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Becoming Horses Kindle & comiXology
Sometimes I dream about myself
and in my dream I'm someone else
But also, I am me
becoming the horse that I want to be.
Was it always like this? What if your self portrait was a collection of weird shapes? Have you ever felt like an abstract painting? Do you ever simultaneously wish and worry that the boundaries of your body will melt away and you'll become a magnificent horse? Becoming Horses is a book about squinting hard and looking from the right angle to find that everything around you sparkles—just a little—and the shapes of things are not firm but fuzzy. The You you know may shift and take form as a beautiful horse, a sunset, or something so special, so huge that you could never describe it.
Disa Wallander’s Becoming Horses is a mix of delicate cartooning and brash collage—watercolor and photography. Her colorful flowing drawings and watercolors are experimental yet accessible, as her characters mull big questions about life and art, philosophizing in a thoroughly modern voice. Bright dialogue and pleading silences create a beautiful journey that is, in fact, “the destination.”
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDrawn and Quarterly
- Publication dateFebruary 25, 2020
- File size289469 KB
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Editorial Reviews
Review
"A fantastic exploration of movement and form. Evokes equal parts Jules Feiffer and Tove Jansson."―Michael DeForge, author of Leaving Richard’s Valley.
"I wish Disa Wallander’s images could be eaten or stolen or inhabited. Because I find them so beautiful it hurts to have to settle with just looking at them. But the greatest thing about her book is that it talks about exactly that―the fact that we humans would sometimes like to inhabit works of art or become horses, and that these desires are as comforting as they are painful."―Julie Delporte, author of This Woman’s Work
"Wallander’s work in Becoming Horses strikes a lot of notes that modern cartooning seems to have eschewed... A style of cartooning that embraces the unknown and is comfortable with ambiguity. There’s a simplicity of line that is juxtaposed with emotional complexity. It’s a cartooning style that lets readers fall into themselves. It’s a style that makes Becoming Horses both familiar and powerful."―Solrad
"Wallander’s ideas about art are provocative, and her illustrations are incredibly striking in this memorable debut."―Thomas Batten, Library Journal
"This wry meditation on art and self-expression... and gently philosophical ramble is likely to appeal to creative types who periodically get stuck on the question of what creativity is for."―Publishers Weekly
"[T]he mixed media adventure that this book provides is a very serious and lively demonstration of play."
―The Quietus
About the Author
Disa Wallander is a Swedish cartoonist living and working in Stockholm. She loves to make zines and experiment with bringing collage and 3D materials into her comics. In her early twenties she read some philosophy books that suggested that nothing was real and ever since then she has made comics with the compulsion to affirm the existence of the world inside her head.
Her sporadic comic strip "Slowly dying" features an array of nameless characters that also appear in the long-form books The Nature of Nature and Becoming Horses. Her work has been featured in various anthologies such as NOW, kuš!, Drunken Boat, and Nobrow Magazine.
Product details
- ASIN : B097KJYYKW
- Publisher : Drawn and Quarterly (February 25, 2020)
- Publication date : February 25, 2020
- Language : English
- File size : 289469 KB
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- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Sticky notes : Not Enabled
- Print length : 153 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,864,370 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #486 in Drawn & Quarterly Comic & Graphic Novels
- #1,615 in Literary Graphic Novels (Kindle Store)
- #2,306 in Art Book Graphic Novels
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