Enter your email Address

ENTROPY
  • About
    • About
    • Masthead
    • Advertising
    • Submission Guidelines
    • Info on Book Reviews
  • Essays
    • All Introspection
      film

      Returning Home with Ross McElwee

      December 13, 2019

      Creative Nonfiction / Essay

      Beyond the Dolls’ House

      December 13, 2019

      Creative Nonfiction / Essay

      Luck

      December 12, 2019

      Creative Nonfiction / Essay

      Best of 2019: Nonfiction Books

      December 12, 2019

      Introspection

      Returning Home with Ross McElwee

      December 13, 2019

      Introspection

      The Birds: In Our Piety

      November 14, 2019

      Introspection

      Variations: Landslide

      June 12, 2019

      Introspection

      Variations on a Theme: Walls

      June 5, 2019

  • Fiction
    • Fiction

      Best of 2019: Favorite Online Fiction & Short Stories

      December 6, 2019

      Fiction

      Autumn Passing

      December 5, 2019

      Fiction

      Best of 2019: Best Fiction Books

      December 5, 2019

      Fiction

      Vexing the Dog

      November 27, 2019

      Fiction

      A Hurt In Negative

      November 20, 2019

  • Reviews
    • All Collaborative Review Video Review
      Review

      On Brendan Lorber’s If This Is Paradise Why Are We Still Driving

      December 12, 2019

      Review

      Review: The Way Cities Feel to Us Now by Nathaniel Kennon Perkins

      December 9, 2019

      Review

      Obsessive, Recursive Violence and Concentration: Charlene Elsby’s Hexis

      December 5, 2019

      Review

      EVERYTHING CAN GO/ ON THE GRILL: A Combined Review of Alissa Quart

      December 2, 2019

      Collaborative Review

      A Street Car Named Whatever

      February 22, 2016

      Collaborative Review

      Black Gum: A Conversational Review

      August 7, 2015

      Collaborative Review

      Lords of Waterdeep in Conversation

      February 25, 2015

      Collaborative Review

      MOUTH: EATS COLOR and the Devoration of Languages

      January 12, 2015

      Video Review

      Entropy’s Super Mario Level

      September 15, 2015

      Video Review

      Flash Portraits of Link: Part 7 – In Weakness, Find Strength

      January 2, 2015

      Video Review

      Basal Ganglia by Matthew Revert

      March 31, 2014

      Video Review

      The Desert Places by Amber Sparks and Robert Kloss, Illustrated by Matt Kish

      March 21, 2014

  • Small Press
    • Small Press

      Penteract Press

      December 10, 2019

      Small Press

      Game Over Books

      December 3, 2019

      Small Press

      Jamii Publishing

      November 19, 2019

      Small Press

      Elixir Press

      November 12, 2019

      Small Press

      Blasted Tree Press

      October 29, 2019

  • Where to Submit
  • More
    • Poetry
    • Interviews
    • Games
      • All Board Games Video Games
        Games

        Best of 2019: Video Games

        December 13, 2019

        Games

        Hunt A Killer, Earthbreak, and Empty Faces: Escapism for the Post-Truth Era

        September 21, 2019

        Board Games

        Ludic Writing: Lady of the West

        July 27, 2019

        Board Games

        Session Report: Paperback and Anomia

        July 27, 2019

        Board Games

        Ludic Writing: Lady of the West

        July 27, 2019

        Board Games

        Session Report: Paperback and Anomia

        July 27, 2019

        Board Games

        Ludic Writing: The Real Leeds Part 12 (Once in a Lifetime)

        November 10, 2018

        Board Games

        Ludic Writing: The Real Leeds Part 11 (Karma Police)

        November 3, 2018

        Video Games

        Best of 2019: Video Games

        December 13, 2019

        Video Games

        Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the Spirit of Generosity

        December 31, 2018

        Video Games

        Best of 2018: Video Games

        December 17, 2018

        Video Games

        Silent Hill Shattered Memories: Biography of a Place

        September 3, 2018

    • Food
    • Small Press Releases
    • Film
    • Music
    • Paranormal
    • Travel
    • Art
    • Graphic Novels
    • Comics
    • Current Events
    • Astrology
    • Random
  • RESOURCES
  • The Accomplices
    • THE ACCOMPLICES
    • Enclave
    • Trumpwatch

ENTROPY

  • About
    • About
    • Masthead
    • Advertising
    • Submission Guidelines
    • Info on Book Reviews
  • Essays
    • All Introspection
      film

      Returning Home with Ross McElwee

      December 13, 2019

      Creative Nonfiction / Essay

      Beyond the Dolls’ House

      December 13, 2019

      Creative Nonfiction / Essay

      Luck

      December 12, 2019

      Creative Nonfiction / Essay

      Best of 2019: Nonfiction Books

      December 12, 2019

      Introspection

      Returning Home with Ross McElwee

      December 13, 2019

      Introspection

      The Birds: In Our Piety

      November 14, 2019

      Introspection

      Variations: Landslide

      June 12, 2019

      Introspection

      Variations on a Theme: Walls

      June 5, 2019

  • Fiction
    • Fiction

      Best of 2019: Favorite Online Fiction & Short Stories

      December 6, 2019

      Fiction

      Autumn Passing

      December 5, 2019

      Fiction

      Best of 2019: Best Fiction Books

      December 5, 2019

      Fiction

      Vexing the Dog

      November 27, 2019

      Fiction

      A Hurt In Negative

      November 20, 2019

  • Reviews
    • All Collaborative Review Video Review
      Review

      On Brendan Lorber’s If This Is Paradise Why Are We Still Driving

      December 12, 2019

      Review

      Review: The Way Cities Feel to Us Now by Nathaniel Kennon Perkins

      December 9, 2019

      Review

      Obsessive, Recursive Violence and Concentration: Charlene Elsby’s Hexis

      December 5, 2019

      Review

      EVERYTHING CAN GO/ ON THE GRILL: A Combined Review of Alissa Quart

      December 2, 2019

      Collaborative Review

      A Street Car Named Whatever

      February 22, 2016

      Collaborative Review

      Black Gum: A Conversational Review

      August 7, 2015

      Collaborative Review

      Lords of Waterdeep in Conversation

      February 25, 2015

      Collaborative Review

      MOUTH: EATS COLOR and the Devoration of Languages

      January 12, 2015

      Video Review

      Entropy’s Super Mario Level

      September 15, 2015

      Video Review

      Flash Portraits of Link: Part 7 – In Weakness, Find Strength

      January 2, 2015

      Video Review

      Basal Ganglia by Matthew Revert

      March 31, 2014

      Video Review

      The Desert Places by Amber Sparks and Robert Kloss, Illustrated by Matt Kish

      March 21, 2014

  • Small Press
    • Small Press

      Penteract Press

      December 10, 2019

      Small Press

      Game Over Books

      December 3, 2019

      Small Press

      Jamii Publishing

      November 19, 2019

      Small Press

      Elixir Press

      November 12, 2019

      Small Press

      Blasted Tree Press

      October 29, 2019

  • Where to Submit
  • More
    • Poetry
    • Interviews
    • Games
      • All Board Games Video Games
        Games

        Best of 2019: Video Games

        December 13, 2019

        Games

        Hunt A Killer, Earthbreak, and Empty Faces: Escapism for the Post-Truth Era

        September 21, 2019

        Board Games

        Ludic Writing: Lady of the West

        July 27, 2019

        Board Games

        Session Report: Paperback and Anomia

        July 27, 2019

        Board Games

        Ludic Writing: Lady of the West

        July 27, 2019

        Board Games

        Session Report: Paperback and Anomia

        July 27, 2019

        Board Games

        Ludic Writing: The Real Leeds Part 12 (Once in a Lifetime)

        November 10, 2018

        Board Games

        Ludic Writing: The Real Leeds Part 11 (Karma Police)

        November 3, 2018

        Video Games

        Best of 2019: Video Games

        December 13, 2019

        Video Games

        Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the Spirit of Generosity

        December 31, 2018

        Video Games

        Best of 2018: Video Games

        December 17, 2018

        Video Games

        Silent Hill Shattered Memories: Biography of a Place

        September 3, 2018

    • Food
    • Small Press Releases
    • Film
    • Music
    • Paranormal
    • Travel
    • Art
    • Graphic Novels
    • Comics
    • Current Events
    • Astrology
    • Random
  • RESOURCES
  • The Accomplices
    • THE ACCOMPLICES
    • Enclave
    • Trumpwatch
ArtComicsInterview

The New Comics: Nick Francis Potter

written by Guest Contributor September 29, 2015

Irregular Limbs (1)-2Irregular Limbs (1)-3Irregular Limbs (1)-4Irregular Limbs (1)-5Irregular Limbs (1)-6Irregular Limbs (1)-7Irregular Limbs (1)-8Irregular Limbs (1)-9Irregular Limbs (1)-10Irregular Limbs (1)-11Irregular Limbs (1)-12Irregular Limbs (1)-13Irregular Limbs (1)-14Irregular Limbs (1)-15

NICK FRANCIS POTTER is a writer and artist whose ongoing “Irregular Limbs” multimedia project has also appeared in NightBlock , Ninth Letter and The Collagist. He studies and teaches at the University of Missouri, and he can be found online at Big Gorgeous Jazz Machine. Nick would like to acknowledge and thank his wife and collaborator, Erin, for coloring this version of “Irregular Limbs”.

ON PROSE AND COMICStumblr_n5obqn6yIP1rrc6f2o1_500

I’ve been drawing since I was a kid, but I let myself lapse  sometime around college, when I got really interested in writing and prose of various types. It wasn’t until I met my wife, who was a fine arts major, that I started getting back into visual arts. I’d stopped drawing because I couldn’t draw what I wanted to draw, but I’ve since found a lot of artists who work within the boundaries of their skills in ways I think are really appealing. It made me want to go back and try that too.

I never felt a stigma against comics as a form, but I wasn’t sure that I could do it. I’d never taken any classes and had few friends who were interested in comics. They’re a lot of work, and more intense work in a lot of ways than prose writing,  at least for me. It takes more labor for me to make a comic, and it took a lot of effort to push myself in that direction. But I’m happy about it.

Prose and comics each have unique qualities. If I’m stuck and not writing in a mode that’s satisfying for me, I can try drawing and still feel like I’m productive, and vice versa. It’s a weird way of productive procrastination, to have dual media that work against each other, both practically and on the page.

ON POINT AND COUNTERPOINTpart2

“Irregular Limbs” is a long term project that contains prose and comics focused on the same ‘topic,’ for lack of a better word. It’s like Groundhog’s Day if it was written and directed by David Lynch, with characters and stories that repeat and mold in new ways. For example, there’s a prose short story that’s a counterpoint to the comic featured in Entropy, and it goes in a different direction and highlights different characters to a different outcome. I’m interested in playing the medias off each other, using the limb or appendage as a metaphor. Hopefully I’ll end up having a whole book, but also loose appendages that show up in a gallery piece or a zine, not bound within the book but connected in a way.

I have quite a few different narratives going, in terms of variations on these characters and rough arcing outlines. In planning, I’ve guessed at mediums for specific chapters, but that’s changed as I’ve gone forward. Some chapters have changed from prose to comics, and the prose shifts stylistically as well. That’s a great part of the project, having the two forms, but also styles within each form.

As a project, “Irregular Limbs” is fairly loose in a lot of ways. For me it’s not a story collection, but it’s not quite a novel. It’s exciting for me, but in terms of elucidating it for others, I’m not sure if I’m the best at it. I just try to work as hard as possible to complete things, to finish. I think there’s plenty of writers and comics makers who are far more talented than I am. I don’t see the project as something that’s easily marketed.

tumblr_ni2yfoBc7I1rrc6f2o1_1280ON WRITING AND READING

I try to read as extensively as I can. Reading seems far more important an activity to me than writing. Of course the two are also integrally related. I don’t think I’d ever have arrived at some of my own weird stories without being introduced to some of the bizarre work I’ve found through friends or magazines. And when I do find work I respect in a magazine or journal, that’s where I try to submit my own work.

As a project, “Irregular Limbs” has a variety of influences. Antoine Volodine, for one. Particularly Minor Angels and his book We Monks and Soldiers, written as Lutz Bassmann. I’ve also been really into Tin Can Forest—an amazing Canadian duo who make these really bizarre surrealist comics that I’m kind of obsessed with. If what I’m doing ends up anywhere close to the nexus between Volodine and Tin Can Forest, I’d be ecstatic.

Nick Francis Potter’s book New Animals, a collection of prose, comics, and hybrid texts, is forthcoming this fall from Subito Press.

vacation

 

Want to be considered for future installments of The New Comics? Send your work to Comics Curator Keith McCleary via the Entropy submissions page.

The New Comics: Nick Francis Potter was last modified: September 29th, 2015 by Guest Contributor
comicsmulti-formmultimedianick francis potterThe New comics
0 comment
0
Facebook Twitter Google + Pinterest
Avatar
Guest Contributor

Entropy posts are often submitted to us by our fantastic readers & guest contributors. We'd love to receive a contribution from you too. Submission Guidelines.

previous post
Goodmorning Menagerie
next post
SOO N For Entropy // Roast Potatoes For : Bub & Grandma’s, Andy Kadin

You may also like

Unconventional Ghosts: Playing with Forms in Fiction, A roundtable with Maria Romasco Moore, Nino Cipri, and Karin Tidbeck

January 11, 2019

Destory All Monsters: Jeff Jackon’s Love Letter to Rock-n-Roll

October 16, 2018

“What does the world hate more/than women/in public”: On Elaine Kahn and an Ode to Hannah Wilke

June 15, 2015

Sunday Lists: Top 3 (or Less) Artists’ Books

July 6, 2014
Facebook Twitter Instagram

Recent Comments

  • Incognito Lounger This is so much better than the other lists I've been raiding today. I'd add Zapruder's Fathers Day and BJ Soloy's Our Pornography and other disaster songs. Ariana Reines and Tommy Pico will save us...

    Best of 2019: Poetry Books & Poetry Collections ·  December 11, 2019

  • Simmons Buntin You missed a few over at Terrain.org... :-)

    Best of 2019: Favorite Poems Published Online ·  December 6, 2019

  • Ginger Lang Mairead, a heartfelt gift from you to all who read and share your piece, and peace. Thank you for being brave and vulnerable so others in need of healing can feel you reaching out to them. Thank you...

     The TO THE TEETH #4 ·  December 5, 2019

Featured Columns & Series

  • The Birds
  • Dinnerview
  • Sunday Entropy List
  • Variations on a Theme
  • WOVEN
  • BLACKCACKLE
  • Literacy Narrative
  • Mini-Syllabus
  • Their Days Are Numbered
  • On Weather
  • Disarticulations
  • Birdwolf
  • Session Report series
  • Comics I've Been Geeking Out On
  • Small Press Releases
  • Books I Hate (and Also Some I Like)
  • The Poetics of Spaces
  • Notes On Motherhood
  • 30 Years of Ghibli
  • Tales From the End of the Bus Line
  • YOU MAKE ME FEEL
  • Ludic Writing
  • The Talking Cure
  • Best of 2018
  • The Weird Interview
  • DRAGONS ARE REAL OR THEY ARE DEAD
  • Foster Care
  • Pop Talks
  • The Concept World is No Longer Operational
  • Splendid Grub
  • LEAKY CULTURE
  • Jem and the Holographic Feminisms
  • D&D with Entropy
  • Stars to Stories

Find Us On Facebook

Entropy
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram

©2019 The Accomplices LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Read our updated Privacy Policy.


Back To Top