Scaffold

Scaffold I-XXII & XXIII-XLIV

Author	V. A. Graham & J. A. Eisenhower
Language	English
Publisher	self-published (Most Ancient)
City	Oakland
Date	2012-2015
Pages	16, 16
Format	21.6 x 23.5 cm
Fabrication	Digital printing, silkscreen covers, handbound
E-book	PDF

Graphically, Scaffold is a strange object. The pages of the series' books are entirely composed of different sets of quasi-architectural formations and various sets of unfolding landscapes mostly depicted frontally. The sequence follows an implicit, oulipian rule that the two artists agreed upon: no world location can ever be revisited or depicted again once it is left. They manifest the artists' desire to produce a system for conveying movement through sets of fixed structures where storytelling, consisting mostly in commonplace dialogues, is just a byproduct of these rigid superstructures. Scaffold reads like a post-human narrative; the reader is left to contemplate something similar to the sidescrolling of a platform video game. No main characters are present. No action takes place. Scaffold thematizes the narrative impact of the background layer. It is a demonstration of comics' intermedial referential capacities in regards to other media, here video games.