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altcomics · 1 year

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thepapersnail · 1 month

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Christopher Forgues, untitled, 2012, gouache and watercolor on paper

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shornsilk · 10 months

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CF - Aerosol (Fantasy Empire, 2013)

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blessedrestlessness · 2 years

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A chapter concerning the color orange from the/my book Christopher Forgues and the Poetry of Comix by James D Bowman 3

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elegieenbleu · 5 years

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CHRISTOPHER “CF” FORGUES /

Pierrot alterations (2019)

“The character of Pierrot, the archetypal “sad clown” of artistic tradition, has served as a beacon of inspiration for vanguard figures from Picasso to Kenneth Anger to David Bowie. In the new 56-page zine Pierrot Alterations, the acclaimed underground artist CF approaches this mythic figure through an enigmatic haze of bizarre characters, dreamlike action and stunning visuals. Presented in vivid color with wit and inventiveness, Pierrot Alterations continues CF’s bold experiments with graphic storytelling and with the print medium at large.”

http://anthology.net/books-old/

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salchicharandom · 7 years

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#Christopher “CF” Forgues #Powr Mastrs 2 #comic #underground

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dynamobooks · 6 years

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C. F.: Powr Mastrs, Volume 2 (2008)

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sallyingraham · 7 years

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CF party at my comics shop!

POWR MASTRS Vol. 1 - 2007 PictureBox

CF, one of the masters of the Providence, RI, comics scene, has always been "very much engaged in challenging the standard representations of time and space in contemporary comics," according to Bill Boichel. He continues: "What people are doing, where they are going, how they are making their way and when they are going to get together all figure prominently in Powr Mastrs, if in an oblique way. There is a real organic quality to the work here, a quality which is enhanced by the work being rendered wholly in pencil with no attempts made to add any effects of any sort." 120 pages; embossed flexi-cover. Give it a look HERE.

CORE OF COLIGULA - Episodes 1-4

Published by PictureBox - 8-page pamphlet with cardstock covers - collects four 2-page comics drawn in 2007 & 2008. Check it out HERE.

Sediment - PictureBox, 2011

Individually numbered (446) out of an edition of 1,000 - initialed by the author. "Sediment showcases the pure form of CF’s vision, set free from narrative content. A multi-media compilation of work done for gallery exhibitions, commercial illustrations, sketchbook pages, and miscellany, it manages to give an impressively well-rounded overview of the various facets of its artist’s creativity, the things that make CF both unique and valuable. This isn’t a comic as such — except for the reprint of a short Bookforum strip that closes things out, the imagery collected here is not sequential — but it also can’t quite be called an art book, given its pocket size and total lack of explanatory text. The most accurate description for it is simply “a book,” one consisting entirely of pictures. A space that belongs entirely to the images, free of even character and plot’s distractions, where the audience can come to see just how much CF’s hands are able to do to their eyes." from Matt Seneca's review for tcj.com Check out the book HERE.

Sales from my comics shop go toward helping me keep making comics - and currently toward getting a new tire for my car so that I can keep getting to the comics classes for kids that I teach...... MORE COOL COMICS HERE! Thanks for looking.

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ink-logging · 5 years

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Pierrot Alterations, CF: And then, suddenly - a new book from Christopher Forgues, one of the madly-loved art comics figures of the 21st century, who had seemed to turn away from even small-press book publishing of late. This 52-page project, however — lavish with sawed-off corners and exposed spine and all-color innards — comes from Anthology Editions, an imprint of the Brooklyn record label Mexican Summer. The first batch sold quickly, but there should be more in a few weeks.

How you get there from here is the question posed to me by this stack of drawings. The first 25 or so pages are devoted to a quiet two-panel-per-page narrative in which a small crew of clowns erect a tiny city; they work, drink, fight, and occasionally ride each other like erotic horses, though pantaloons-clad sourface Regulus has manifested psychic abilities that the rest of the crew indulge as another frivolous distraction from their dialectical labors. Then, suddenly, a miraculous transformation occurs, in which a series of die-cut gaps in the book itself guide us into a series of crowded, denuded, domestic purple drawings, interspersed with and ultimatly supplanted by incomprehensible faux-photo ID images and official-looking documents and dystopian pencil images drawn atop calendar pages redolent with decomposing architecture and tiny faces in tiny circles.

What does it all mean? Nothing; it’s just a bunch of sketchbook pages dropped in at random to plump up a short comic in a faintly suggestive manner so as to tickle the arrogance of flatulent critics-cum-marketers and fool hapless culture consumers into paying twenty dollars for a tiny book and you should never, never trust naughty artists and/or Brooklyn hipsters again!

-Harlequin

Among the first of the ‘calendar’ pages is a schematic for Alterations on the Pierrot form, in the Pierrot Quality Amphitheater, where characters line up in discreet sections of a walled stage like dates stuck in boxes, peering at each other. “[P]oetry means very little if taken in its practical sense,” CF muses in a brief text coda. The Pierrot of the newer traditions, the longing Pierrot, seeks an impossible sense of art amidst the building of tradition: Regulus, the Leo, levitating and transforming, his flight from the stagebound story of one half of the book revealing a future of increasingly varied activities, collapsing into categorization and suppression. It is the ember of desire, the Idea, “poesis” encumbered, gradually, by practice and consideration and concretization and more, more, more, until the city of this art is a prison. Art as a process of life vs. the life of art as process. The back cover of the book depicts a woman in modern dress smashing a rock through a window, and clowns then scrambling to build a brick wall. What do you do when even dancers seal you in? Vanish?

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thepapersnail · 1 month

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