Qviet is a collection of doodlesque, single-page comics primarily focused on imaginings of the body.  Works of this nature are normally of brief duration, and take a unified approach.  Burkholder has held out for a grander vision in Qviet; its voluminous container allowing for experimentation.  Within the 248 pages of this softcover collection just published by Minneapolis-based 2D Cloud, A. (aka Andy/Andrew) Burkholder has applied a widely (and wildly) inventive series of approaches to depicting and delineating human sexual relations, responses, fantasies, daydreams, compulsions, delusions and other imaginings.  Linking all these -- often explicit -- renderings is their implicit relationship to the autonomous drawing impulse.  As such, all the comics on display here can be classified as surrealist in their basis and aims.  Many of Burkholder's strips particularly bring to mind the absurd spirit of René Magritte --  but, here allowed a sexual explicity unimaginable to the 20th century Belgian surrealist.  There is humor here; visual puns and slapstick sequences.  There are also disturbing and unsettling juxtopositions; clean line and dirty line.  Metamorphoses of sexual objects is the dominant trope.  Expect the unexpected.  In sum, readers will emerge from Qviet to likely find themselves seeing, thinking and imagining in unexpected ways and new combinations; in the process re-evaluting their assumptions about the relationship between the pen and the penis...  

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