotten it yet. But damn I guess he got a few mailed out! I wonder if he had trouble printing them all haha. How was it? Did ya dig it? Man, it is impossible to start unscrolling and not get excited about how perfect the medium is for comics haha. Eye check is cool! Very few words or sequential movements. It has a reflective, sketchbook-y quality. Starts off high in the sky, airplanes and whatnot, then seems to zoom in on flaura/fauna/human figures in a park, then zooms in again to faces. After that there’s some more mystical type figures, and some forklift/machinery imagery, and it ends with a great image of a figure digging a grave. (The title, Eye Check, made me think of perspective moving in reverse. Like you start in the sky, zoom in until you’re concentrating on individuals. As if the scroll is itself an “eye exam” to remind you to zoom in/see people as individuals/look inside yourself).
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Post by zialex on Sept 11, 2021 19:52:32 GMT
Always love hearing about other alternative artists/cartoonists. Never heard of this guy until now. Let's see. I suppose my take on it would be this. It seems that there isn't much about his work I can get from other than what it is. I'm often reminded of Robert Crumb and what he said in a recent interview. About how the medium of comics was considered to be a "low-grade medium." The stories told weren't these fantastic, highly in-depth stories, with layers upon layers of meaning that one can seize at and grasp. No, they were digestible nuggets, often quick and not that deep. Yes, there may have been underlying themes, sure, things you can glean from if you thought really hard about them. Likely because the artists making them were perhaps placing these messages as subconscious interwoven subtext. But I wouldn't think of that as an overall intentional thing. Most of the time, a lot of those guys were trying to tell stories. An so to relate that to this guy. It just seems like the same thing. From far away, it just seems like he's reveling in the creativity of the comics he's making. He's just enjoying it, making them, not trying to take them too seriously, not trying too hard to make a point either. Naw, just making comics. Wherever it leads. Is it always going to make sense? No... Is there always going to be a point to them? Well, maybe, but then again, likely not. A lot of them just are what they are. Shameless comic making.
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Post by kevinfong on Sept 12, 2021 2:33:26 GMT
Whaa, no one I know who ordered one has gotten it yet. But damn I guess he got a few mailed out! I wonder if he had trouble printing them all haha. How was it? Did ya dig it? Man, it is impossible to start unscrolling and not get excited about how perfect the medium is for comics haha. Eye check is cool! Very few words or sequential movements. It has a reflective, sketchbook-y quality. Starts off high in the sky, airplanes and whatnot, then seems to zoom in on flaura/fauna/human figures in a park, then zooms in again to faces. After that there’s some more mystical type figures, and some forklift/machinery imagery, and it ends with a great image of a figure digging a grave. (The title, Eye Check, made me think of perspective moving in reverse. Like you start in the sky, zoom in until you’re concentrating on individuals. As if the scroll is itself an “eye exam” to remind you to zoom in/see people as individuals/look inside yourself). Appreciate your thoughts and insight! It's like hearing a dispatch from an alternate reality. Like many, I am also waiting for mine to arrive 😅. I sent an email last week to the address listed in PayPal but received a notification saying there's no such recipient, furthering the mystique
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Post by k0rnbr34d on Sept 14, 2021 11:04:21 GMT
Can't speak for everyone, but for me the appeal of his comics is the freedom he works with. Makes sense given the Henry Darger influence, an artist who had no reason to follow any rules. I think this is also the reason he is so often immitated. Powr Mastrs was an eye opener for me and I can read the two volumes I have endlessly, but I hated Pierrot Alterations and felt ripped off when I bought it; however, the CF pieces I've read in Kramer's have also been favorites. It's not about figuring anything out, but enjoying the ride, imo. Some rides aren't as fun as others.
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Post by maxmorris on Sept 14, 2021 22:14:09 GMT
I've heard CF is somewhat infamous for taking forever to ship things out, I wouldn't stress to hard. I too hate mailing anything ever.
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