4CP Friday

By: John Hilgart
August 5, 2011

To celebrate the one-year anniversary of 4CP, HiLobrow invited guest curators to assemble themed comic-book-detail galleries from 4CP’s collection. Click here to see all galleries.

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THEME: FEAR OF PAPER
CURATOR: JOHN HILGART

HandSheetCrop1-550 — Click on image for larger size.

Hold the paper up to the light
(some rays pass right through)

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GreenBleedHsOfMyst201 copy-550 — Click on image for larger size.

Expose yourself out there for a minute
(some rays pass right through)

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BubbleDetail copy-550 — Click on image for larger size.

It’s hard to imagine that nothing at all
could be so exciting, could be this much fun

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Cyclops0001 copy-550 — Click on image for larger size.

I’m charged up. It’s pretty intense.
I’m charged up. Electricity.

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KirbyFP5Blastman-550 — Click on image for larger size.

All I see is little dots,
but hold on to that paper

Words by David Byrne from the Talking Heads album Fear of Music.

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SIMILAR HILOBROW SERIES: CHESS MATCH — a gallery | FILE X — a gallery | KIRB YOUR ENTHUSIASM — 25 Jack Kirby panels | SECRET PANEL —Silver Age comics’ double entendres | SKRULLICISM | CURATED: 4CP FTW by John Hilgart | ANNOTATED GIF by Kerry Callen | FANCHILD by Adam McGovern

Categories

Comics, Spectacles

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4CP, 4CP-Friday, comics

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John Hilgart's 4CP blog is a gallery of minute fragments of vintage comic books, scanned to monumental size. The blog has been praised for its documentation of 20th century comic book print culture and for the aesthetics Hilgart brings to the selection and composition of material. His earlier gallery, Comic Book Cartography is a warehouse of maps, diagrams, cutaways, notable locations, and other information-rich comic book panels. Hilgart was formerly an English professor and is currently an ad man.