Zeitraum #2
Zeitraum #2 is an anthology. Unfortunately ZUM! does not have a sample image at present.
| Zeitraum #2 Ed: Andy Contributors: Maakie Hartjes, Andreas Alt, Joel Naber, Andy, Dave Morris, Babara Stok, Reiner DijKhuis, Phil, Marcel Ruijters, Yasmin Abdulhac |
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Zeitraum is an anthology with a theme, i.e. no dialogue in the comic strips. (Issue 1 had comic strips in German, going against the grain of British small press' self-defeating insularity). It kicks off with one of Erik Kriek's warm, funny and emotionally accurate Gutsman strips. Erik appears in it himself and gets to go on a date with his female creation Tigra (who, if I remember rightly, is nostalgically based on a character from the discarded logo of some Dutch Cigarettes). Erik's black & white art is as gorgeously pulpish as ever. The 3rd page's black sun lighting a romantic walk on a beach, as the strollers pass between sandcastles and half buried canister of nuclear waste, alone justifies the magazine's conceit that comics don't need words to communicate an experience. I also liked Make Hartjes' untitled one-pager about two people sharing a bed in a suffocatingly hot room. The subsequent argument about the radiator causes the hot person to contemplate ending the relationship. Then there are tears and, finally, reconciliation. Carping criticisms: I feel it was a shame there were no artist biographies. And I found editor Andy's diagrammatic cover ugly. Like so many of his articles in other magazines, it struck me as too pugnacious. His doodly strips on page 30,however, I thought, were excellent. Superflame might well have deserved a page to itself, whereas the snake guzzling booze from an abandoned bottle and then feeling sick was lovely and worked well in its marginal home. I hope there is already, or will be very soon, another silent Zeitraum.
Chris Butler.
| Zeitraum #2: 32 A4 B&W pages. | Recieved at ZUM! HQ: no info |
£1.95/Dm6 Sub:£7/DM20/FF70/$10 +P+P (cash please) | Andy, PO Box 8892, London, SW15 |