Talking Bread Heads
Talking Bread Heads © Craig Burston
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Gleaming the details of life passing by.
The premise: a glyph character (the author) gets on a train and as the journey progresses we listen in on passing conversations. The dialogue seems truthful enough, but I wonder how it is sampled? Has Craig got an incredible memory for transient conversations, or a little recording device that steals voices from the air?
The artwork is gestural almost scribbled in its cartooning, but at times also highly polished and manipulated - I suspect the use of a computer rather than a photocopier. The images are repeated and reused (remixed) and although this sounds like it should be visually boring, Craig manages to avoid tedium by imaginative use of cropping and focus; lines become more abstract.
I am subject to first impressions as anyone and I have to concede I found myself more interested in this minicomic than I thought my initial inspection suggested - the look and feel of it left me unimpressed. Then I actually read and digested it and I happily stand corrected. So then - what is the base appeal that triggers the intellectual interest? Perhaps it's the need to feel included in life, or maybe perhaps the illicit delight of eavesdropping.
mooncat
| Talking Bread Heads 44 A6 pages | Recieved at ZUM! HQ: 4iv03 |
£2 +P+P | Craig Burston, Skip-Rat designs, 79b Charlton Rd, London, SE3 8TA |