The Reading Gaze : "My Comics" by Domingos Isabelinho :::: last 3 copies!!!

volume +08 of Thiscovery CCCChannel collection published by Chili Com Carne and Thisco in June 2022

156p. 16,5x23cm black & white, color cover, limited to 150 copies

These essays were originally published, in a slightly different form, in the magazines Satélite Internacional (Oporto, 2005) and L’indispensable (Nîmes, 2011), Indy Magazine online site (USA, 2004) and on the blogs The Crib Sheet (Portugal, 2008-10, 2015) and The Hooded Utilitarian (USA, 2010-11, 2013).

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The index of the book includes the following themes: 

WHAT IS A COMICS FAKE, THE EXPANDED FIELD OF COMICS AND OTHER PET PEEVES, THE ORIGIN’S MYTH, CARICATURE, THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT, UT PICTURA POESIS, SOME CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT THE GRAPHIC NOVEL, BRUNO LECIGNE ON THE MIXING UP OF THE LANGUAGES, COMICS THEORY AND CRITICISM, ANA HATHERLY, JACQUES CALLOT, THE CANTICLES OF SAINT MARY, FRANS MASEREEL, KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI, OTTO DIX, PABLO PICASSO, MARTIN VAUGHN-JAMES, ALAN DUNN, ROBERTO ALTMANN  and FRANCIS BACON. 

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“It was February 24, 2004, 08:27 AM, on the Comics Journal Messboard.” This is the first phrase of my blog, The Crib Sheet. What happened at that particular day and particular hour was that I, fed up with the accusation of not liking comics, decided to write a list of my favorite ones. With that list my answer was: I like comics, I just don’t like the same comics you like. This is the genesis and explanation of this book’s subtitle, “My Comics.” On the other hand, if you insist that I don’t like comics because what’s in this book are not precisely cartoonists, don’t worry, I like them too, they’re just not here yet because I divided the comics corpus in two: The Extended Field and The Restrict Field. This book is, then, an anti-essentialist stance, a cry of freedom from India Ink on board, if you like... 

Domingos Isabelinho 

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Domingos Isabelinho was born in Lisbon in 1960.  He contributed to the magazines Nemo, Quadrado, Satélite Internacional, Splaft!, various catalogs of the Porto, Lisbon, Amadora comics conventions (Portugal), The Comics Journal, The International Journal of Comic Art (U.S.A.), L’indispensable (France), European Comic Art (UK). He also wrote the preface to one of the latest editions of Guido Buzzelli’s book I Labirinti (Italy). He co-curated a Buzzelli exhibition in Lisbon and an exhibition of his original art collection in the Beja Comics Convention (Portugal).  He wrote twenty three entries in the book 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die (UK). In 2012 He was invited to the seminar Aesthetics of Contemporary Comics in Oslo (Norway).

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You can buy HERE - available also at Tinta nos Nervos, Kingpin Books, Alquimia, Linha de Sombra, Snob and ZDB - all in Lisbon - and in Matéria Prima (Porto), Quimby's (Chicago), Just Indie Comics (Italy), Senhora Presidenta (Porto) and Le Mont en L'Air (Paris).

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Feedback:

Domingos Isabelinho has been called by Jan Baetens "the most virulent comics critic" and there's a truth to it. This book collects essays that draw a much-needed anti-canon. As he calls it, an Expanded Field of Comics takes our heads out of our asses in typical assumptions. A+! 

Pedro Moura

(...) Isabelinho delves into the theory and practice of sequential art, with a not-so-subtextual advocacy for a richer self-education in wider spheres of art. It’s not an unwelcome cry—one of the most prominent results of the corporate subsumption of culture is a self-referential, which is to say self-absorbed, pool of inspiration, and Isabelinho tries, in his own way, to fight that; he is combative, sometimes downright hostile, but his heated passion comes with an articulatory edge: he will always clarify and back up his arguments, leaving the reader no choice but to thoroughly understand the point he’s making (...). He knows why a thing works or why it doesn’t, (...) he will tell you exactly why.

Solrad

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Historial:

Lançado no dia 15 de Outubro 2022, no Museu Bordalo Pinheiro com participação do autor, Marcos Farrajota e Pedro Moura.