The Complete C Comics - Joe Brainard, Bill Kartalopoulos - diskuze

In the mid-1960s, legendary artist and writer Joe Brainard (I Remember) teamed with poets such as John Ashbery, Frank OÂ’Hara, Barbara Guest, Ron Padgett, Kenneth Koch, Ted Berrigan, and many more for these pioneering collaborative comic strips—unavailable for decades and collected here for the first time.“PEOPLE OF THE WORLD… RELAX!”In the creative hotbed of 1960s New York, Joe Brainard was a whirlwind. He was a maker of paintings, assemblages, collages, book covers, poetry reading fliers, and more. But some of his most exciting work was done with his friends. In 1964, the twenty-two year old Brainard turned his talents to rewiring the lowly comic book form into something new and surprising. He invited his friends Frank O''Hara, Ted Berrigan, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Peter Schjeldahl, Anne Waldman, Ron Padgett, and others—all of them New York School poets—to collaborate with him on comics that they would write and he would draw.The results were unlike any comics seen before. Previously available only on the rare-book market (at very high prices) but available here under one cover for the first time, the two issues of C Comics still feel as fresh as when the first page rolled off the mimeograph machine over sixty years ago. BrainardÂ’s energetic line and joyful humor charge across every page, illustrating Frank OÂ’Hara''s recasting of a cowboy as a mash note–writing lover, Ron PadgettÂ’s experiments with traditional cart
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