Comic Strip encounters with the architecture of the soul: All Over Coffee
Attention poetic art-form fans - Paul Madonna's All Over Coffee might be your next treat to self.
I was browsing in a Brighton comics store yesterday, as I'm wont to do (though seldom do I buy any comics these days), when I fell upon All Over Coffee - a beautiful hardback bound collection of pictures - comic strips, if you want to be vulgar - featuring illustrations of San Francisco skylines and architecture accompanied by apparently unconnected snapshots of thought or curious conversation. (Though the architecture and stylings of the two are linked by the city, the mood...
Just a couple of pages into the book I knew I was holding something beautiful. £20 - I would usually think twice, but like I say, I knew the beauty was there and that the price was small.
The buildings seem to lean with the prose, the poems; the shading of the streets, the drains, the windowsills, so plain, yet so perfect, breathe with the flow of the words. I could lose myself in this all day: in the streets and the thoughts of Paul Madonna's San Francisco.
Now, I've been having an arse uploading pictures from the net lately - they copy and paste as broken links :(. So I hope this will give you some idea of the art of Paul Madonna and the utterly beguiling All Over Coffee. Otherwise visit the San Francisco Chronical's archive of All Over Coffee.
Keep th' faith,
Article Dan
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