From Lone Mountain
- 303pages
- 11 heures de lecture
A view of America - as seen in small towns, rural roads, and its overlooked in-between places
John Porcellino Livres
John Porcellino est un créateur acclamé de minicomics, de bandes dessinées et de romans graphiques, célèbre pour sa série phare King-Cat Comics. Son travail explore des expériences personnelles et des thèmes introspectifs tels que la santé mentale et la contemplation philosophique, apprécié pour sa concision et sa profonde résonance. Le style distinctif de Porcellino, réputé pour sa capacité à capturer le sentiment d'être vivant avec seulement quelques lignes et mots, a inspiré une génération de dessinateurs, faisant de ses bandes dessinées des chefs-d'œuvre du médium.
Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the King-Cat zine
“Unvarnished. Punk.”–The New York Times King-Cat Classix collects material from the first fifty issues of John Porcellino’s King-Cat Comics as they appeared in self-published, handmade zines throughout the 1990s. These strips span Porcellino’s dynamic evolution from saturated, punk drawings to his characteristic refined minimalism, revealing his work as nothing short of a catalyst that has inspired artists like Chris Ware in the emerging literary comics scene. In the inky drawings featuring beloved pets, awkward teenage one-night-stands, and everyday blunders, we see a nascent style steeped in truth and transparency—one that continues to ring true today. Porcellino’s mind is spread out on the page, with an uninhibited id running wildly about dreams and sexual fantasies, not unlike the gritty, stabbing pen strokes of Julie Doucet. He sketches fragmented moments and glimpses of interaction that seem to reflect the very manner in which we process memory: we are made up of a stream of consciousness, captured in fleeting mental images, and Porcellino externalizes that messy internal reality. Follow along the path of Porcellino’s dynamic evolution and relish in the inspirational power of this groundbreaking collection.
A melancholic memoir of saying goodbye to the familiar. Brimming with empathy and a charming, self-aware wit, Perfect Example is King-Cat zinester John Porcellino s coming-of-age memoir about the momentous and eternal year between the end of high school and the start of college.