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Tangled Tales


Ever felt your inner world isn't moving in simple straight lines? That’s the premise of pioneering interactive comic Tangled Tales.

Six people enter a building, each with a job to do, their own workplace and technology. Yet things are subtly changing, shimmering, melting and tangling. Wires are crossed, equipment fails, complaints are received. Roles become uncertain, identities blur, realities fracture. Can any of them escape the chaos to reach a positive revelation?

Graham Johnstone’s Tangled Tales is a series of six times six panel comics able to be read in thousands of permutations. To be exact 46,656 or 6 to the power of 6.
Drawn in an elegant blend of cartoon, diagram, and abstraction, visual elements recur in hypnotic variations, giving every permutation a compelling logic, drawing the reader into the heart of these troubles. Underneath its unique form, Tangled Tales is a heartfelt evocation of inner struggle, offset by ironic humour and clever visuals.
Originally hand-made by the artist in tiny editions, this pioneering work is finally available in ebook form with the full original interactivity.

‘Tangled Tales is a beguiling sequence of poetic strips and perhaps the earliest example I have encountered of its type: the rigorous permutational structure… yields dreamy, seemingly chance-based results’.

​- 
Matt Madden, author of 99 Ways to Tell a Story, and member of Oubapo, Workshop for Potential Comics.


Tangled Tales

All original Images copyright Graham Johnstone, or, where applicable, their respective creators. 
  • Landing Page
  • Francis Bacon
  • Uccello
  • Vermeer
  • Tangled Tales
  • The Curse of the Yellow Book
    • Introduction (1912)
    • More Pages
    • A Found Object
    • The Intermediate Functionary
    • The Book and the Curse
    • Synopsis
    • Dead Trees >
      • Dead Trees cover gallery
      • Sample Issue
      • Contributors
      • The Library (complete)
    • New >
      • Chemistry
  • More
    • The Chimera Tree
    • Reviews
    • Reviews - More
    • Dead Trees Lucky Bag
    • The Eyes of the Artists >
      • A Different Story
      • From Dead Trees >
        • Home
        • Contact Me
  • Rare
    • Create / Destroy
    • Seen From Here
    • Dead Trees (from 'The Outsider') >
      • More on Dead Trees (from 'The Outsider')
    • For Films
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    • Realism
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