![]() ![]() It’s as though the evil being depicted – being channeled, perhaps – corrupts the very stuff of the artwork itself, forcing Columbia to commit some of it to paper but preventing him from going any farther than he does for fear of drawing too much of it into being.īut it’s okay – as you can see in this selection of rare full-color Pim & Francie art from Hi-Fructose Magazine, he goes plenty far. Faded and aged, torn up and re-assembled, smudged and erased and even burned, the adventures of his two childlike characters Pim & Francie are related in deliberately decontexualized images – covers for comic books that don’t exist, panels from stories without beginnings or ends, sketches for pieces that were perhaps never intended to be finished. ![]() Webcomic Wednesday: Pim & Francie by Al Columbiaĭespite their tangible handmade quality, the comics and art of Al Columbia feel less like work someone made and more like transmissions. ![]()
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