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Joan the Drone Pilot & Mary the Drone / Lale Westvind
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FA.B133.3141
16 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
2017
Softcover. Staple bound (saddle stitched). Comic book with single-color risograph printed covers in Bright Red on beige paper and interior illustrations in Plum on pink paper.
"Printed and published with Fume Room Press, Philadelphia, 2017, special thanks to Paula SBC! and Ash F ;)" -- from colophon
"Lale Westvind encapsulates the boundless energy and nerve of heroines independent of vulnerability or gendered limitations in her Joan the Drone Pilot & Mary the Drone. This comic is risograph-printed in dual-tone on double-sided sheets that maneuver between traditional formatting and more disorienting visual queues. Her erratic illustration style imbues each panel and individual scene with its own frenetic tone and intensity, while her adherence to a restricted palette and lexicon of marks connects each page with those around it. Westvind’s formal decisions and mark making may suggest an interest in less iterative, more gestural and textured output, however, the dense verbal component of her comics ultimately orients them towards the canon of sequential art and reproducible imagery. The comic is centered upon a strong, commandeering character, Mary, whose presence disrupts forces of surveillance and war that occupy the depicted landscape. The corporal reality of Mary or that of her acquaintances is ambiguous at best; the ‘drone pilot consciousness, Joan Doe’ that assists her is one of many introductions that fulfills an interpretation of the comic as at once simultaneously a feminist allegory targeting machine driven war and championing non-male companionship and collaboration, as well as an illustrated investigation of poetic prose as it fits within the conventions of comic design and storytelling." -- from Printed Matter website, accessed June 12, 2024
"Printed and published with Fume Room Press, Philadelphia, 2017, special thanks to Paula SBC! and Ash F ;)" -- from colophon
"Lale Westvind encapsulates the boundless energy and nerve of heroines independent of vulnerability or gendered limitations in her Joan the Drone Pilot & Mary the Drone. This comic is risograph-printed in dual-tone on double-sided sheets that maneuver between traditional formatting and more disorienting visual queues. Her erratic illustration style imbues each panel and individual scene with its own frenetic tone and intensity, while her adherence to a restricted palette and lexicon of marks connects each page with those around it. Westvind’s formal decisions and mark making may suggest an interest in less iterative, more gestural and textured output, however, the dense verbal component of her comics ultimately orients them towards the canon of sequential art and reproducible imagery. The comic is centered upon a strong, commandeering character, Mary, whose presence disrupts forces of surveillance and war that occupy the depicted landscape. The corporal reality of Mary or that of her acquaintances is ambiguous at best; the ‘drone pilot consciousness, Joan Doe’ that assists her is one of many introductions that fulfills an interpretation of the comic as at once simultaneously a feminist allegory targeting machine driven war and championing non-male companionship and collaboration, as well as an illustrated investigation of poetic prose as it fits within the conventions of comic design and storytelling." -- from Printed Matter website, accessed June 12, 2024
