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FOR OTHER COMICS RELATED WORKS VISIT MY COMICSPACE THE DOGS - an original graphic novel
THE DOGS tale tells of four Cleveland cops that wear dog disguises during brutal acts of vigilanteism. When they inadvertently cross the line with a gang of Furries, a subculture that gains pleasure from wearing fursuits, a gang war erupts leaving one from each warring faction to experience love forbidden by loyalty, one dog, the other furry. In the end, only one gang will survive. Below are a few splash images from the book.
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Site Specific Comics
Part of my research and interest in sequential narrative artworks involves reimagining the medium in new contextual ways. Pulling from a background in fine arts, I have explored the possibilitty for comic strips to exist as site specific artworks created or exhibited in and about a place. This work then can relate to both the language of sequential visual narrative and that of installation art. Beginning with ReCon(Text) #1 (seen at the bottom of this page) I began to deconstruct the pre-existing narrative of my first graphic novel to allow for interactivity with a gallery audience. My second attempt at site specific comics, "Anthony Fontana vs. The Artomatic 419" told the story of the acceptance, creation, and exhibition of the actual work for the show.
The panels were shown on five pieces of paper that told three interwoven stories. The first, an autobiographical comic about the actual
conceptualization/acceptance of the proposal and creation/exhibition
of the work. The second, a quasi-fictional work about my alter ego,
Tony, and his anguish and subsequent revenge when his proposal is not
excepted to the show. And third, a humorous and quite ridiculous tale
of a machine named "The Artomatic 419"
that has secretly drawn all the panels I claim to have drawn myself. A
singular school desk with a sheet of paper and pen sat at
the far end of the room. On the paper was written the title of
work, "Anthony Fontana vs. The Artomatic 419" and this exact body of text you have just read.
More recently, I have begun to create comics on objects found in a certain space, about that space and left in that space for its own audience. One example is the site specific work I drew on a vomit bag while flying home from a conference. The work, about getting air-sick, was left in the pouch of my seat where I'd found the bag originally.
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