#xia gordon

This mostly abstract comic done in red and blue is in many respects a creative shot across the bow by a talented young cartoonist. The sense of the comic capturing something utterly timeless and yet yoked to a specific time and specific place gives the story a sense of a benign push and pull, or rather a hermeneutic understanding of how it’s both things at once, and how it can be neither thing without both aspects working together. It’s both timeless and specific, this feeling it evokes of being at a beach, watching a night sky, being part of a group that’s exchanging an ineffable energy among its members. There’s a series of pages of looping lines in the middle of the comic which alternate between looking like a woman’s hair and the wind whipping through that hair, until it resolves into a figure walking amidst a rainstorm on the beach. Gordon has incredible chops and a way of looking at the universe that reminds me a little of Aidan Koch, only there’s a remarkable warmth and sense of engagement that unites her images that might otherwise seem cold, disconnected and emotionless.  The title of the comic itself brings to mind something that’s going to be used to spark a life-giving fire, as though the creation of this comic itself being fuel for future works. 

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Artists
Margot Ferrick
Laura Lannes
Xia Gordon
Fifi Martinez

Debuts
By Monday I’ll be Floating in the Hudson with the Other Garbage by Laura Lannes
It Felt Like Nothing by Fifi Martinez 
Kindling by Xia Gordon
A Tunnel To Another Place by Apolo Cacho
2001 by Blaise Larmee
Architecture of an Atom by Juliacks
Yours by Margot Ferrick
100 by Nou

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