Rosaire Appel

New issue of the international comics anthology CBA: Uncomics – an artistic field where contemporary art and comics inform each other. Where the absence of sequence encourages the reader to investigate the picture plane(s) in any direction and order, becoming an active co-creator in the process. A space outside the tedious limitations of story, where images both abstract and suggestive interact. Comics, at last, as a visual art form.§

This book transforms email scams about money into poetry about human desire by way of erasure. Both the original and the transformation are presented on facing pages. These emails were accumulating in my junk mail box until I transferred them to my raw materials folder which I open in idle moments. These missives, these attempts to get something from someone for nothing and the language they use - is it intentional, or is it the result of a translation algorithm? Do these promises of money ever hook anyone? Erasure brings out another layer, no less desperate. The search for connection continues -- for better or worse.

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.

What can be said with two-letter words? DO IT GO TO IT BE This visual book plays with poetry, typography and illustration all in relation to two letter words.