- 1/5
Need More Love
Clube do Inferno,
2014
- 16 pages
- 11.5 x 21 cm
- black digital printing
- saddle stitch binding
- back cover by Rudolfo
out of stock"Need More Love is a feverous segue to 2013’s Lovebirds. If the S&M apparatus and the XTube references in the earlier zine could be perceived as commoditized cultural expressions, Astromanta takes an inner turn and explores the turmoil within his main character, going through a bender that harkens to a deep disconnect. Sex no longer appears as an aesthetical pleasure derived from choreographies and body stats, but rather as a gross way out of love’s complications and demands. Consequently, the art is populated with mistakes, as Astromanta puts aside the digital tools and works with pencil, brush, and china ink. The warm color of Lovebirds becomes a cerebral mint green, and the title is borrowed from Aline Kominsky-Crumb’s Need More Love, a book Astromanta never actually read, but whose title suggests the emotional thirst he was looking to portray. The narrower format also adjusts to this idea."