"As it were" is a collection of seventeen non-verbal compositions that visually explore the story as a form. Considering literary forms, one sees that a poem resides in a shape that is particular to it and inviolable. A novel, however, exists in many pages that all look alike. A story occupies a limited enclosure with a consistent though malleable shape. Each story in this collection uses a different system of generators, each uses its own language. Like drawing, writing is visual and gestural, but with different constraints. Without the force of semantic content holding one's attention in a specific mode to the page, the differences between drawing and writing begin to soften and the act of looking and the act of reading begin to merge.

As It Were: 17 asemic stories

Comics & Graphic Novels

Appel, Rosaire

Graphic Novels

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Abstract drawings based on a series of unnamed events.

Where In: a series of events

Arts & Photography

The eyes look, and the eyes read. I suggest they can also listen - an act different from both looking and reading. To explore this possibility, I have gathered together these pages of non-linguistic, non-pictorial drawings.

Seesongs, a workbook

Other Media

UNTRANSLATED - a catalog

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

This is unlike a typical graphic novel or illustrated book, which relies on recognisable pictures and legible text. A Kick In The Eye is a multiple-authored graphic novel containing only abstract images and illegible asemic writing.

A kick In The Eye: A Collaborative Graphic Novel

Shipley, Gary J.

Giovenale, Marco

Gaze, Tim

Skinner, Christopher

Burhouse, Tony

Hopkins, Gareth A

Kaikkonen, Satu

Tarczynski, Lin

Uzal, Sergio

frames per second / frames made from video fly-overs of large drawings / sequences of repetitions with incremental changes, edited / musical structures / sound patterns / stutter poems / comics

fps: still moves

Disturbance: a break of expectations. This is a book of drawings and text : abstract comics and asemic writing.

Manual of Disturbances

ZINC, ZANC and ZUNC are three characters in an abstract comic - or else they are a single character conjugated according to voice, mood, tense, number and person¿. Their language is asemic but their actions, emotions and expressions are all too human. They move through their pages quickly, waking the alert reader to the archetypical plights of their existence.

Zinc Zanc Zunc: an asemic conjugation

How To Create Comics & Manga

Post-Asemic Press

Voices Pending

Independently published

ZONE C

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