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MONSTER COMICS & ART by Canadian Artist Mike Parsons

“HEY APATHY!” is an ongoing artistic investigation into the metropolis, people, monsters, and the mechanics of being. In the earliest comics & artworks (2001) the city is announced as an ominous gear, propelled by an endless sea of anonymous denizens. “WHAT IS THE CITY?”, “WHO ARE ALL THESE PEOPLE?”, and “WHERE DO I FIT IN?” At that time I was working out of the seclusion of a suburban basement studio and envisioned the big city as a nihilistic conglomeration of misdirected commercial, and superficial, ideologies. To better understand the phenomenon in question, and in hopes of creating artworks of social significance, I decided to externalize my inquires, and investigate the lives, goals, and motivations of other metropolitan dwellers. I have since executed a strange and "Unconventional Interview” through a series of progressively public experiments involving outdoor murals, festivals, exhibitions, interventions, street, gala & gallery performances. Forsaking the introverted nature of the private studio, I have continued to immerse myself in the public forum thus permitting unparalleled interactions and experiences with peoples from all over the world, and of all walks of life. As a result of this constant public exchange, both the illustrations and myself have evolved immensely. In more recent artworks the city remains a giant gear, only now it is an unimaginably diverse collective of unique individuals, not faceless cogs, who fuel the machine. The primary objective of “HEY APATHY!” is to express an optimistic warning towards our future using monster comics, ink drawings, animations, performance based, multi-media and interactive artworks. Simultaneously intellectually provocative and accessible to viewers of all ages, HEYAPATHY-COMICS-ART.COM collects the first volume of the exploration (2001-2008), a seven year, 13 chapter, drawing-art-performance investigation, and presents for the first time, the second volume, the all-new ongoing comic book series, “HEY APATHY!” (2009-present)

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.



NEW ARTWORKS
HEY APATHY! NEW ART WORKS Comic vignettes presented as gallery wall art. Strange stories of future probabilities. Canadian Art by Mike Parsons

Underground Comics
HEY APATHY! Index of Comic Books & short comics 1999-2009

Canadian Art Drawings
INDEX OF HEY APATHY! DRAWINGS, Canadian Art.

PERFORMANCE ART
STREET & PERFORMANCE ART! Live comic book mural paintings in the streets, at public events, and during gallery, gala, and storefront exhibitions!

MURALS,
HEY APATHY! Large scale Street, Public, and Private wall Murals! Black & White Canadian Art

MONSTER FASHION
ART & MONSTER FASHION DESIGNS, PHOTO SHOOTS, & STREET WEAR

CANADIAN ART EXHIBITIONS
CANADIAN ART EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS. Large Scale Gallery showings and environmental installations

CANADIAN ART
CANADIAN ART ARTIST'S STATEMENTS! Stories, myths, experiences, and essay regarding the city of gears!

Toronto Artist Biography
Visual biography of Toronto artist Mike Parsons

ONLINE ART COMICS INDEX
ONLINE COMICS INDEX! Catalogue of short stories, scary tales, and monster comics published online.

Art Prints
ART PRINTS! Digital poster, giglee, and limited edition seri-graphs prints of monsters and people from the city of gears!

Strange Stories
Strange story about line-ups, eternity,flies,holes, and roaches. 2001

Toronto Artist Artist Artwork 2000
Toronto Artist Self portrait 2000

Toronto Artist Artwork 1998
Toronto Artist Mike Parsons artwork 1998

Toronto Artist Artwork 1998-2000
Toronto artist, Mike Parsons, artwork 1998-2000

Toronto Artist Artwork 1998
Toronto Artist, Mike Parsons, artwork from 1998

Toronto Artist
Toronto Artist Mike Parsons pen & ink artwork 1999

Toronto Artist
Toronto Artist Mike Parsons diary pages from 2000

Toronto Artist
Toronto artist Mike Parsons self portrait 2000

Alternative Comics
Alternative comics & art

alternative comics
Alternative Comics & Art

ROBOT COMICS
ROBOT COMICS! A short story about a future dependent on machines!

online comic
Online comic strip

Underground Comics
Underground comics by artist Mike Parsons. Originally published as

Surreal Comics
Surreal Comics adventure! Episode two of the three part oneric

Stupid Comics
Stupid Comics Issue #2 Underground comics & art by Mike Parsons 2001-02

Monster Comics
Monster Comics online story about the black arts & the modern man, WITCHES august 2009

Surreal Horror Comics
Surreal horror Comics about a creepy hospital waiting room and the impending inevitable doom.

Drawings ,Canadian Art
Drawings,comics,murals,exhibition,canadian art 2001-2002

Robot Comics
Robot Comics & designs 2005

Robot comics
robot comics & art 2005

Robot Comics
Robot Comics and sci-fi designs 2005

Robot Comics
Robot Comics

Robot Comics
Robot Comics & Drawings, Canadian Art 2005

Street Art & Drawings
Canadian Street art & drawings

street art drawings
Canadian Street Art & Drawings

Canadian Street Art & Drawings
Canadian Street Art & Drawings 2005

Street Art Drawings
Canadian Street Art & drawings 2005

Street Art & Drawings
Canadian Street Art & drawings 2005

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Canadian Street Art drawings 2005

STREET ART DRAWINGS
Canadian Street Art & drawings 2005

STREET ART & DRAWINGS
Canadian Street Art & Drawings

STREET ART DRAWINGS
Canadian street art & drawings 2005

STREET ART & DRAWINGS
Canadian Street Art & Drawings 2005

STREET ART DRAWINGS
Canadian street art & drawings 2005

STREET ART DRAWINGS
Canadian Street Art Drawings, ink on paper 2005

New York Drawings
Drawings of New York City

New York Drawings
New York Drawings

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Monster Drawings
Monster Drawings 2002

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Mummy Comic Online
Mummy Comic online

Canadian Art Drawings
Canadian Art , Ink drawings by Mike Parsons 2008

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Canadian art ink drawings 2008

Canadian Art Ink Drawings
Canadian Art Ink Drawings 2008

Canadian Art Ink Drawings
Canadian Art Ink Drawings 2008

Canadian art ink drawing
Canadian Art ink drawings

Canadian Art ink drawings
Canadian Art ink drawings 2008

Canadian Art ink drawings
Canadian Art ink drawings 2008

Street Art & Drawings
Street Art % drawings 2007

Canadian street art & drawings
Canadian Street Art & Drawings 2007

anadian Street Art & Drawings
Canadian Street Art & Drawings 2007

Canadian Street Art & Drawings
Canadian Street Art & drawings ink on paper performances 2007

Canadian Street Art & Drawings
Canadian Street Art & ink drawings 2007

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Canadian Street Art & Drawings 2007

Canadian Art, Street Performances & Drawings
Canadian Street Art & drawings 2007

Canadian Street Art & Drawings
Canadian Street Art & Drawings 2007

Canadian Street Art & Drawings
Canadian Street Art & Drawings 2007

Canadian Street Art & Drawing Exhibition
Canadian Street Art & Drawings Exhibition Resistor Gallery 2007

Street Art
Street Art, Drawings, & Exhibitions 2006

Street Art Drawings
Street Art & Ink Drawings 2006

Street Art & Drawings
Street Art & Drawings 2006

Street Art & Drawings
Street Art & Ink Drawings 2006

Street Art & Ink Drawings 2006
Street Art & Ink Drawings 2006

Street Art & Drawing Exhibition 2006
Street Art & Drawing Exhibition T.O.A.E. 2006

Street Art & Drawing Exhibition
Street Art & Drawing Exhibition Nathan Philips Square 2006

Street Art & Drawing
Street Art & Drawing 2006

Street Art & Drawing
Street Art & Drawing 2006

New York Drawings
New York City Ink Drawings 2004

Canadian Art & Monster Drawings
Canadian Art & Monster Drawings 2005

Canadian Art & Monster Drawings
Canadian Art & Monster Drawings 2005

Canadian Art & Monster Drawings
Canadian Art & Monster Drawings 2005

Canadian Art & Monster Drawings
Canadian Art & Monster Drawings

Canadian Art & Monster Drawings
Canadian Art & Monster Drawings

Canadian Art & Monster Drawings
Canadian Art & Monster Drawings 2005

Canadian Art & Monster Drawings
Canadian Art & Monster Drawings

Canadian Art & Monster Drawings
Canadian Art & Monster Drawings

Stupid Comics
Stupid Comics Explicit Language Warning

STUPID COMICS
STUPID COMICS

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Monster Drawings 2002

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Monster Drawings 2002

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Monster Drawings 2002

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Ink Drawings 2003

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HORROR COMICS
HORROR COMICS! The DOWN monster mini-series 2001-02

Monster Comics
Monster Comics! Ongoing investigation into hidden realms, unique creatures, and other worlds.


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