Filmmaker, journalist, activist, and Marvel Comics veteran Annie Nocenti has curated a collection of monsters over at HiLobrow's "4CP Friday." Here's one more for your monster book, Annie.
Hold the paper up to the light
(some rays pass right through)
Expose yourself out there for a minute
(some rays pass right through)
Take a little rest when the rays pass through
Take a little time off when the rays pass through
I'm barely moving
I study motion
Everything seems to be up in the air at this time
(Air - it can break your heart)
It's hard to imagine that nothing at all
could be so exciting, could be this much fun
I'm charged up. It's pretty intense.
I'm charged up. Electricity.
Don't think I can fit it on the paper
Don't think I can get it on the paper
But it was never, it was never written down
Still might be a chance that it might work out
If you hold on to that paper
"All I see is little dots."
(Words by David Byrne, from the Talking Heads' album "Fear of Music.")
Sources: "From Beyond the Unknown" #8 (cover), "Kamandi" #1, and "Where Creatures Roam" #5.
The Guardian newspaper included 4CP in its Saturday culture supplement, "The Guide," which had a superhero theme the week of July 23-29. It's only the second time I'm aware of that any of the blog's images have been professionally published, and they look quite good on matte newsprint!
Art by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers.
For her contribution to HiLobrow's "4CP Friday" series, author Lynn Peril has aligned portraits from the 4CP gallery with The Seven Deadly Sins. As always, very interesting to see the HiLobrow curators turn these floating images into signifiers of something in particular.
To my delight, a number of artists have appropriated images from the 4CP blog and made something new from them.
Tessa Wyatt has overlaid manipulated textures from 4CP images onto her photography.
Andrew Wales, who previously made a large watercolor of a 4CP image, has now done the same image as a linocut print.
This is the 311th post on the 4CP blog, which I realize makes for a rather daunting mountain of dots and associated musings. The robots at Google Analytics tell me that there are a few people every week, somewhere in the world, who look at every single image, but for saner souls, here are some navigational options:
If you're wondering what I think about this project, there's an illustrated manifesto, In Defense of Dots - The Lost Art of Comic Books, as well as a 4CP FAQ, which compiles my answers to email inquiries.
I attempt to post images in sequences that are as varied as the gallery's premise allows, so any stretch of the blog is likely to be representative. However, if you have an interest in a particular kind of content or composition, you'll find a limited number of categorical tags at the bottom of the page with which to filter images (e.g., Superheroes, Portraits, Abstract, Places). If you're a Jack Kirby fan, you might enjoy the anomalous series Cosmic Debris - Kirby in the Seventies. I've compiled some of my favorite images here, which vary from the choices of others, over here.
