Chain 8: Comics

How can you be alone if you have a “thought” with you? —Ignatz Mouse It’s wot’s behind me that I am. . . . —Krazy Kat We see—as in this—one frame at a time. —Leslie Scalapino Over 300 pages of wanton seriality...comic strips, graphic novels, frameworks, comedies of errors, thought balloons, sequential narratives, political cartoons, funnies, social satires, caricature, seriality, text & image, captions, comic relief. Included in this issue is work by an eccentric mix of artists, scholars, and poets such as David Choe, Rey Chow, Thalia Field, Phoebe Gloeckner, Ron Padgett, Raymond Pettibon, Kevin Quigley, Gary Sullivan, and Mack White. Chain emphasizes work by new or emerging artists and collaborative and mixed genre work.