From Lone Mountain
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A view of America - as seen in small towns, rural roads, and its overlooked in-between places
John Porcellino Knihy
John Porcellino je uznávaným tvůrcem minikomiksů, komiksů a grafických románů, který se proslavil svou oceňovanou sérií King-Cat Comics. Jeho díla, která čerpají z osobních zážitků a introspektivních témat, jako jsou duševní zdraví a filozofické úvahy, jsou ceněna pro svou stručnost a hlubokou rezonanci. Porcellinův jedinečný styl, charakterizovaný schopností zachytit podstatu života pouhými několika slovy a liniemi, inspiroval celou generaci tvůrců a jeho komiksy jsou považovány za mistrovská díla v oboru.
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.