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Re: Is Dave goin mad??Sketch=a style?
Posted By: MACK! In Response To: Is Dave goin
mad??Sketch=a style? (Burdock) Hi Burdock,
I can tell from your above impersonation post that you would like me to
respond to this post. THanks for your thoughts on it. So...
: Subjective interpretations of another persons ideographic That's why it is a slow and steady introduction. But the reader always has to
meet me at least halfway. It is not a passive experience. It is a LEARNING
experience. I won't talk down to readers. I won't cater to the lowest common
denomnator. But I will give all the info you need to learn the language.
You'll notice that in the KAbuki books, the first one started with a bit of
the conventional structure, and issue by issue the reader is introduced to the
grammar of my own personal graphic language as the story weeds out less and less
of the conventional structure. Each issue equips the reader with more foundation
of the book's language and at the same time pulls the reader further into the
book's own unique realm and totally out of the conventional structure.
: take for example the first issue of Bendis/Mack's The first issue is set up to let readers know HOW they are to approach the
experience of this story. The first issue is set up to at first say "Obviously
you cannot approach this book in the same you approach most of the other Marvel
books". The first few pages tell you this. Then the issue is set up to totally
let you know that this story IS a puzzle. And that each of the characters
approaches that puzzle from their own unique kind of LANGUAGE. TImmy from his
super hero words and drawings, Ben from his world as a journalist, etc.
they certainly wouldn't hang Thanks for the kind words.
: "Is Dave Going Mad"
I prefer to think of it as a more evolved level of sanity.
: 'Mad' of course being a label placed on minority : Daves rough sketch pages and plans for paintings used to I don't have a style. I never have. If someone looks at one thing I did and
decides to call that particular piece "my style" that is between them and
reality.
...little Thanks. I'm glad you are into it.
but when the I don't have a style. I never did. I am a verb, not a noun. I do not HAVE
this noun, nor AM I that noun. I DO and BE. To me art and action are
indistinguishable. I start with a story (or idea in the case of a cover) and try
to find the best mediums and approaches to comunicate that story or idea based
on an individual basis.
: i.e..this isn't a puzzle its merely an image made to look I like the sound of that actually. That's funny. I never even considered that
people thought there was a "David Mack style" until other arists and designers
would show me something and say, "i tried to do this in your STYLE". It usually
has one or two superficial aspects of something that I did in the past with the
focus being nothing but those elements, which in themselves, when I used them,
were meant to point to the "idea" of the peice. Some of these are really
interesting to behold. It is like someone holding up a funhouse mirror of your
self. I sort of enjoy seeing them. But I don't think I could ever do them
myself. With out the IDEA, i wouldn't know where to start. But I try to
appreciate them in the context of what might be one step of someone else's art
exploration. Or when they are purposly done by other professionals to support my
involvement in something. It was surreal that my DD story arc was colored in
what Richard called "a David Mack feel". THis stuff always makes me smile
warmly.
But you'll notice that I have never said "hey this is my style". I just don't
think in those terms. The people who do label me are label me with a style,
probably have a different relationship to my art and work than I do.
Date: WED, 5/30/01, 6:56
p.m.
: language
upon the page. Its like puzzles, but most of
: the time, when we know the
tools and the signs, the
: symbol-techniques we understand...
: but can
we understand the actual art if we have never
: seen its like before...
: Daredevil...
:
To the uninitiated it is just scribbly mess...not even
: ever would they
conceive of it as a puzzle or
: something to figure out...
: it on their walls...some of it is so
unbeautiful...
: but anyway...
: expression by the
majority common and garden enforced
: taliban of existence.
: Like when
your mother goes quiet and becomes friendly
: when you enter the room with a
haddock for a tie...she
: feels pity/shock/horror instead of experiencing
the
: comedic effect you had planned.
: We call her 'no fun'.
: appear at
the back of the books so he could show you
: the thought processes that go
into creating his
: art...but now its somehow become his 'style'
: words with arrows pointing at empty spaces saying
:
'face' i.e. 'I will draw a face here when I get down
: to doing the finished
work'...
: Anyway.
: His books are like galleries of modern art that
need
: sitting/studying/interpretation...
: interpretative ideographology starts to become a
:
Style..then am I wasting my time trying to interpret
: it?
: like one of
Dave's puzzles, by Dave,
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