A short comic comprising some of Vlad Niculescu's memories of Anthony Frost Bookshop, its closing in 2017 and the myriad ways in which bookstores bind us. Here is Alex Clapp's article in the Times Literary Supplement about the place. The sequential narrative traces the historical transformations of the locations which are home to Cărturești&friends as well as Anthony Frost Bookshop. Visual references range from Saul Steinberg's work to Iordan Chimet's Anthology of Innocence and Willy Pragher documentary photography.
It was important for me to bring together some of the people who have tied my ways to the sequential medium, so here are a few of them: Milos of Hardcomics and Aooleu! newspaper, Vlad of Cărturești&friends, Anamaria Pravicencu of Jumătatea Plină and Sâmbăta Sonoră, assoc. professor Mihaela Precup, Matei Branea and Ciubi. There are too many people to count, from the teams of Decât o Revistă, to Vice Romania and Scena9, every one of these links has brought me closer to visual narratives.
link to Romanian version is here, hope to have an English translation 🔜 https://issuu.com/sorivazelina/docs/frost_and_friends
