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Sol Nte
An experimental manga inspired by One Piece, Naruto, Demon Slayer, Attack on Titan, Mob Psycho 100, Chainsaw Man, Jujutsu Kaisen, Junji Ito and Harmony Korine.
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Really random experimental novel that attempts to capture the strangeness of skateboarding in a book.
A really short graphic novel about chess that isn't really about chess, but is about the weirdness of life itself.
A mostly wordless graphic novel riffing on classic children's english literature spat through the lens of counterculture and underground comix, where anthropomorphic animals have adventures in idyllic countryside, endless tea…
"Rolling nearside down the bump literature, music notation on the ledge, precipitory notes and noise, angular momentum of sound, graphic air, mutated comix, alt comics, time comics. Symphony orchestra of…
Like Noise Music, but comics! An excursion in avant-garde manga aesthetics, this graphic novel wordlessly weaves a surreal landscape of black and white horror. This book will appeal to fans…
"A simple tale of nothing much, with broken language and hurried dreams, these simple drawings turn the page" - Schlumper is nothing much, an ephemeral spirit across a sea of…
This is the first book in Sol Nte’s ‘Language Noise Literature Manifesto’ series where software is specially written to create books by iterative random recombination of words emotive to specific…
Sol Nte’s language noise cyberpunk novelette inspired by William Gibson, William Burroughs, Philip K. Dick, Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker, Roger Zelazny, John Brunner, J. G. Ballard, Philip Jose Farmer and…
Sol Nte’s experimental cutups western inspired by Zane Grey, JT Edson, Louis L'amour, Lobsang Rampa and William Burroughs: Of Deadwoods Jonas. Music playing in with beating him outside fitting died…
An experimental novelette by Sol Nte inspired by Surrealism, Fluxus, Dada, Oulipo and Cutups. The story begins how one man role in the with someone giving ghost town. The admirier…
Sol Nte presents an incredibly short book using the idea of presenting the interaction between the history of counterculture, experimental writing, fantasy role-playing games and comics. This book is inspired…
Sol Nte’s multiple plot surrealist novella of meandering ideas, faux fairy tales, plagiarised victoriana, cut-up texts, surreal stories of the sublime ridiculous, movie concept sketches and more.
Artist’s Role-Playing Game by Sol Nte and inspired by Dungeons and Dragons, Warhammer, Pathfinder, Games Workshop, Final Fantasy, Tolkien, Middle Earth, Hobbits, Orcs, Wizards, Shannara and the history of fantasy…
Experimental heta-uma style comic zine inspired by Gary Panter, the zines of Mark Gonzales and Harmony Korine, Daniel Clowes, Blutch, Kramers Ergot, Yamantaka Eye and the Boredoms, Fantagraphics, Garo Magazine…
Another short artist’s book/comic/zine by Sol Nte about creativity in everyday life, inspired by the zines of Mark Gonzales and Harmony Korine.
Riding over the bones of VHS, nostalgia, the dream as neon, no stars pere lachaise kickflip. Another velvet gentleman, born to lose Lautrec, ontology of hyper pop kawaii dustbowls. Gundam…
Short artist’s book/comic/zine about creativity in everyday life, inspired by the zines of Mark Gonzales.
In Loving Memory of the Self is Sol Nte’s first work of experimental fiction: Consisting of a jarring blend of plagiarised victoriana, william burroughs style cut-ups, self-help texts, snippets of…
A short book of anti-joke single panel gag cartoons presented as fine art. The book is inspired by The New Yorker, Richard Prince, David Shrigley, Whitney Darrow Jr, Saul Steinberg…
Situated somewhere between indie comics, lowbrow art and underground comics. Sol Nte's third comic is a graphic novel that criss-crosses various artistic styles to tell a story about a comic…
A set of humourous dialogues presented as short stories to be read as quickly as possible. A set of "quick hits" of literature. The literary potential of nonsense as a…
An experimental novel using the "Random Edge" avant writing technique where a normal body of text is cut off randomly at the edges to generate new fragmented texts, phrases and…
A small stylish book of short stories, drawings, conversations, rules for a fantasy role-playing game and notes on manifesting, pop music and how to start a prank religion! This book…
Originally thrown out into random corners of the internet as single png files, this volume collects together a handful of the Deathbum77 cartoons, weird computer-generated webcomics that build a sense…
A small zine of far out drawings in full colour. This will appeal to fans of zines and alternative comics in general and is inspired by artists such as Ron…
A random collection of experimental comic pages with an underground indie zine minicomics flavour: Sol Nte's Crayonpunk Comics Zine will appeal to fans of Kramers Ergot, The Ganzfeld, Highwater Books…
Short comic book zine composed of random wordless comic segments inspired by the work of Chris Ware, with a focus on variations in panel arrangement. The narrative is propelled by…
counterculture: kid's comics, beatniks, CND, hippies, rock posters, underground comics, punk art, new wave mini comics, zines, graphic novels, mtv cartoons, graffiti! Sol Nte's continuing exploration of "the Book as…
A wordless experimental avant-garde manga: Set in a fantasy world of knights and monsters, a lone knight undertakes a quest for a king who resides solely in his memory of…
A short experimental pop culture cut-up text produced for the Next Five Minutes Festival.
A simple book of 84 Drawings inspired by the legendary New Yorker artist and cartoonist Saul Steinberg
A short, mostly wordless, graphic novel about freedom and counterculture inspired by Harmony Korine, Lynda Barry, Mark Beyer, Chester Brown, Jeffrey Brown, John Porcellino, Ivan Brunetti, Daniel Clowes, Robert Crumb…
A book of notes, drawings and random thoughts on the nature of contemporary art and music, made during the Covid Pandemic.
An experimental novel by Sol Nte featuring extensive use of repetition, cut-up texts and AI generated narratives. Inspired by Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, William Burroughs, Andre Breton and Gilles Deleuze
Pharaoh Sol: 10 years on the run from everyday life is a selection of images, clothing designs and sketchbook pages from Sol Nte’s 3 year residency in Brussels, Belgium from…
"Sol Nte's ideological graphic novel toolbox for aspiring countercultural heroes inspired by the residents, gary panter, caroliner rainbow, the boredoms, fort thunder, neutral milk hotel and fancy lad skateboards." -…
A mecha graphic novel where mankind is merged with machine in endless battle downtown. This book will appeal to fans of experimental avant-garde comics and manga and like many of…
Trash battle comic inspired by early nineties Image comics.
Crayon Punk Blues is the exhibition catalogue for Nte's 2023 exhibition at the Grand Palais in Tervuren. Structure is time, and meaning a false friend.
Sol Nte's Surrealistic Organs comic zine takes readers through a fantastic landscape delineated in black and white line-work. Its wordless panels reveal a surreal fantasy story and a social allegory…
Sol Nte wroteExperimental Music and Free Improvisationto be conceived as a follow-up toExperimental Music: Cage and Beyondby Michael Nyman andExperimental Music Since 1970by Jennie…
