Cover, Cover, image source: Private, © Ayelet Ben Dor

Notes

The book is in Hebrew, comes with an attached English translation

Publisher Note

“Brandy and the Psychedelic Mold” is a 112 pages comic, drawn in black pens on A4 paper (210x297 mm / 8.3x11.7 inches).
The book follows a little dog’s psychedelic trip around the streets of Tel-Aviv’s central market, in parallel to the journey of a woman who’s anxiously searching for the tripping dog.
At the same time, the woman who lives with Brandy gradually concludes she has to go outside and look for her lost dog. She is walking the same streets Brandy is passing while her mind is looping with anxious thoughts. She sees Brandy’s black shape in every shadow, consoling herself with the thought that “he always comes back”.

The drawing style varies throughout the book and features homages to Kazimir Malevich, Umberto Boccioni, Marcel Duchamp, Alfred Hitchcock & Robert Boyle, Harvey Kurtzman, traditional Jewish Ketubahs, 19th century sci-fi drawings, Louis Wain, Byzantine art and more. I’ve experimented and learned a lot about comics-making while working on this story and these references helped me understand how to depict movement, create time-based scenes, set an atmosphere and build compositions.

Artists’ Book

Brandy and the Psychedelic Mold

by Ayelet Ben Dor

Publisher self-published
Release Place Tel Aviv, Israel
Edition 1st edition
Release Date 29th March 2022
Credits
Designer: Field Day Studio
Printer: A.R. Print
Artist: Ayelet Ben Dor
Printrun 500
Identifiers
ISBN-13: 978-965-599-945-7
Inscription signed
Original Price 25.00 EUR
Work  
Subform Graphic Novel
Genre/Content Form Fictional Comics
Topics Anxiety, Dogs & Humans, Getting Lost, Journey, Psychedelia, Urban Life
Themes Love, Search, Terror, Dream-State, Hallucinations
Methods Ink Drawing, Pen Drawing
Language Hebrew
Work Creation Date 2019 – 2022
Format Soft Cover
Binding Perfect Binding
Dimensions 21.0 × 29.7 cm
Weight 340 gram
Pages 112
Content Drawings
Technique Black And White Offset Litho
Color 3, Pantone
Material 300g cardboard
Technique Offset

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