Into the Cosmos – Stathis Tsemberlidis
Into the Cosmos: Sci-Fi Illustrations and a Comic by Stathis Tsemberlidis / ISBN 9781957625096 / a 64-page paperback with flaps, 6 x 9 inches, published in August 2024 by 50 Watts Books. [UK customers: Decadence Comics will have copies for sale in a couple weeks — check here.]
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This book collects illustrations Tsemberlidis made for recent Danish editions of Solaris by Stanislaw Lem and 2001: A Space Odyssey and Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. It also features the comic Protoconscious.
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Stathis Tsemberlidis is a visual artist and co-founder of the Decadence Comics art collective that began in 2003 together with artist Lando. He has co-edited 11 issues of the science fiction comic anthology Decadence as well as publishing his own comics and books under the same imprint.
He works within a wide range of media such as film and animation, exploring the boundaries between linear and nonlinear storytelling. In his work he merges the scientific with the mystical and the symbolic with the subconscious mind. His influences range from sci-fi literature and film to philosophy, politics, and science. Most recently he has been working with a team on a video game that will further explore themes and worlds from Decadence.
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“Tsemberlidis’s work is a yearning for transcendence and a greater understanding of our relationship to the worlds that surround us, both inner and outer . . . [his] restless and pointillistic penwork evokes the razor sharp clarity of detail familiar to anyone who’s ever taken psychedelics.”–Mat Colegate, The Comics Journal
“Tsemberlidis’s stories hint at a sort of transcendence-truth-destruction, a hallucinogenic shedding of physical form which is as beautiful as it is violent . . . Decadence and their focus on the abstraction of bodies is a genre of comic books unto themselves.”–Tom Baker, Broken Frontier
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Want to place a wholesale order? You can find most 50 Watts publications on Faire, and/or you can email will AT 50wattsbooks.com for a full list (I distribute a few books not on Faire).
