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How horrible at this are we? It's DECEMBER ferchrissakes.
One very nice person we met at SPX was J.P. Coovert, a member of One Percent Press, which is a great little minicomics consortium after our own hearts.
Coovert tossed us a nice little collection of books, including a split mini he did with Hope Larson:
It's an interesting split; both stories have to do with automobile-related misadventures, and both stories have a sort of beautiful twingey melancholy to them. Coovert's linework in this one is loose and simple, and seems almost rushed at times, but that creates a feeling of urgency that compliments the story well.
He also gave us "Unattached", which is bound cleverly in a dissassembled envelope, a feat that impressed me, the paper whore that I am.
Unattached's linework is tighter, smoother, very Porcellinoish.
The story itself is less of a story and more of a haiku-like meditation, brief, and while it's a little abstract, it's still a very nice piece.
Lastly, we got his "The Other Side", a short story about two young prepubescent boys roaming a subdivision and getting up to some pretty innocuous hijinks.
Coovert makes some very pretty books. The artwork has a fluid sort of minimalism to it that matches the simple, quiet nature of the stories he chooses to tell. They're not complicated or elaborate, visually or substantially, and they end up feeling like little poems; stories told in brief, sometimes almost staccato vignettes, where whatever's happening in the panel speaks volumes about the characters and the situation. Coovert's work is a very subtle treasure that can easily sneak under your radar, but if you spend a little time with his books - all of which can be purchased at One Percent Press - you won't regret it.
One very nice person we met at SPX was J.P. Coovert, a member of One Percent Press, which is a great little minicomics consortium after our own hearts.
Coovert tossed us a nice little collection of books, including a split mini he did with Hope Larson:
It's an interesting split; both stories have to do with automobile-related misadventures, and both stories have a sort of beautiful twingey melancholy to them. Coovert's linework in this one is loose and simple, and seems almost rushed at times, but that creates a feeling of urgency that compliments the story well.
He also gave us "Unattached", which is bound cleverly in a dissassembled envelope, a feat that impressed me, the paper whore that I am.
Unattached's linework is tighter, smoother, very Porcellinoish.
The story itself is less of a story and more of a haiku-like meditation, brief, and while it's a little abstract, it's still a very nice piece.
Lastly, we got his "The Other Side", a short story about two young prepubescent boys roaming a subdivision and getting up to some pretty innocuous hijinks.
Coovert makes some very pretty books. The artwork has a fluid sort of minimalism to it that matches the simple, quiet nature of the stories he chooses to tell. They're not complicated or elaborate, visually or substantially, and they end up feeling like little poems; stories told in brief, sometimes almost staccato vignettes, where whatever's happening in the panel speaks volumes about the characters and the situation. Coovert's work is a very subtle treasure that can easily sneak under your radar, but if you spend a little time with his books - all of which can be purchased at One Percent Press - you won't regret it.
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