![]() ![]() He brings the same sensibility to narrative. ![]() Whether it's the accumulation of noise in his music or the accumulation of readymade/junk in his collage and installation work. I guess in a way his entire artistic oeuvre has been driven by it. When I finally got around to reading Ninja I was floored, specifically by the narrative. The drawing itself didn't resonate with me instantly. His newest work at the time, Ninja, didn't hold the same attractive force over me. When I first accepted the fact that I was obsessed with Art Comics I rifled through whatever works I could get my hands, many by his Providence, RI contemporaries like Mat Brinkman and Ben Jones. Instead of snaking back and forth the sequencing snakes onward and onward at an explosive pace I was wrong, If 'n Oof loses none of the Chippendales' hallmark kineticism. A book of single panel pages didn't seem to make sense. Brian Chippendale is known for his dense pages, particularly his "snake format" layouts which require the reader to alternate left-to-right and right-to-left orientations per row. My first instinct was that this was maybe a cop out. It's 650 pages and made up entirely of full-page panels and double page spreads. ![]() I have to be honest, I was a little skeptical about this book before it came out due to it's format. ![]()
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