Detail of Tommi Parrish’s gouache, ‘I was just trying to be alive’ (2014); Collection the artist, supplied
The usual upbeat banter of escapades in Lycra is strikingly absent from a new exhibition of comic book images at the Art Gallery of WA (AGWA).
Comic Tragics: the exploding language of contemporary comic art explores the inner lives of artists who created comics, revealing a shadow self in an art form often associated with childhood trivia.
