SURREAL COMICS & NEW ARTWORKS
2010 MONSTER COMICS AND NEW ANIMATIONSHEY APATHY! 2010 PROJECTS
There are three projects currently under development in the HEY APATHY! laboratory. I have strategically divided my time for the upcoming annum into the simultaneous creation of a new animation, an online surreal comics Monster Mythology, and 13 illustrated stories. Although the chores are many, I have carefully calculated divisions in time and resigned to creating only small works ( up to 8.5 x 11 inches)so all the tasks will get done. For the most regular updates please view the HEY APATHY! Alternative comics blog.
NEW SURREAL ANIMATION
First and foremost is an all new extended experimental animation. The hand drawn oneiric adventure shares an hallucinogenic journey through the monstrous metropolis. The animation introduces the city as an ominous gear infinitely propelled by an endless sea of faceless denizens. Through a series of metaphoric vignettes the cartoon will entrance the audience guiding them on a quest for the eye and identity of the big city. Using the HEY APATHY! Volume one drawings as a story board, the animation sifts through thirteen unique drawing styles ranging from hieroglyphic abstractions to intricate absurdities. The new animated artwork should be ready for screenings late Sept. 2010. The HEY APATHY VOLUME ONE Animation has been funded by the Ontario Council for the Arts 2010.
The second secret project is the all new HEY APATHY! monster comics series. This online undertaking is being compiled from a series of portraits, journal accounts, and comic strip adaptations from my experiences working for Blackbeard Daunkleweed last year. Blackbeard, a patron of the arts and all round weird fellow, commissioned me to draw a number of portraits of all these strange and unusual people he'd met. And strange they were indeed! All new creepy creatures,weird stories and unnecessary revelations. Mike Parsons 2010
Although I've finished most of the drawings for this short story, it has kind of taken a back seat to the SURREAL COMICS narrative I've been producing and probably won't get published online until early next year. This just happened because I wanted to work outdoors during the summer and didn't want to carry large boards around. The new comics, which will be published weekly in Sept., were all made in a small and portable sketchbook so as to avoid spending the entire summer couped up in the studio.
NEW SURREAL COMICS STATEMENTSGOALS AND PROCESSESDue to the panoptic schedule and mental constraints required to complete the new HEY APATHY! art comics & animations, I have shifted my fine artwork focus from large street and gallery installations to a limited number of smaller “storybook” size drawings. A subsequent and particular consequence of this artistic re-direction has been that the new surreal comics illustrations breach the routine of creating and exhibiting studies based on a single hypothesis. The third and final project for 2010 is entitled 13 Stories. This instalment of HEY APATHY! Volume 2 includes 13 short and varied narrations each comprised of a 13 detailed illustrations and a hand written parable intended for use as both online comics, print publication and for art gallery presentation.
Most gallery exhibitions are constructed on a standardized and systematic process involving a pseudo mass production of paintings. The artist determines a particular statement and co-relating technical process and proceeds to develop a predetermined number of studies involving the same theme and approach. This approach allows for advanced interpretations of the particular topic in question and generally produces a cohesive and marketable body of work. However having practiced this method several times over, I have discovered disconcerting and limited variables in the technique. I have had a tendency in previous drawing explorations (volume 1) to develop my visual vocabulary and technical processes by means of repetitious experimentation. The result being massive surreal comics landscape installations in which the larger body of work was reflective of each individual drawing. This approach proved valuable and many environmental transformations were produced as a result, yet in light of my increasing awareness in regards to new media and online communication, the notion of re-examining a single ideology to such an extent has since become of less relevance. Instead the drawings, like the books, analyze constantly evolving thematic and technical approaches. In more recent ink studies, I have attempted to extend my illustrated linguistics by exploring multiple issues and processes through numerous smaller expeditions. Each new body of work reveals a linear narrative adventure as a series of cartoon vignettes and metropolitan fables including "A TALE OF TWO TREES...", & "AFTER THE HARVEST". Black & White travelling through weird space and time, 2008-present. Back to SURREAL COMICS MAINPAGE.
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