Abstract
ABSTRACT Patrick Kyle cultivates unfamiliar forms of pleasure in his comics, which often contain unconventional or experimental approaches to page layout, figuration, and the representation of space. The frustration of more familiar pleasures is offset by the facility of his cartooning, characterised by fresh negotiations between figuration and abstraction: his work takes as a point of departure the tension between symbolic and iconic representation that is inherent in cartooning as a form. The novel compositions of Kyle’s stories amount to a campaign of formal defamiliarization, which demands a certain degree of activity from the reader but does not risk narrative incoherence. His formal interventions frustrate without overwhelming, prompting the reader from passivity to activity and suggesting new avenues of pleasure.
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