What does Tori Amos and over 80 comic artists, writers and creators have in common? Comic Book Tattoo.
A perfect sizable coffee table anthology of comics inspired by THE Tori Amos.
Comic Book Tattoo takes you on a visual journey through the story telling nature of Amos' lyrics of the fantastical kind. Your adventure with Amos begins by boarding the "Flying Dutchman" which demonstrates deliberately and directly the link between the words of her song and the sequential artisary of the comic in a sort of 101 How to read Comic Book Tattoo way.
Never the less, I find myself enthralled in the magic of it. And the real magic is not how the book makes time disappear, but in how an artist illustrates with ink and colour what Amos paints with music. There is this little tug in me that makes me feel as if I am missing out on something by not listening to her music, or even just one of the 50 songs that are boxed and lined on these pages.
I believe this is the first time I have read essentially a comic book that coaxes me to listen to an artist of the music kind. Sweet sounding words and tempting imagery always does the trick and with that, Comic Book Tattoo can be considered an enchantress.
A perfect sizable coffee table anthology of comics inspired by THE Tori Amos.
Comic Book Tattoo takes you on a visual journey through the story telling nature of Amos' lyrics of the fantastical kind. Your adventure with Amos begins by boarding the "Flying Dutchman" which demonstrates deliberately and directly the link between the words of her song and the sequential artisary of the comic in a sort of 101 How to read Comic Book Tattoo way. But after that, as you soar through the pages, the comics in relation to the lyrics become slightly abstract. And when you dive through a few more pages and swim through some more stories, floating with brilliantly illustrated pieces, you slowly lose yourself in it.
Sorry for those who are quite a follower of the muse herself, but I personally am not a fan. Strange as it is, I am one of those that may possibly have heard her music through the radio or in the back drop of a cafe but never once made note that it was Tori Amos.
Never the less, I find myself enthralled in the magic of it. And the real magic is not how the book makes time disappear, but in how an artist illustrates with ink and colour what Amos paints with music. There is this little tug in me that makes me feel as if I am missing out on something by not listening to her music, or even just one of the 50 songs that are boxed and lined on these pages.
I believe this is the first time I have read essentially a comic book that coaxes me to listen to an artist of the music kind. Sweet sounding words and tempting imagery always does the trick and with that, Comic Book Tattoo can be considered an enchantress.
Thanks Ali, for your first contribution to the blog. Looking forward to more.
The thing that impresses me immediatley about Comic Book Tattoo is that it is a huge slab of a book, a huge, floppy, softcover coffee table book.
The other thing is that it is a graphic anthology well suited to someone knew to the whole graphic novel thing. It is very cool.
So awesome! I love your design, man. I used to be a tattoo designer too, but I've resigned and start to sell Temporary Tattoos
wow beautiful art, i love tattoo than kopi tribulus