Saturday, October 2, 2010

Eileen Myles | Original art for sale

New Life 002
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"Who wants to watch themselves darkening the land ...?"

Drawn (traced actually) in 2001.

Rapidograph on tracing vellum. 14" x 7". In the photo, some of the text looks smudged or faded, but that's just glare from the light.

$45.00, shipping to anywhere in the world included. If interested, please e-mail me at garypsullivan at gmail dot com. Check or Paypal (but please inquire about which Paypal address to use).

Frank O'Hara vs. Academia | Original art for sale

New Life 001
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"Why, when I'm done with that homosexual Irish-American icon of permissiveness, NO ONE will enjoy reading his poetry!"

Drawn (traced actually) in 2001. The academy embraces O'Hara.

Rapidograph on tracing vellum. 14" x 7". In the photo, some of the text looks smudged or faded, but that's just glare from the light.

$60.00, shipping to anywhere in the world included. If interested, please e-mail me at garypsullivan at gmail dot com. Check or Paypal (but please inquire about which Paypal address to use).

T.S. Eliot discovers fragmentation, Ezra Pound edits | Original art for sale

New Life 006
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"Having accidentally smashed the poem he was distilling, Eliot made what would become a crucial discovery ..."

Drawn in 2002. A comics interpretation of the making of "The Wasteland."

Pen & ink on Bristol board. 14" x 11". White out covers some mistakes.

$40.00, shipping to anywhere in the world included. If interested, please e-mail me at garypsullivan at gmail dot com. Check or Paypal (but please inquire about which Paypal address to use).

The Origin of Language Writing | Hejinian & Silliman | Original art for sale

New Life 003
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"EEEEEEK! Look out, Ron! All of the literary devices have gone haywire! The individual doesn't stand a chance!"

"H-holy radical disjunction, Lyn!"

Drawn (traced actually) in 2001. A comics interpretation of the Language Writing origin myth using imagery from Thor.

Rapidograph on tracing vellum. 14" x 7". In the photo, some of the text looks smudged or faded, but that's just glare from the light.

$60.00, shipping to anywhere in the world included. If interested, please e-mail me at garypsullivan at gmail dot com. Check or Paypal (but please inquire about which Paypal address to use).

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

ERNST HERBECK, poetry comic, original art for sale


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"Timeless Writing: The earth, the volcano & the humming of the bee. Migrating birds. The vibration of ants."

Drawn in 2003. Mini-bio of institutionalized Austrian poet, Ernst Herbeck. With translations of some of his (very short) poems by me.

Pen and ink on 11" x 14" Bristol Board. Some changes were made in white-out.

$40.00, shipping to anywhere in the world included. If interested, please e-mail me at garypsullivan at gmail dot com. Check or Paypal (but please inquire about which Paypal address to use).

FLARF ORIGIN PART 2, original comic art for sale


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Drawn in 2006. OMFG: It's the World Wide Web! Flarf's origin myth continued.

Pen and ink on 11" x 14" Bristol Board. Some changes were made in white-out.

$50.00, shipping to anywhere in the world included. If interested, please e-mail me at garypsullivan at gmail dot com. Check or Paypal (but please inquire about which Paypal address to use).

FLARF ORIGIN PART 1, original comic art for sale


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Drawn in 2005. Flarf's origin myth made even more reductive as a spiffy comic strip.

Pen and ink on 11" x 14" Bristol Board. Some changes were made in white-out.

$50.00, shipping to anywhere in the world included. If interested, please e-mail me at garypsullivan at gmail dot com. Check or Paypal (but please inquire about which Paypal address to use).

Monday, July 19, 2010

Dambudzo Marachera poetry comic, original art for sale


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"I am the luggage no one will claim; the out-of-place turd all deny responsibility; the incredulous sneer all tuck away beneath bland smiles; the loud fart all silently agree never happened; I am the rat every cat secretly fears; the pervert every honest citizen surprisez in his own mirror: POET."

Drawn in 2006. Words by Dambudzo Marechera, Rhodesian (now Zimbabwean) poet, playwright, fiction writer.

Japanese brush pen and ink on 11" x 14" Bristol Board. Some whiteout where words were fixed. As you can see, the bottom edge of the paper is cut or torn oddly, though this does not affect the drawn areas.

$25.00, shipping to anywhere in the world included. If interested, please e-mail me at garypsullivan at gmail dot com. Check or Paypal (but please inquire about which Paypal address to use).

Friday, July 16, 2010

Tokyo poetry comic | original art for sale


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"What do you do if you against the difficulty?"

Drawn in 2004. All words and images from photos taken and notebooks kept in Tokyo, June 2004. This was a sort of "test" comic for the expanded "Tokyo Notebook," published as Elsewhere #1.

Japanese brush pen and ink on 11" x 14" Bristol Board.

$50.00, shipping to anywhere in the world included. If interested, please e-mail me at garypsullivan at gmail dot com. Check or Paypal (but please inquire about which Paypal address to use).

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Amichai/Darwish mash-up with Arabic and Hebrew, original art for sale


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Drawn in 2005. Words collaged from the poetry of Yehuda Amichai and Mahmoud Darwish.

"As long as the earth turns around and around inside us, the war will never end."

Pen and ink on 11" x 14" Bristol Board.

$50.00, shipping to anywhere in the world included. If interested, please e-mail me at garypsullivan at gmail dot com. Check or Paypal (but please inquire about which Paypal address to use).

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Rodney Koeneke poetry comic original art for sale


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Drawn in 2007. Words collaged from the poetry of the fabulous Rodney Koeneke.

"So nifty-galifty to have you for a visit."

Pen and ink on 11" x 14" Bristol Board.

$60.00, shipping to anywhere in the world included. If interested, please e-mail me at garypsullivan at gmail dot com. Check or Paypal (but please inquire about which Paypal address to use).

Shinkichi Takahashi poem married to images of Lebanon 2006 original art for sale


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Drawn in 2006. Words collaged from the poetry of Shinkichi Takahashi.

"Time is singed on the debris of air raids."

Pen and ink on 11" x 14" Bristol Board.

$30.00, shipping to anywhere in the world included. If interested, please e-mail me at garypsullivan at gmail dot com. Check or Paypal (but please inquire about which Paypal address to use).

Alfred Starr Hamilton Vietnam War poem with Falluja, Iraq images, original comic art for sale


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Drawn in 2004. Words = Alfred Starr Hamilton's poem, "Search for Freedom" (1969)

"The moon shone over the newly polished American shoe leather."

Pen and ink on 11" x 14" Bristol Board.

$50.00, shipping to anywhere in the world included. If interested, please e-mail me at garypsullivan at gmail dot com. Check or Paypal (but please inquire about which Paypal address to use).

P. Inman | Poetry comic, original art for sale


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Drawn in 2009 with words collaged from a variety of books by the great P. Inman.

"Diff-
earth

liffey
O'clock"

Pen and ink on 11" x 14" Bristol Board.

$50.00, shipping to anywhere in the world included. If interested, please e-mail me at garypsullivan at gmail dot com. Check or Paypal (but please inquire about which Paypal address to use).

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Anagrams of "American Imperialism" original art for sale Captain America


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Drawn in 2003 in response to U.S. aggression. Poetry comic version of anagram poem.

"I'm a criminal pie smear / I am real in rape's mimic"

Pen and ink on 11" x 14" Bristol Board.

$50.00, shipping to anywhere in the world included. If interested, please e-mail me at garypsullivan at gmail dot com. Check or Paypal (but please inquire about which Paypal address to use).

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Jerome Sala poetry comic original art for sale


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Drawn in 2006. All words from a poem by Jerome Sala.

"... the only culture we have is the air you breathe you human fuckers"

Japanese brush pen on 11" x 14" Bristol Board.

$75.00, shipping to anywhere in the world included. If interested, please e-mail me at garypsullivan at gmail dot com. Check or Paypal (but please inquire about which Paypal address to use).

Sharon Mesmer's Unicorn Boner for Humanity, original art for sale


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Drawn in 2007. All words from Sharon Mesmer's "Unicorn Boner for Humanity."

"'Every day I feel a little horny' is a clear nod to the unicorn boner."

Pen and ink on 11" x 14" Bristol Board. I did a lot of literal cutting and pasting on this one, as I completely ruined the first drafts of some of these panels.

$75.00, shipping to anywhere in the world included. If interested, please e-mail me at garypsullivan at gmail dot com. Check or Paypal (but please inquire about which Paypal address to use).

Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven poetry comic original art for sale


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Drawn in 2004. All words from the poetry of the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. Although part of the Rain Taxi "New Life" series, this comic was specifically drawn in an adult education class at SVA taught by Matt Madden. The assignment was to create a "dada" comic. Obviously, this is not a dada comic; it is, rather, a comic about a dada poet.

Cheating? Or creative license? You decide!

Pen and ink on 11" x 14" Bristol Board. You can see many areas that have been whited out, though other corrections prior to publication were made in Photoshop.

$75.00, shipping to anywhere in the world included. If interested, please e-mail me at garypsullivan at gmail dot com. Check or Paypal.

Monday, July 5, 2010

Flarf | poetry comic original art for sale


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Created using Japanese pen nibs and collage on 11" x 14" Bristol Board. "All I understand is blah blah blah ME HORNY blah blah blah."

$100, shipping to anywhere in the world included. If interested, please e-mail me at garypsullivan at gmail dot com. Check or Paypal.

Basquiat, Kevin Young | poetry comic original art for sale


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Created using brush and Rapidograph on 11" x 14" Bristol Board. All words from Kevin Young's To Repel Ghosts; images are of Basquiat & his work.

$75, shipping to anywhere in the world included. If interested, please e-mail me at garypsullivan at gmail dot com. Check or Paypal.

Katie Degentesh | Anger Scale comic original art for sale


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Created using Japanese pen nibs and Rapidograph on 11" x 14" Bristol Board. All words from Katie Degentesh's The Anger Scale.

$75, shipping to anywhere in the world included. If interested, please e-mail me at garypsullivan at gmail dot com. Check or Paypal.

Tao Lin | Poetry Comic original art for sale


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Created using Japanese pen nibs on 11" x 14" Bristol Board. All words from Tao Lin's you are a little bit happier than i am.

$100, shipping to anywhere in the world included. If interested, please e-mail me at garypsullivan at gmail dot com. Check or Paypal.

Rod Smith | poetry comic original art for sale


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Created using Japanese pen nibs and collaged artwork onto 11" x 14" Bristol Board. All words from Rod Smith's recent book, Deed.

$75, shipping to anywhere in the world included. If interested, please e-mail me at garypsullivan at gmail dot com. Check or Paypal.

K. Silem Mohammad | New Life poetry comic original art for sale


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Created using a combination of Japanese pen nibs and collaged imagery from British comics and Hindi language primers on 11" x 14" Bristol Board, using words from K. Silem Mohammad's book, Breathalyzer.

$100, shipping to anywhere in the world included. If interested, please e-mail me at garypsullivan at gmail dot com. Check or Paypal.

Edwin Torres poetry comic | original art for sale


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Drawn in 2009. All typeset and hand-drawn words from the poetry of Edwin Torres. Originally published in Rain Taxi.

Rapidograph pens and printed text on 11" x 14" Bristol Board. You can see areas that have been whited out, though other corrections prior to publication were made in Photoshop. A panel has been pasted on.

$75.00, shipping to anywhere in the world included. If interested, please e-mail me at garypsullivan at gmail dot com. Check or Paypal.