{"product_id":"complete-c-comics","title":"Complete C Comics","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn the mid-1960s, legendary artist and writer Joe Brainard (\u003ci\u003eI Remember\u003c\/i\u003e) teamed with poets such as John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Barbara Guest, Ron Padgett, Kenneth Koch, Ted Berrigan, and many more for these pioneering collaborative comic strips--unavailable for decades and collected here for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"PEOPLE OF THE WORLD... RELAX!\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the creative hotbed of 1960s New York, Joe Brainard was a whirlwind. He was a maker of paintings, assemblages, collages, book covers, poetry-reading flyers, and more. But some of his most exciting work was done with his friends. In 1964, the twenty-two-year-old Brainard turned his talents to rewiring the lowly comic book form into something new and surprising. He invited his friends Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Peter Schjeldahl, Barbara Guest, Ron Padgett, and others--all of them New York School poets--to collaborate with him on comics that they would write and he would draw. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe results were unlike any comics seen before. Previously available only on the rare-book market (at very high prices) but available here under one cover for the first time, the two issues of \u003ci\u003eC Comics\u003c\/i\u003e still feel as fresh as when the first page rolled off the mimeograph machine more than sixty years ago. Brainard's energetic line and joyful humor charge across every page, illustrating O'Hara's recasting of a cowboy as a mash-note-writing lover, Padgett's experiments with traditional cartoon sound effects (ROAR! GRRR! SKREE!), cameos by Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy, and heaps of Dadaesque delights. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition includes a foreword from Padgett and an essay by comics historian Bill Kartalopolous, who details the creation (and creators) of \u003ci\u003eC Comics\u003c\/i\u003e. A masterpiece of collaboration and spontaneity, \u003ci\u003eC Comics\u003c\/i\u003e is a testament to the vastness of Brainard's creativity and his ability to push any artistic form in a new and powerful direction.","brand":"Ron Padgett, Joe Brainard, Bill Kartalopoulos","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47288664883436,"sku":"9781681379876","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781681379876.jpg?v=1770567056","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/complete-c-comics","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}