Raw #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Vamp Dance" is a striking, experimental dive into the form of comics, crafted entirely by Art Spiegelman in Raw #1 (1980). The story unfolds through a series of disconnected panels, each featuring thought balloons filled with abstract shapes—squares and triangles—instead of text, challenging how we read and interpret visual storytelling. The cover, also by Spiegelman, mirrors the issue’s bold, self-aware approach to the medium.
A stark, minimalist meditation on comics form, "Drawn Over Two Weeks While on the Phone." unfolds in a single, unbroken page of disconnected panels, each framing thought balloons filled not with words but with geometric shapes—squares and triangles—suggesting the silent, abstract architecture of consciousness.
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Reprints
↩ Reprints Kar-tūnz' #6 (1979), (À Suivre) #16 (1979), Métal Hurlant #45 bis (1979)
Reprinted in El Víbora #24 (1981), L'Écho des savanes #84bis (1982), Raw One-Shot #3 (1984), Read Yourself Raw #[nn] (1987), The Complete Jack Survives #[nn] (2009), MetaMaus #[nn] (2012), New York Mon Amour #[nn] (2012), Co-Mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps #[nn] (2013)
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