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C. F.

aka Chris Forgues


Title Creator Publisher Series Price
The Ganzfeld #4 C. F., Paper Rad, David Sandlin, Frank Santoro and more ... PictureBox The Ganzfeld $25.00
($29.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		The Ganzfeld No. 4: Art History? Two years in the making, the latest issue of the Ganzfeld is finally on our shelves!  It starts out with a wraparound cover and end papers by the high priestess of Canadian comics, Julie Doucet, and doesn't let up .  After the lead off introductions by editor, Dan Nadel and artist extraordinaire, Peter Blegvad, the book is divided up into four sections of approximately equal length.  In the first, Art History, you'll discover a lot that you hadn't know that you needed to know but will be glad to learn, including the secret history of the enigmatic cover art for Led Zeppelin's Presence that's always been a nagging question mark lurking in a back alley of your consciousness ever since you first saw it back in 1976.  Next up is Drawings, by the recognized hepsters Gary Panter and Mark Newgarden, as well as others whose art you are far less likely to have previously come into contact with; but now will!  Artists on Art is an intriguing, highly engaging and fairly unique feature which presents artists on art in art:  David Sandlin's 18-page, lushly colored piece on H.C. Westermann is a tour de force of admiration, while Marc Bell's Ph.D.-thesis-in-comics-form provides a fresh, delightful and direct access to the work of Philip Guston that will be much appreciated by many.  And then, finally, there's the Comics.  This section starts off,  semi-miraculously, with a six-page walking tour of Pittsburgh, both real and dreamed -- as a place on the map and as a state of mind -- by peripatetic former resident, Frank Santoro, and continues with fine work by Paper Rad, Leif Goldberg, Ted Stearn, Matthew Thurber, Jim Drain, Mark Newgarden, and a wild and wooly journey to the center of the mind by "C.F."  The centerpiece is the amazing 22-page, "Ganmodoki," a piece from the late, surrealist period of Japanese manga legend, Shigeru Sugiura.  And there you have it.
Core of Caligula, Episodes 1 - 4 C. F. PictureBox $2.00
($2.00 list)

Read more and comment... 		Here's another "mini comic" that Copacetic regulars have been aware of for quite awhile but that we somehow failed to bring to the attention of readers of this page.  This is an eight-pager with cardstock covers that collects four two-page comics drawn in 2007 & 2008.  Together they form a sketchy, hallucinatory dream narrative that all C. F. fans will find worth their while, and those that are curious to check out his work but aren't yet ready to plunk down for Powr Mastrs might want to take advantage of the low cost entry point this piece represents.