Before I get into this… Chip Coffey of Psychic Kids and Paranormal State, A&E is the Guest Draw for Sunday! This is a really cute comic… I think you’re gonna like it!
Origami Comics by Ken Wong
I met Ken Wong at Comic Con NYC by virtue of Twitter Pal @SurfsideJack who I ran into on my comic reCONnaissance. I was completely taken by his work as it plays into my 3-D tendencies… I remember resisting the 2 dimensional field by creating sculpture out of my work in lithography class in college. Pushing the creative envelope has been a pastime of mine. To find this in Ken Wong’s work was refreshing.
Ken takes the sequential cartoon format and twists it into working sculptural comics. It’s a new twist on the printed form many feel is dying in the comic world. The advent of webcomics and digital this-and-that has put the kibosh on the physical comic book.
One might say the physical comic is giving up the ghost and going internet, E-Book etc… Not for Ken, he diligently hand forms his work into little masterpieces of humor information. It is up to the reader to unfold what lies within.
“Our strongest argument in favor of printed comics was that they offered readers a physical/kinesthetic experience that webcomics could never duplicate; readers could bend, fold, tear or otherwise manipulate the comics in ways that are impossible to duplicate on screen,” says Ken.
I agree wholeheartedly with that. I like to read in bed. There is no way I want a glowing screen in my face before I hit the hay. I see enough of it during the day and prefer the tactile process of turning pages of something that isn’t emitting electronic vibrations. Books have a feel all there own. As long as there are people who like to touch and feel objects, we will have books and, in Ken’s case, origami comics.
Pandora’s Box debuted at 2008 M0CCA Art Festival in 2008. He has since created several other origami works: Schrodinger’s Cat and Flexigon!. You can find these on his website: http://www.k-wong.com
Pandora's Box by Ken Wong
Schrodinger’s Cat, by Ken Wong. 
