Coin-Op 漫画选集：1997-2017

我应该意识到他们是商业插画家——他们的作品具有所有的特征。漫画面板的打磨、构造、架构。这一切都体现了对设计的深刻洞察，对设计的深切关注，对故事的精准犀利的讲述。

Coin-Op Comics Anthology: 1997-2017 collects the first twenty years of short comics work by siblings Maria Hoey and Peter Hoey. The siblings live on opposite ends of the American continent and work together, writing and drawing on the same digital pages somewhat simultaneously. Some pieces were co-written by Charles Paul Freund, and the song lyrics in particular seem to be mostly from Freund.

Coin-Op Comics Anthology: 1997-2017 收集了玛丽亚·霍伊 (Maria Hoey) 和彼得·霍伊 (Peter Hoey) 姐弟前二十年的短篇漫画作品。兄弟姐妹生活在美洲大陆的两端，一起工作，在同一个数字页面上同时书写和绘画。有些作品是由查尔斯·保罗·弗罗因德共同创作的，尤其是歌词似乎大部分来自弗罗因德。

The book is structured in a reverse order, starting with issue five of Coin-Op, which the Hoeys self-publish. Before that are the earlier stories from Blab! The stories are presented in a quirky, non-chronological order for a particular reading experience.

这本书的结构是相反的，从霍伊夫妇自行出版的《Coin-Op》第五期开始。在此之前是 Blab 的早期故事！这些故事以一种奇特的、非时间顺序的方式呈现，以提供特定的阅读体验。

The Hoeys are successful illustrators who also make comics. As Monte Beauchamp, who “discovered” the Hoeys for comics as editor of Blab! in the ’90s, points out in a text appreciation in the book, comics are vastly less remunerative than illustration. He does a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation of just how much money the Hoeys could have made with the same number of pictures for commercial clients.

霍伊夫妇是成功的插画家，同时也制作漫画。蒙特·波尚 (Monte Beauchamp) 是《Blab!》的编辑，“发现”了 Hoeys 漫画。书中的文字赏析中指出，在90年代，漫画的报酬远远低于插画。他快速粗略地计算了一下霍伊夫妇为商业客户拍摄相同数量的照片可以赚多少钱。

The work has all of the hallmarks of commercial illustration: the polish, the construction, the architecture of the comics panels. It all shows a deep insight into design and a deep concern for telling stories precisely and sharply.

该作品具有商业插画的所有特征：润色、结构、漫画面板的结构。这一切都展现了对设计的深刻洞察以及对准确而尖锐地讲述故事的深切关注。

Some of the stories are straightforward narratives, but many are more dreamlike, or design-driven. There’s a series of illustrated “articles” about jazz musicians – all of them, I think, entirely fictional – and some pieces that seem to be mostly song lyrics (original, I think) turned into visual art. There’s another series about two sad-sack characters, anthropomorphic dogs or dog-headed men, named Saltz and Pepz who get into various scrapes during what seems to be the Great Depression. The Hoeys also have a few stories in a twelve-panel grid, showing the same wide scene each page, as big events crash or break across multiple panels and characters.

有些故事是直截了当的叙述，但许多故事更加梦幻，或者是设计驱动的。有一系列关于爵士音乐家的插图“文章”——我认为所有这些文章完全是虚构的——还有一些似乎主要是歌词（我认为是原创的）的作品变成了视觉艺术。还有另一个系列讲述了两个悲伤的人物，拟人化的狗或狗头人，名叫萨尔茨和佩普兹，他们在似乎是大萧条期间陷入了各种困境。霍伊夫妇还在十二个面板的网格中写了一些故事，每页都展示了相同的广阔场景，因为重大事件在多个面板和角色之间发生冲突或中断。

Many of the stories are set in the vague past, what I think of as the ’30s or the ’50s – not during The War, not during anything major or notable – with boxy cars and people in constructed suits and all the furniture of a world that’s familiar and stable and entirely gone.

许多故事都发生在模糊的过去，我认为是 30 年代或 50 年代——不是在战争期间，也不是在任何重大或值得注意的事情期间——有四四方方的汽车和穿着西装的人们以及一个那个熟悉、稳定的世界已经完全消失了。

Even the pieces I call straightforward are very Hoey-esque: designed, often to the point of being schematic, telling stories as much in the ways the panels are laid out on the page as in the things that happen in those panels. None of it is obvious; none of their work is ever obvious, I’m coming to believe.

即使是我所说的直截了当的作品也非常霍伊式的：设计通常达到了示意性的程度，以面板在页面上的布局方式和这些面板中发生的事情一样讲述故事。这些都不是显而易见的；我开始相信，他们的工作都不是显而易见的。

There’s a lot of depth and interest in Coin-Op: a lot of time and thought went into every panel here. Even the wordless, imagistic stories – which, as a Word Person, I had to admit I didn’t really “get” – are full of wonders and surprises. The Hoeys are as interested in how they tell stories, how they present moments visually, how those visually feel, as they are in the story being told.

Coin-Op 有很多深度和兴趣：这里的每个小组都投入了大量的时间和思想。即使是无言的、意象性的故事——作为一个文字人，我不得不承认我并没有真正“理解”——也充满了奇迹和惊喜。霍伊夫妇对他们如何讲故事、如何以视觉方式呈现瞬间以及这些视觉感受如何感兴趣，就像他们对所讲述的故事一样感兴趣。

They’re illustrators. It’s what they do. And they do it really well.

他们是插画家。这就是他们所做的。他们做得非常好。