Like Einspruch's work, Easts is directly linked to his experience - he takes weird walks, then translates them into pages of drawings. They're kind of comics but kind of not.
His "Trains Are...Mint" series is great, the his recent larger works, "Proper Go Well High" and "Berlin and That" are wonderful too. His work is a cross between language and experience, sometimes we're walking with him and sometimes we're deciphering some arcane code about something. In the crowded world of comics, this work is fresh, original, and beautifully eccentric.
For the show we have some original pages - they're big! - and copies of a bunch of books for sale. I wish we could have him come here and do a book about walking around Charlottesville.
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