Forget the words and forget Batman. Look at the hands in all three panels. Art by Jerry Robinson, via Eddie Campbell's blog. Now go look at Andrei Molotiu's 24 x 24 project.
And here's a clumsy attempt to figure things out:
UPDATE: More on Madinkbeard.
2 comments:
Love that page, Warren. It looks a lot like the cover to your Apollinaire book.
You may be interested in some of my posts involving abstraction and comics:
http://madinkbeard.com/blog/archives/tag/abstraction
Such as Trondheim's Bleu:
http://madinkbeard.com/blog/archives/bleu-by-lewis-trondheim
Thanks Derek, I'll head over to look at what you have, which I bet is pretty good. The thing that struck me about those panels is that they're part of a really mainstream Batman story - the abstract comic things are embedded in all comics, so we're not so weird after all.
And yeah, the thing I made looks like the cover th HTBE, I used the same files to re-scramble.
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