Comic art used in interior design for 21st century?

by **uno7** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:50 am

Comic art used in interior design for 21st century?

I know pop art is most sometimes used but has comic art become an element of home/interior design? black and white (inked) romance panels from the 50's or possibly action comics? superman/ wonderwoman?

just wondering...

by **epstein2** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:05 pm

I have the same question!
My thesis is about linking graphic novels and comics to textiles and interiors. I'd like to know... so far it seems like a very new field.
I have seen some recent ads for DKNY collaborating with a graphic novelist, but so far, the connection seems indirect.

by **Ohiobuild** » Tue May 27, 2008 5:49 pm

I have thought several times about wallpaper stenciling large R. Crumb comic sections on my walls. Chris Ware has an interest in architecture as it relates to comic layouts and rhythm. this is a link to a mural he did for 826 valencia san francisco http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2005/240 ... dd778d.jpg
not interior, I know, but interesting.

He thinks of his comics as if they were in 3-D. and interesting that comics show stories, and buildings levels are called stories. I just read a good book about it: "Chris Ware", by Daniel Raeburn....."The word 'story', meaning a narrative as well as the storey of a building, is an etymological fossil that contains a missing link between narrative art and architecture. As Art Spiegelman has pointed out, "story" descended from the medieval Latin "historia", which meant "picture" as well as the horizontal division of a building. Latin users derived this conflation from the medieval practice of placing a picture in each window of a building, especially in churches. A storey was litterally a row of colored pictures."
The whole book isn't entirely about comic theory and architecture, mostly Wares work, but its still really fascinating.