All the more so because the artists’ conflicts feel posited, not experienced. The road trips, the personalities, the remarks on museums and strategies - it’s all casually presumed and I assume it’s meant to be transparent. Providence and Western Mass loom large for Larmee and his peers. The art collective is obviously based on some amalgamation of an imagined Paper Rad and Forcefield. That is the second, and for me, most intriguing narrative here, and one inseparable from Larmee’s writing on art and comics. It is also, most obviously, the work of a young man (born in 1985) trying to understand the mythologies he’s constructed for himself. There will be others.) it is frequently beautiful, especially when Larmee allows himself to render a detail: a lamp on page 25, or Cody and Alice languid and relaxed on page 51. The book is well paced and nicely drawn in pencil, smudges and detritus left in, rendered somewhere between CF and Jockum Nordstrom (the topic of another debate: right down to the lettering style, it’s a lot of CF, but who cares? Influence is inevitable. The crew travels to Florida they fail at a quasi-Spiritual act on a walk, Alice remarks how much better her experience would be if it were in a museum Holly is left behind they return to normal life. At a performance the trio meets Holly, who is presumably a non-institutional being who nearly becomes a fourth member, but serves to illuminate to character and audience the inner lives of the three primary members. Cody and Alice go to “The New Museum” and enjoy it. The book opens with Cody saying, “Our conceptual art group is not going as planned.” Later, there’s a party. Young Lions, by Blaise Larmee, is the story of a three-artist performance group comprised of Alice, a wealthy snob, Wilson, a didactic leader, and Cody, who is dreamy and less ambitious. The Playwright: Axes, Bold As Love | The Panelists on 9-Panel Grids.Hold me closer, tiny Danzig… « No Moleste on Esoteric Comics History part 666.The Mid-Life Moment in Alternative Comics.

You got to have a J-O-B if you wanna be with me.Cage Match #3: My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (2008).

Young Lions by Blaise Larmee