HORROR COMICS

THE DOWN ANTHOLOGY

Strange and unfathomable occurrences in a world turned weird. Creepy humanoid creatures become interchangeable with human beings as our worst nightmares and factual certainty collide. The landscapes give way to an emptied white void and the air we still breath blow an infestation of flies. Routine become questionable and all sense and reason soon follows. A strange conversation arises at the diner table, a pedestrian becomes engulfed in a perpetual line, and the hospital of horrors seems to practice mistreatments. As the city devolves into a menacing mythology, the denizens grin with decoratively blackened orifices as they refuse to ascend and keep moving on Down.

The three part Down horror comics anthology was penned throughout my sketchbooks in the spring of 2003. Each of the three surreal parables was made intuitively with out scripts or preliminary drawings. Drawn directly with ink on the paper each subliminally oneiric narrative was intended as an exploration of the unconscious mind. However no matter how weird (or mundane) the tales presented themselves, I could still draw connections from the dreams to reality. Therefore the true terror of these unspeakable vignettes lies not in the horrific fantasy but in the peculiar critique the nightmares share with reality.

Featured as part of the 2003 ink drawing Series FLIES HOLES AND ROACHES, the Down comics were my first to explore both cartoon caricatures and creepy hieroglyphics in the same pages. There were 150 signed limited edition photo copy zines of each Down Book produced and distributed in the streets of Toronto and at various public festivals and comic book conventions.

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