Strong Eye Contact - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937541045 ISBN 13: 9781937541040

Publisher: 2dcloud, 2013

Synopsis

Part Strip Collection, part art book, Strong Eye Contact features an aspiring comedian trying to make his way in America.

"There’s a vividness to each image that speaks to Adams’ background as a painter [while the] way that he rhymes” images back and forth speaks to his background as a musician; each strip very much feels like the verse of a song..." The Comics Journal

"This is one of the most unique, no similarities to any other working cartoonist whatsoever,’ totally out of left field books I’ve come across in a while." Austin English, author of Gulag Casual

"Like a Mr. Hulot transposed into the America of soft-serve and mini-golf, Adams’ comedian is a normal guy trying to deal with work and relaxation in a landscape of perplexing patterns." Matthew Thurber, author of Infomaniacs and 1-800-MICE

Part comic strip collection, part art book, Strong Eye Contact features an unnamed immigrant and aspiring comedian as he tries to make his way in America. Led by this quixotic, Buster Keaton-like figure through a kaleidoscope of crystalline memory fragments, our comedian tries, with limited success, to be a typical American: using consumer products, failed vacations, and fabricated family life.

Christopher Adams was born in the New York Metropolitan Area. He is between 5' 10" and 5' 11". He does not eat animals. He is an artist and musician. His latest recordings are Baby Hair, Vegetables and Xmas Boogie. His artworks include videos and comic books. His first published comic is Period, released by 2dcloud in the fall of 2012. He currently lives and works in Baltimore with his girlfriend and plants.

About this title

About the Author

Christopher Adams was born in the New York Metropolitan Area. He is between 5' 10" and 5' 11". He does not eat animals. He is an artist and musician. His latest recordings are Baby Hair, Vegetables and Xmas Boogie. His artworks include videos and comic books. His first published comic is Period, released by 2D Cloud in the fall of 2012. He currently lives and works in Baltimore with his girlfriend and plants.

Review

...Adams takes [comics] further, deconstructing linear storytelling and blurring the line between wakefulness and dreaming. --Panel Patter

There's a vividness to each image that speaks to Adams' background as a painter [while t]he way that he rhymes images back and forth speaks to his background as a musician; each strip very much feels like the verse of a song... --High-Low

This is the graphic novel as abstract expressionism ... at once disorienting and mesmerizing... --Indie Reader

About this edition

• Publisher: 2dcloud
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1937541045
• ISBN 13: 9781937541040
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 104
• Illustrator: Adams Christopher