Flock of Dreamers: An Anthology of Dream Inspired Comics

by Saša Rakezić (Editor), Bob Kathman (Editor), Jim Woodring

Lay down, spin your eyeballs back into your brain and get ready for Flock of Dreamers, 20 tales from the subconscious by an international cast of comics creators. Experience the REM-state visions of R. Crumb as he takes you for a ride on the helicopter girl. Get glory-poisoned with Jim Woodring's (Frank in the River, Jim) meticulous soul portraits. Dodge sniper's bullets in the Bosnia of Rick Veitch's (Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend, Brat Pack) mind. Discover what happens in the mind of Rolling Stone's Hot Cartoonist of 1996, Pat Moriarity, when he sleeps. These and the sixteen other oneiric tales in this book of dreams will astonish you, mystify you, enchant you and entertain you -- the only thing they won't do is put you to sleep!

Dream or nightmare / Thierry Guitard --
R. Crumb's dream diary / Robert Crumb --
Now there came a time / Jim Woodring --
Zoo / Danijel Žeželj and Jessica Lurie --
8 February '95 / David Lasky --
Broken lines / Eric Thériault --
Dream? / Kjartan Arnórsson --
Grapes for Aaron / Wostok --
4 real, recurring childhood dreams / Bob Kathman --
Sleep sleep sleep / Lee Kennedy --
Bedbugs / Ashley Holt --
A sleepyhead tale / Jeremy Eaton --
No luck duck / Jim Shaw --
Messages from the spangle tellurium! / Luke Walsh --
July 15, 1992 / Chris Lanier --
Three dreams / Vladan Radovanović --
Dreamworks / Alexsandar Zograf --
Climbing / Pat Moriarity --
Doppelgänger! / Rick Veitch --
I--
/ Francesca Ghermandi and Massimo Semerano --
Sufferin' succotash / Chance Fiveash.

Genres: Comics

88 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Saša Rakezić (born 1963 in Pančevo, Serbia) better known by his pen name Aleksandar Zograf, is a Serbian cartoonist.

See also: Aleksandar Zograf

Reviews

[StrictlySequential · Rating 4 out of 5]

Acute dreamers from Baltimorph and Serbia, who are the two that you see self-drawn directly below the title on the cover, became pen-pals during the Serbian war era and realized that they both wanted to create something like this so they compiled 1-7 page chapters of single or multiple dreams from a total of 24 creators from 7 countries! I found it interesting that this was published by Kitchen Sink when 5 or 6 (Woodring?) were from Seattle- the seat of Fantagraphicsville.

Dreams -being an intensely personal phenomenon- made me curious about the creators. What annoyed me was that there weren't tiny/brief footnotes with the stories or clues in the biographies to add some context to the material and explain things that their dreams make you wonder For example- did the one guy not eat chicken in real life? Was he ever in the military? There are too many of these nagging questions scattered throughout the anthology.

The biographies should've been connected to the chapters but I guess they only wanted to use two pages at the end instead of 12 before/after throughout. If that was the case, I would have built them into the table of contents because flipping forward (a few didn't sign their work) AND backward was tedious.