Slow Wave
Encyclopedia
Slow Wave is a weekly dream
-based comic strip
by Jesse Reklaw
. It has been syndicated to alternative newspapers around the U.S. since 1995, and also appears online.
-like humor." The strip's name refers to the EEG
rhythms of REM sleep.
As of 2009, Reklaw has introduced continuity into the strip, with characters encountering situations based on the dreams submitted by the readers. Situations introduced in one episode sometimes persist into the next. The strip is also now drawn as four panels arranged horizontally, rather than as four panels on two rows.
The anthology Dreamtoons collects 109 episodes from the first five years of the strip.
Dream
Dreams are successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. The content and purpose of dreams are not definitively understood, though they have been a topic of scientific speculation, philosophical intrigue and religious...
-based comic strip
Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....
by Jesse Reklaw
Jesse Reklaw
Jesse Reklaw is an American cartoonist and painter, author of the syndicated dream-based comic strip Slow Wave.-Biography:...
. It has been syndicated to alternative newspapers around the U.S. since 1995, and also appears online.
Description
Reklaw describes the strip as "a collective dream diary authored by people from around the world." Readers submit their dreams to the artist, usually by E-mail, and are credited as co-authors of the resulting cartoon. Reklaw illustrates each dream in four panels, paring down the dreamer's commentary to a few sentences. Reklaw has said he likes dreams because they have "their own logic and a natural dadaDada
Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a...
-like humor." The strip's name refers to the EEG
Electroencephalography
Electroencephalography is the recording of electrical activity along the scalp. EEG measures voltage fluctuations resulting from ionic current flows within the neurons of the brain...
rhythms of REM sleep.
As of 2009, Reklaw has introduced continuity into the strip, with characters encountering situations based on the dreams submitted by the readers. Situations introduced in one episode sometimes persist into the next. The strip is also now drawn as four panels arranged horizontally, rather than as four panels on two rows.
The anthology Dreamtoons collects 109 episodes from the first five years of the strip.
Collections
- Dreamtoons. Shambhala Press, 2000. ISBN 1-57062-573-5
- The Night Of Your Life. Dark Horse PressDH Press-Titles:* Aliens* Dracula: Asylum* Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Volume 1 The Lost Memory* Hipira* Kong: King of Skull Island* Predator* Scarface: The Beginning * Vampire Hunter D series-External links:* *...
2008. ISBN 9781595821836
External links
- Slow Wave (official website)
- "Oakland cartoonist finds a dreamy way to live: He illustrates readers' visions in 'Slow Wave'" (San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco Chroniclethumb|right|upright|The Chronicle Building following the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake|1906 earthquake]] and fireThe San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California, but distributed throughout Northern and Central California,...
, August 15, 2003) - "Dreamweaver: Jesse Reklaw" (Wizarduniverse.com, August 11, 2006)