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Pablo Holmberg aka Kioskerman: Re-Entering The Gates of Eden
Posted: December 29, 2015
“The strip format doesn’t belong to newspapers. It is simply a short format and people should do with it whatever they please.” This call-to-arms from Kioskerman, pen-name of Pablo Holmberg, is precisely what the internet enabled him to try when he began his weekly webcomics in 2004. Born in Buenos Aires in 1979, Holmberg avoided using the regular, merchandisable characters and undemanding, repetitive formulas which some cartoonists have traditionally relied on to maintain the productivity and public appeal of their daily episodes. The conventional gag-a-day or cliffhanger narrative of a strip might seem too confining, but in Holmberg’s hands four square images, clustered two-by-two, relate and resonate with each other to become an underlying rhythm and leitmotiv. In their duality and parallelism, the words and pictures in Edén reinforce each other rather than decorate each other. By stretching this apparently simple format to new limits of emotion and depth, Holmberg demonstrates that it offers more than enough space to build up over time into a world of ideas and feelings. Read my profile and Holmberg’s new 2-page comic for ArtReview magazine here…
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