So last night on our nightly walk, I had the idea of going to the flea market and getting old books and making cut outs with them (like when people cut a whole through the pages to stash a gun in it). This morning, the flea market was out (we were gonna go with my friend and she got sick) and then it just hits me: comic books!
I just saw this flash in my head of collaged comic book pages with the POW! or BAM! bursts painted on top. I already had canvas and panels, but needed to find some old comics to destroy/create.
There's this random, shitty bookstore in the mall that we stumbled into a couple weeks ago, and I remembered that they had shit loads of comic books. So we ventured to the store and there was racks and racks and boxes and boxes to choose from. I decided i wanted the newsprint, old style comics, and that i wanted as many bright colors as possible.
Found more than enough, but chose 3 that worked best, and came home and got right to work.
Here's the comics before and my set up:
I went through them and ripped out the pages that caught my eye first, and cut out a bunch of boxes.
I then just started arranging them. I made sure i had enough large, medium, and small ones on each panel, and started gluing (mmm, rubber cement). I thought the newsprint was going to bleed a little, but luckily, rubber cement is the shit and everything stuck and stayed perfectly.
I haven't added the POW!, BAM!, etc. paint yet, i'm actually debating if im going to actually add the paint. I think they need something, but i really like the look of the collage. Maybe i'll just add little bubbles or something, that's to be determined, but for now, i'm excited about how this deconstructed book came out :)
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