About the Book
Things You Carry is a visually stunning wordless mediation on isolation and loss.
[I] would love to see more creators try and limit themselves this way, with no words and no facial expressions. It really forces Stall to draw environments that have emotions. -- Inkstuds
[Things You Carry] possesses an intrinsic value best to keep close at hand, a meditation ... on comics -- a comic's comic.-- Comics Bulletin
Pieces of paper in the shape of the letters "N O" fall from the sky. Upon landing, these slips of paper letters spell out "NOW" and like the snapping of fingers, the true story begins. Things You Carry is a visually stunning wordless mediation on isolation and loss.
Vincent Stall runs the creative gamut, from the utmost professional to the highly personal. Acting as Art Director for Minneapolis design firms such as Campbell Mithun and Riley Hayes, he moved into the academy as an instructor at Miami Ad School in Minneapolis and then as a visiting artist in the Comic Art program at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. In 2007, he co-founded Puny Entertainment, a convergence media studio with a range of impressive clients, such as Yo Gabba Gabba, Target, General Mills, Cartoon Network, Scholastic and IFC. Two years later in 2009, Puny moved and expanded to include the Pink Hobo gallery, with Vincent acting as curator. Stall has most recently moved on to become a Creative Director at Digitas Health.
Vincent's cartoonist alter-ego, King Mini, has released numerous well-received and superbly produced minicomics, such as Robot Investigator, Everyone Takes a Turn, Passenger Side, Attitude Lad, and Jetsum, amongst others. In addition, King Mini's work has appeared in comics anthologies like Rosetta, Negative Burn, Murder Can be Fun, C'est Bon, and Meathaus as well as graphic design publications such as Graphis, Print, and CA. His work can also be found gracing gallery walls, often in the form of masterful screen-prints and plastered to the insides of rock clubs around Minneapolis for local to creating promotional art & design for Minneapolis-based foodie collectives like Gastro Non Grata..
About the Author: Vincent Stall runs the creative gamut, from the utmost professional to the highly personal. Acting as Art Director for Minneapolis design firms such as Campbell Mithun and Riley Hayes, he moved into the academy as an instructor at Miami Ad School in Minneapolis and then as a visiting artist in the Comic Art program at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. In 2007, he co-founded Puny Entertainment, a convergence media studio with a range of impressive clients, such as Yo Gabba Gabba, Target, General Mills, Cartoon Network, Scholastic and IFC. Two years later in 2009, Puny moved and expanded to include the Pink Hobo gallery, with Vincent acting as curator. Stall has most recently moved on to become a Creative Director at Digitas Health.
Vincent's cartoonist alter-ego, King Mini, has released numerous well-received and superbly produced minicomics, such as Robot Investigator (adapted to a full-length book published by Uncivilized Books), Everyone Takes a Turn, Passenger Side, Attitude Lad, and Jetsum, amongst others. In addition, King Mini's work has appeared in comics anthologies like Rosetta, Negative Burn, Murder Can be Fun, C'est Bon, and Meathaus as well as graphic design publications such as Graphis, Print, and CA. His work can also be found gracing gallery walls, often in the form of masterful screen-prints and plastered to the insides of rock clubs around Minneapolis for local to creating promotional art & design for Minneapolis-based foodie collectives like Gastro Non Grata.
