$11.95
Maggie Umber
52 pages
6 in x 6 in
full color offset
Time Capsule is a cache of sketchbook drawings, animals, and insects. Letterforms are treated with a casual randomness, punctuating a non-linear narrative. This is a book of beautiful, ambiguous visual poetry and questions.
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Awards
Time Capsule made Rob Kirby's Rob’s Top 30 Comics and Comics-related Things of 2015.
Blurbs
Maggie Umber's intimate drawings evoke a sense that life on earth, no
matter how microscopic, can be immensely beautiful and complex.
— Jason Murphy
Reviews
Time Capsule is almost wordless, with the few passages that contain
words functioning more as poetic framing devices or just lush
expressions of a human trying to deal with the confusion of existence.
Throughout the book there are letters and numbers rendered as drawings
that become decorative design elements on the page, and though they
occasionally remind me of where we came from, they also make me think of
code, as if in Umber’s words, she is seeking an “innate algorithm [that]
breaks down the world hungrily.” It’s this revolving door of collecting
and processing with no ultimate sense to come from the endeavor that I
find both mysterious and compelling.
—
The Comics Journal
Snapshots of moments that would be filler in a nature documentary but
that, when collected and cataloged together, delve into the intimacy of
those moments and the complexity of animalistic relationships we can
never fully understand.
—
Shawn Starr