CONARD, SéBASTIEN / CREMERS, STIJN / LAMBEENS, TOM / OP DE BEECK, JAN - Aambacht N°2

Gent, Imprimitiv vzw. 2012, Limited. Soft Cover. Artists' Book, Fine. Text: NL. 68 p.; ills.; 15 x 17 cm; 150 g. Edition: 150 copies. 'Aambacht 2 explicitly questions the notion of ‘comics’. By way of a translation of the introduction to an 1976 edition of Communications on the topic of ‘the comic and its discourse’, the editorial team provides some context for the chosen contributions, which comprise various graphical and textual pieces, as well as interventions that relate the two modes of communication explicitly to one another. Following on from the translated text by Michel Covin, Pierre Fresnault-Deruelle and Bernard Toussaint, there are word-images by Jan Op de Beeck, Veerle Herremans, Benjamin Monti, Warja Lavater, Tom Lambeens, Arnoud van Adrichem, Olivier Schrauwen, François Van Damme, Gerard Herman, Yuichi Yokoyama, Sébastien Conard, Walter Swennen and Joris De Rycke, all encapsulated in a design by Stijn Cremers.' Fine copy. (ISBN: 9781151024398)