Paranoid Apartment
Available for purchase in Toronto at the Beguiling
On its way to Portland to be sold at Floating World
Online from Secret Prison
Reblogged from The Small Press Expo
Lala, Paranoid Apartment, 2013
I love it when artists step outside of their comfort zones and try something challenging. With this new comic from Lala, she accomplishes this by forcing herself to work with more of a structure on the page. By placing the restriction of a grid on her comic for the first time, Lala is more creative with less freedom and she excels at this. The textures and distortions compliment the ordered grid and there are often multiple, interesting visual ideas within one panel.
The story follows a woman who is crippled by anxiety, wondering what will kill her first–the ceiling caving in over her bed, the kitchen knife, the slippery bathroom floor? Her anxiety seems to manifest itself into a ghost which haunts her own apartment and the new subletter. Anxiety is a cruel beast that can feel independent from yourself–like a specter following you and taking advantage of your weakest moments. Even moments free from debilitating fear carry the possibility of a visit. This sense of foreboding is clearly displayed throughout the piece.
I’ve been following Lala’s work now for practically a decade and this feels like (another) huge step forward.
You can purchase here, from Sacred Prism.
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Anthony! thank you so much for this
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Comic making is often thought of as a cartoonist working alone, slaving over pages for hours on end with no connection to the outside world for months at a time while they work on a personal comic book masterpiece. WHO SAID CARTOONING HAS TO BE SUCH A SOLITARY MEDIUM??I, Pat Aulisio, as organizer of the philly alt comic con for 3 years (and philly santoro con for 1) and editor of numerous anthologies (including math fiction 3D, rub the blood, secret prison 666, marvel comics presents 6), along with Box Brown, publisher of over a dozen and counting cartoonists under Retrofit Comics, and Josh Bayer, editor of over 100 artists for Suspect Device and organizer of the multiple readings that go along with it, are hear to tell you COMIC BOOKS ARE FOR FRIENDS.We will be giving a talk to help you cultivate and maintain a thriving comic book scene amongst your friends, tips on organizing comic gatherings, editing books, working with other cartoonists to help them reach their full potential and most of all HAVING FUN WHILE MAKING COMICS.Along the way we will show you numerous drawing games and practices that lead to fully realized comic books, talk about different formats and sizes to publish both in print and on the web, and of course we will be there to make friends with everyone who joins and draw with you.PAY WHAT YOU WANT to come to SAW, make new and exciting comics, share ideas, and make new friends!
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