When I signed up to contribute a comic for the 2024 WiP anthology of the theme “short stories” I puzzled at how to support this theme when any and all short form comics are already short stories.
Before you know it, I was going meta….
“Shorts” portrays an audience captured in various moments of four different film screenings of four suggested films, presumably by artists other than Mary (though, obviously everything in the comic is Mary’s creation. Ha!).
“Shorts” is a comic without a narrative, or a 4-piece comic art series. As such, “Shorts” is the ultimate post-modern, self-reflexive comic. It is a comic portraying film, films by other artists but all Mary and it’s a comic which transcends narrative in order to reflect back philosophically on themes of story, film as a medium, comics as a medium and authorship.
“Shorts: Four (Major) Artists” is a 4-page comic. Written and illustrated by Mary Bluestocking.
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“Shorts: Four (Major) Artists” © Mary Bluestocking, 2024. All rights reserved.
4-page comic. Written and illustrated by Mary Bluestocking.
Published November 2024 in Short Stories by WiP Comics
Cover art by Claudia Matosa
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Short Stories comix anthology, of the double anthology set: Short Stories and Tall Tales.
Published by WiP Comics, London, UK
Print edition: Book, color, A5.
Digital edition: PDF
Edited by Mike Armstrong
Cover design by Claudia Matosa
Contributors: Over 70 between both books of set.
Mary’s contribution: “Shorts: Four (Major) Artists” (first edition). Created for Shorts anthology.
Special thanks to all who backed the Short Stories and Tall Tales Kickstarter campaign!
Anthology set debut at the 2024 Thought Bubble Comic Convention in Yorkshire, UK.
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Available for purchase SOON at the WiP Comics online shop.