For those interested in the physical history of John Persons Comics, the market has exploded in recent years.
Title: The Cartography of the Ordinary: How John Persons Redefined Minimalist Storytelling Date of Report: October 26, 2023 Subject: Analysis of the "Personsian" aesthetic (1978–Present) john persons comics
You cannot walk through the artist alley of a major comic convention without seeing the shadow of John Persons. Artists like Emma Ríos, Daniel Warren Johnson, and even mainstream cover artists have adopted his fractured panel layouts and emotional abstraction. For those interested in the physical history of
Indie publisher Hollow Press recently released an anthology titled Nine Kinds of Quiet, which was explicitly a tribute to the Persons aesthetic. The introduction read: "We are all just trying to draw the silence between screams, like John taught us." Indie publisher Hollow Press recently released an anthology