4CP Friday

By: Matthew Battles
June 24, 2011

To celebrate the one-year anniversary of 4CP, HiLobrow invited guest curators to assemble themed comic-book-detail galleries from 4CP’s collection. Click here to see all galleries.

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THEME: SMOKING
CURATOR: MATTHEW BATTLES

HiLobrow likes pipes, but it seems like the cigarette is the preferred smoking medium of the comic. As in film, the comic cigarette billows and burns with inspiration, contemplation, pleasure, danger, and idleness. Comics, the movies, and cigarettes — all three combine mass production with the possibilities of individual experience. But in the first two — and if we believe Derrida, even with the third — it’s always a case of ceci n’est pas une cigarette.

BlackMagicSmokerCrop.jpg.scaled.550 — Click on image for larger version

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BitterCigarette0001.jpg.scaled.550 — Click on image for larger version

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SuaveSmokerCrop_copy.jpg.scaled550 — Click on image for larger version

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ImpPokerSmaller.jpg.scaled.550 — Click on image for larger version

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SIMILAR HILOBROW SERIES: CHESS MATCH — a gallery | FILE X — a gallery | KIRB YOUR ENTHUSIASM — 25 Jack Kirby panels | SECRET PANEL —Silver Age comics’ double entendres | SKRULLICISM | CURATED: 4CP FTW by John Hilgart | ANNOTATED GIF by Kerry Callen | FANCHILD by Adam McGovern

Categories

Comics, Spectacles

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4CP, 4CP-Friday, comics

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Part of the founding HILOBROW crew, Matthew Battles is a maker and thinker whose work merges literary, scholarly, and artistic forms of inquiry. His writing on the cultural dimensions of science and technology has appeared in such venues as The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, and Orion. His most recent book,Tree, was published in Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series in 2017. After ten years exploring the dark abundance of libraries and museums with metaLAB (at) Harvard, Matthew now edits Arnoldia: the Nature of Trees, the magazine of the Arnold Arboretum.