Void Packer #1, 2022, Void Packer #2 coming soon!

Lale Westvind : Grip

Lale Westvind for Sleek #23: Leidenschaft, 2022

Lale Westvind

Thanks to the Seattle Art Book Fair, who invited us to create this installation to highlight our recent PoMo Pulp series of art zines for their inaugural fair! From the installation description:

Po-Mo Pulp is a series of zines published by Neoglyphic Media, which will be featured through an exhibition of conceptually-related original work, intended to expand the context for the publications. The visionary nature of the artists involved grinds against the subversive voice of the underground and begs for further exploration along the line of where low-brow or pulp media crosses over into fine art.

The exhibition will feature publications paired with original art and multimedia work on display from artists:

Amanda Vähämäki (Finland) Lale Westvind (Philadelphia, PA) Drew Miller (Albuquerque, NM) Leomi Sadler (London, England, UK) Marc Bell (Vancouver, BC, Canada) Matt Lock (Clifton, NJ) Stefan Gruber (Seattle, WA)

Copies of these zines are available from the Neoglyphic Media webstore!

Special Guest portraits by Chris Anthony Diaz, for Short Run 2022 

Claudia Chinyere Akole, Natalia Novia, Shary Flenniken, Casanova Frankenstein, Anna Haifisch, Gareth Brookes, Megan Kelso, Lale Westvind

As the year approaches its end, I wanted to call your attention to a couple zines (acquired via Domino Books) that will likely not make any best-of-the-year but are nonetheless perfectly charming ways to spend a chunk of any holiday break you might be afforded. The first is TV Grime, by Luke Geddes. Geddes is a novelist who had a book come out from Simon And Schuster a couple years ago, which I haven’t read. He is also someone, a little bit younger than me, who grew up watching a lot of television, sitcoms in partlcular, in the broadcast TV era which has now slipped away into the past. TV Grime is a pretty thick zine that uses the TV listings format to regale us with recollections, both of television as it was, and of childhood, written in a register that’s likely a good deal more direct than his novel was. I now plan to track down that book, Heart Of Junk, from the library, as this made me laugh out loud quite a bit. In particular, the page recollecting two episodes of Moesha, I photographed and texted to many people. This seems like a perfect thing to keep in your bathroom if you are the sort of (disgusting) person who keeps things to read in your bathroom.

A very charming comic I ordered from Domino is Cooking For A Quick Death by Clair Gunther, a cartoonist I know very little about. They are apparently a student at Parsons, where a number of cartoonists teach, so it’s quite possibly they’re a student of Austin English, Lale Westvind, or Matthew Thurber. This comic is in full-color, with painted color, on nice cheap paper, a very accessible format for how gorgeous this looks. Pages forgo panel borders, allowing paint to feel pretty free in how it traverses a layout, adding an additional beautiful layer to the pen-and-ink cartooning that seems very casual in its doodle-like quality, almost as if it’s modeled off of New Yorker cartoons. (The sensibility is closer to the “Utility Sketchbook” from an anonymous cartoonist Picturebox put out.) There’s a great balance between painted color and composition and lineart style gags. This also has a little bound-in black and white minicomic that follows one of the characters on a little digressive side quest, really neat stuff. I liked this a lot and hope Gunther does a reprint of the Fruit Friends minicomics that were sold out at the time I made my order from Domino.

FLESH MOVEMENTS de Lale Westvind https://www.instagram.com/lalewestvind/ Leporello de 14 volets (9,2 cm X 13,5 cm) Intérieur : impression offset 4 pantones sur papier munken lynx Couverture : Sérigraphie sur carton 1 couleur, 700 exemplaires Éditions 3 FOIS PAR JOUR https://www.3foisparjour.com/ https://www.3foisparjour.com/flesh_movement.html Prix 12€

Grip” by Lale Westvind

Lale Westvind

"After a strange incident, a young woman’s hands are never still.” Comic artist, animator, and painter Lale Westvind is known for her kinetic narratives and command of hues, recalling the likes of Jack Kirby, in series like "GRIP.” See more here.

Masterpiece Machine...

Second spin in Columbus

Lale Westvind’s short story SARKA from Kramers Ergot #10 is such strong bold imagery. It is tremendously powerful and violent and graceful. Her work always feels fresh and full of life and energy. And the knack she has with colors is so satisfying.

Grip 2 is in progress

Lale Westvind

Pages from Lale Westvind’s Grip (2018).

(via Perfectly-Acceptable.com)