A Short History Of The Comic Strip In Popular Culture XVII

1. Unknown (X-MEN)
2. Cary Kwok Pop In The Eye, 2013
3. Unknown (Disney)
4. Unknown
5. Raymond Pettibon Unknown
6. Comme des Garçons Shirt Spring/Summer 2008
7. John Wesley Woman On Top (detail), 1996
8. John Wesley Untitled (Woman With Glasses, detail), 2004

Sex metaphors within comic. Usually a pastiche or web manipulation, the signals of intercourse via flat colour fields are a recurring fantasy in a seemingly forbidden, sexually neutral, non-physical, hypothetic and pre-adulthood cultural context. Sex in comic is another last taboo.
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A Short History Of The Comic Strip In Popular Culture (Interlude)

1. Gren Zavjalov Portrait, 2010
2. Pierre Debusschere I Know Simply That The Sky Will Last Longer Than I, 2013

Preparing for the storm (of Paris), we will rest in contemplation on the comic(al) and ridiculous, the ironic and misplaced. What we have seen so far in the theatre called 'fashion' surely did not lack in drama or decoration, but maybe meaning and significance. For Spring/Summer collections, florals and shorts just don't do the cut. We laugh and cry inside, and wait (for Paris).
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A Short History Of The Comic Strip In Popular Culture VII

1. Bertrand Lavier Walt Disney Productions, 1947-1995
2. T. Kelly Mason Lifestyle (Red Balloon), 2013
3. Erwin Wurm The Artist Who Swallowed the World, 2006 & Untitled, 2008
4. Thomas Scheibitz Captain Amely, 2007 & Sumpfblüte, 2008

The comic/al in scultpure. If taken and misused as a literal idea, recreating a Disney scenery in 'real' life (Bertrand Lavier) or using comic sculpture as static performance of an ironic story (Erwin Wurm) - enriched with the seductive quality of pop, the materialized comic strip slowly turns into 'strip-tease'.
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