https://artcritical.com/2012/04/24/e-v-day-and-kembra-pfahler/untitled-21-e-v/ Wed, 30 Apr 2014 05:26:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 https://artcritical.com/2012/04/24/e-v-day-and-kembra-pfahler/untitled-21-e-v/#comment-102033 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 05:26:08 +0000 https://www.artcritical.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Untitled-21-E.V.jpg#comment-102033 Without seeing more than just the imegas excerpted in this review, I can’t say I’m transported by Heather Benjamin’s work, but it is graphically striking, and I like it much better than Aubrey Beardsley’s work. (Well, to be frank, I don’t like Beardsley’s work at all.) If I saw this in a store I’d certainly pick it up and page through it. Maybe I’d even buy it. (That’s how I discovered Joe Coleman, way back in 1982. I wandered into the Eastside Bookstore on St. Mark’s Place in NYC and this weird big magazine was displayed on the table with a strange awkward painting on the cover. I picked it up and paged through it. Inside, the black and white pen and ink artwork of what turned out to be a large, self-published (?) comic book electrified me, shooting bolts through me. I bought it immediately. The book was THE MYSTERY OF WOOLVERINE WOO-BAIT.)

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