MONSTER COMICS

GIANT TECHNOLOGICAL TENTACLES ARE ASSIMILATING HUMANITY! ENTER THE SUPERHERO, SAMURAI, WITCHDOCTOR & MUSICIANS…BUT IS IT TOO LATE?! The city is a giant gear, propelled by all the different kinds of people, creatures, and strange occurrences moving through it. Amidst the chaos MONSTERS, ROBOTS, CARS & COMMUTERS attempt to co-exist in a mechanically diabolic orchestral frenzy. Giant Technological Tentacles are annihilating the denizens at an inhuman pace and all systems of mass communication have been corrupted by a villainous business demigod. When a tiny hero attempts to retaliate, the metropolis rises against the protagonist, annihilating the individual! Welcome to the CITY of GEARS! Part fantastical, part autobiographical and completely insane, “HEY APATHY!” is a 13 issue mini series featuring a cross-genre anthology of fables all told from the perspective of a young street artist sitting in the middle of the madness. The objective of my monster comics is to continually explore the abstracted themes of the “HEY APATHY!” ink drawings, and to document the personal, social, political, and unusual experiences of my life as an artist & street performer. 32 PAGES, B & W, SIGNED LIMITED EDITIONS $10

INK DRAWINGS

THE CITY IS A GIANT GEAR PROPELLED BY ALL THE DIFFERENT MONSTERS, PEOPLE, AND STRANGE OCCURANCES THAT MOVE THROUGH IT! The “HEY APATHY!” artworks (Jan 2001-Jan. 2008) include hundreds of black & white cartoon style ink drawings. The drawings range in size from postcards to giant wall murals and vary in complexity from crude to microscopic. Each drawing is made with black India ink on white paper, as a single study, start to finish, without the safety of preliminary sketches, and absolutely no corrections are ever made. The “HEY APATHY!” images continually investigate and reinvent ideologies in an ongoing examination of , people, monsters, systems of communication, and the terrifying embodiment of the metropolis. The initial drawings, an extensive collection of simplistic hieroglyphics, depict the city as a cold, lifeless, machine comprised of anonymous crowds and tomb-like towers, accompanied by horrific images of apocalyptic forces eradicating the landscapes. The artworks deconstruct expressions of alienation and the illusion of conformity, while simultaneously offering the viewer a stern, yet optimistic, warning towards our future. In each of the subsequent artistic investigations, the drawings, the artist, and the spectator, are pulled further into the city as part of a mythological quest to identify the surroundings. The entire first volume of “HEY APATHY!” comics and art including 13 unique investigations, each examining the subject from a new perspective and through a variety of experimental drawing & presentation techniques, reads like an unconscious narrative, slowly revealing the true nature of the city, the artist, and possibly that of the audience itself.