tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917543335925664834.post6712201723292049911..comments2023-11-22T06:38:33.507-08:00Comments on Counterforces and Other Little Jokes: now this.littlejokehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01036588703338799387noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917543335925664834.post-77037204551802107492009-03-13T18:32:00.000-07:002009-03-13T18:32:00.000-07:00Thanks for the front-handed compliment Jerry!Thanks for the front-handed compliment Jerry!ARTLANTIS Arts and Music Festivalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13079033607823184263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917543335925664834.post-18030334679572027722009-03-09T03:10:00.000-07:002009-03-09T03:10:00.000-07:00to take up but one facet to glean:i think the deal...to take up but one facet to glean:<BR/><BR/>i think the deal w/ Pettibone's success, his raw talent of course, but also for like 15-20 years he was in the ditches doin' his thing, gettin' his hands dirty, forming an alternate reality & his hand is distinctive right from the get-go, i dig his technique, condensing down to one single panel & the near-literary haze of his text, he was crankin' out Black Flag flyers & SST album covers for years, he establish'd himself well in the underground zine scene -- that happens alot it seems, artists who inhabit a particular arena for quite the while then suddenly an acceptance in "finer/higher" circles...<BR/><BR/>yet often as well, alotta artists never gain that positive critical reception & are ignored by the art historians, yet on the flipside, the work becomes highly collectible amongst withit hipsters until it builds sucha momentum that the work can't really be ignored...sometimes that happens, like w/ Victor Moscoso posters & the like.<BR/><BR/>sadly, often such figures are only left to remain as expensive dangle for rare book dealers to exploit some low printrun thing for tonsa money , <A HREF="http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=1069667334&searchurl=an%3D%2522dieter%2Broth%2522%26sortby%3D1%26x%3D41%26y%3D11" REL="nofollow">stuff like this...</A><BR/><BR/>i'm not framing any sorta cognizant point, so i'll sign off<BR/><BR/>same w/ poets tho, sometimes it's good that a poet one likes is underappreciated b/c one can find books on the cheap, but when a poet becomes critically accepted, then itsa different story, even worse when during the poets lifetime all the works were either self-pubb'd or low printrun things, try finding a copy of Ronald Johnson's ARK (complete 1996 edition) for a reasonable price -- same w/ d.a. levy's mimeograph work...<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.pictureboxinc.com/product/id/238/" REL="nofollow">Gary Panter has finally got the proper book treatment...</A><BR/><BR/>= )troylloydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14706450196335510065noreply@blogger.com