Richard Kraft

Here Comes Kitty: A Comic Opera

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In this wildly irreverent collage narrative, artist Richard Kraft reassembles a Cold War comic about a Polish spy infiltrating the Nazis to orchestrate a multiplicity of voices into joyous cacophony. Like an Indian miniature painting, each comic book page is densely layered, collapsing foreground and background, breaking the frame and merging time. An unlikely and enormous cast of characters emerges as Kraft appropriates images and texts from an extraordinary variety of sources (the Amar Chitra Katha comics of Hindu mythology, Jimmy Swaggart’s Old and New Testament stories, the 1960s English football annual Scorcher, and underground porn comics like Cherry as well as images from art history, outdated encyclopedias, and more).
Proceeding from Thoreau’s observation, “Yes and No are lies. A true answer will not aim to establish anything, but rather to set all well afloat,” Kraft subverts all certainty to reconstruct a world constantly in flux, rich with dark humor and its own revelatory nonsense. Author Danielle Dutton’s set of sixteen interpolations punctuate the book using similar strategies of appropriation and juxtaposition to create texts that sing in the same arresting register as Kraft’s collages. Here Comes Kitty also includes a wide-ranging conversation between Kraft and poet Ann Lauterbach. - Siglio Press

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    1. Gary Nickard and Geno Rodriguez and curators

      A Tale of Two Cities : Belfast, Beirut
      New York, NY: Alternative Museum, 1990
      size unknown
      $7.00
    2. Printed Matter

      Freedom : Printed Matter 1996 Catalog
      New York, NY: Inc. and Printed Matter Inc., 1996
      $85.00
    3. Simon Grennan and Christopher Sperandio

      The Body
      Chicago, IL: Bootstrap Works, 1990
      $6.00
    4. Richard Kraft

      Here Comes Kitty: A Comic Opera
      Los Angeles, CA: Siglio Press, 2015
      $32.00
    5. Hetamoé (Ana Matilde Sousa), Amanda Baeza, Sofia Neto and Silvia Rodrigues

      QCDA #2000: Comics for Wanderers
      Lisbon, Portugal: Chili Com Carne, 2014
      500
      Out of stock
    6. Ellef Prestsæter

      These Are Situationist Times!: An Inventory of Reproductions, Deformations, Modifications, Derivations, and Transformations
      Oslo, Norway: Torpedo Press, 2019
      1500
      Out of stock
    7. Annie Simpson (as part of Take Action Chapel Hill)

      Cops & Klan Go Hand-In-Hand
      Chapel Hill, NC: A. Simpson (as part of Take Action Chapel Hill), 2019
    8. Chris Kursel

      Bullseye Comics #3: White Terrorist
      Glasgow, UK: C. Kursel, 2017
      100
      Out of stock
    9. Chris Kursel

      Bullseye Comics #2: Constriction
      Glasgow, UK: C. Kursel, 2017
      $7.00
    10. Beth Pickens

      Making Art During Fascism
      Los Angeles, CA: CO-Conspirator Press, 2020
      Out of stock
    11. World War 3 Illustrated and World War 3

      World War 3 Illustrated
      New York, NY: World War 3
      Out of stock
    12. John Bock, Peter Doig and Fred Tomaselli

      Parkett
      New York and Zurich, NY and Switzerland: Parkett, 2003
      size unknown
      Out of stock
    13. Jonathan Horowitz

      Go Vegan!
      New York, NY: Gavin Brown's Enterprise, 2010
      100
      Out of stock
    14. World War 3 Illustrated and World War 3

      World War 3 Illustrated
      New York, NY: World War 3
      Out of stock
    15. World War 3 Illustrated

      World War 3 Illustrated
      NY, NY: World War 3, 2000
      size unknown
      Out of stock
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