Exhibition on display July 15th beginning at 5 PM PT to July 30th.Whoops.Gallery Nucleus is pleased to welcome illustrator Linnea Sterte, author and artist of award-winning books Stages of Rot and A Frog in Fall, to the gallery for her first solo show in the United States! Traveling all the way from Sweden, Linnea will be signing copies of her books and debuting brand new artwork for the show. I just got to thinking after looking at this about those odd science fiction comics that Rios did for Island– incredibly different aesthetically, just in every which way, but that’d be the conversation I’d want to hear, I guess, even though there’s really no similarity in the work…? This paragraph doesn’t make a lot of sense I guess. But if there were like a podcast for comics that were like what A24 does with its podcast ( which can be a fun one, if you don’t know about that), I’d want to see her talking to Emma Rios. The obvious comparison point is Miyazaki’s manga and especially Moebius since it has a similarly improvisational feel in a lot of ways, or … an interest in line first and the primacy of line, I guess is how I’d put it. So I guess people know about it? I dunno– I just saw it at a store, a million years ago. It was Eisner nominated in 2018 and I guess won a MoCCA award per the cover. Storytelling clarity could be better in places, but it’s solid on mood and atmosphere. It’s very cool temperature colors on this one, but bold. It’s a pretty one! It’s a Peow Studios book and I just really dig the colors that crew achieves with their books– I don’t know if it’s how they print their books (It says it’s printed in Poland) or maybe it’s the paper– the paper feels really good but.
More an art-driven experience– kind of a fast read if you’re not in the mood to linger– but the art does invite a linger. Very minimal in terms of dialogue or narration– mostly silent. What a pretty comic! Sterte has this whispy line, and the story is that sort of equally-whispy science fiction comic that’s more about a space being explored visually than the mechanics of plot? It’s about a giant space whale that’s died and showing the stages of it rotting as the world goes on around them– civilizations coming and going, etc.
I finally sat down with Linnea Sterte’s Stages of Rot, which had been sitting on my To Read pile for a while.
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