{"id":13930,"date":"2010-05-02T11:30:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T16:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13930"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:45:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:45:22","slug":"newman-al-owl-the-abstract-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13930","title":{"rendered":"Newman, Al “Owl” – The Abstract Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, this has to be the first posthumous review of a comic on this website.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s awkwardly worded, as it’s the creator that died a few years back, but I think you get the idea.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, Squidworks put together a collection of his minis and you can still see this whole comic online (and in color) for free, so why not add it?\u00c2\u00a0 This is the story of a dissatisfied artist who wonders why nobody ever buys his abstract art.\u00c2\u00a0 At the end of his rope he muses that he’d sell his soul if only he could get his paintings to sell, and that usually (in comic books and movies) brings the devil around.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure enough, he pops up, but is instantly rejected by the artist, who isn’t satisfied with the offer.\u00c2\u00a0 He eventually talks Satan into giving him three wishes, to be granted every six months.\u00c2\u00a0 Things don’t work out in the end, as Satan generally manages to find a loophole, but it’s a funny ride to get there.\u00c2\u00a0 The sheer self-absorption of this artist is breathtaking, and he goes from being at least a mildly sympathetic character to somebody who you can’t wait to see taken down a peg.\u00c2\u00a0 The art is fairly simple (the first page is one of the few where you’ll see backgrounds), but as it’s a story about abstract art, it doesn’t need a lot of additional work.\u00c2\u00a0 This is worth a look, which you can do for free at that .pdf file I linked above, and now, of course, I’m curious about what else this man has done.\u00c2\u00a0 Luckily there are a few free comics at the link posted above, so it’ll be easy to catch up on his work in mini comics.<\/p>\n

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Website PDF file of this comic The Abstract Artist Well, this has to be the first posthumous review of a comic on this website.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s awkwardly worded, as it’s the creator that died a few years back, but I think you get the idea.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, Squidworks put together a collection of his minis and you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3882,1795],"class_list":["post-13930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-al-owl-newman","tag-the-abstract-artist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13930"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13933,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13930\/revisions\/13933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}