NEW ARTWORKS & SURREAL COMICS

HEY APATHY! WEEKLY WEBCOMIC

All new SURREAL COMICS WEEKLY! A mysterious recurring hallucination renders numerous unrelated office workers comatose while others are replaced by rodents, aged and disgruntled versions of themselves or conniving upstarts. Meanwhile a Superhero battles giant Robots, a Mad Scientist experiments on himself and one seemingly insignificant dreamer turns into a plant. Beneath the surface of normal communications lies a strange weird world of interconnected thoughts, deeds, actions and revelations. Yet for some reason most citizens have refused to acknowledge it, until now. Surreal Comics Weekly is a story of the unconscious existence, nightmares and dreams, as they manifest as physical and psychological anomalies amongst the denizens of the monstrous metropolis. Welcome to the Surreal City, a place where oneiric absurdities edify and daily routines may result in the perpetual reduction of ones mass, weight, height and existence. Horror, Satire, Speculative and fantastical, NEW WEIRD TALES EVERY FRIDAY!

SURREAL COMICS 13 STORIES/CREATURE VISIONS...

SURREAL COMICS 13 STORIES and CREATURE VISIONS ! RISE YE MIGHTY TREE AND DEFEND AGAINST THE MONSTER CITY! Two trees have assimilated a mechanical foliage battle armour, an elevated city breeds discontent, and a fashion shoot turns monster in these oneiric tragedies. Can the world survive another alien invasion or nature's retaliation? Storybook struggles of men as mice in the eyes of the environment, technology, and the infinite itself! Inexplicable revelations and surreal narrations lurk amidst the fine pen & ink studio illustrations. This collection of absurdities examines various sequences of chronological development regarding a series of peculiar, unusual, and apocalyptic events. Illustrated Stories 2010.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1) SEEDS A commercial traveller searches the world over for new and marketable anomalies. His investigation eventually leads to a tribal village hidden deep within the jungles of Africa. Here he learns of secret vegetations capable of unimaginable feats. The discovery may prove enormously profitable, but can these surreal vines be safely transplanted back in the City of Gears?

2) THE ELEVATED CITY A sociological imperative to exist beyond or capabilities on earth has driven the soil barren and left the air void and toxically malodorous. In our infinite brilliance, man has moved upwards developing a layed architecture sprawling away from the land. Levels upon levels of strange apartment communities annihilate the skyline and sunshine alike.

3) A TALE OF TWO TREES As the all encompassing MAKINGLIFEPERFECT Corp. reaches new scientific heights, useless and manipulative products rein supreme.However the industrial success has attracted unexpected enemies. Hear the cries of nature for two trees have assimilated a mechanical foliage battle armour in order to survive these terrifying technological times!

4) A SHOPPING SPREE NIGHTMARE A Surreal shopping spree incites strange nightmare visions of an amorphous globular macroverse. Overwhelming enthusiastic, an unsuspecting shopper is engaged in a world of unobtainable satisfaction and eventually imprisoned in a sanatorium padded with buyer's remorse!

5) BRIDE OF THE WORKHORSE An unusual surreal comics adventure involving a genetically modified centaur romancing a artificially ameliorated fashion model. Can the fated love affair consummate or will mechanical deviations consume the once brightly illuminated love? A particularly strange and unrealistic monster comics interpretation of real life.

6) THE AMORPHOUS GLOB MACROVERSE An apparently insignificant puddle spilt over in the night. Whilst gathering on the floor the white paste malignantly mutates and proceeds to commit horrific telepathic invasions. The irregular and intrusive messages sent from the glob, reveal the most damnable and unforgettable of all unwanted insights.

7) AFTER THE HARVEST Surreal Aliens invade earth only to question whether our planet is fit for conquest and assimilation! What will these beings make of mankind and what are their diabolical plans for the future of earth? Beware, these extraterrestrial vegetations having been plotting our annihilation all the way from outer space to the monstrous metropolis!

About The New Ink Drawings Animations and Comics!

HEY APATHY! 13 STORIES

These new “Hey Apathy!” surreal comics ink drawings are dedicated to the exploration of short imaginative narrative vignettes. Each study is hand drawn with fine point technical pens and follows a short visual stanza involving 13 miniatures per theme. Using a variety of tools and ambidextrous techniques, I hope to move quickly through a multitude of surreal comics symbols and myths similar to the methods used in periodical publications. Although assimilating storyboard & cartoon-like vocabularies, the drawings will differ drastically as emphasise is given to the minimization of narration and to the detailed craftsmanship of each singular panel. Basically these are subliminally sophisticated comics intended for the gallery setting. There will be 13 stories ( as the title suggests) each limited to a 13 panel investigation and each drawn using a different illustrative technique. The finished artworks include a hand written calligraphy account of the correlated stories.

2010 PROJECTS COMICS AND ANIMATIONS !!!

13 Stories is one of three major HEY APATHY! Projects under development in 2010. Simultaneous with the illustrated fables, I am also working on a new short Animation funded by the Ontario Arts Council as well as a online strip entitled MONSTER COMICS! These new Volume 2 artworks continue to explore the monstrous metropolis know as the City of Gears. In the earliest artworks (HEY APATHY Volume One) the city was revealed as a giant gear propelled by an infinitely anonymous sea of faceless people With each subsequent chapter of the mythology, the drawings perpetually delve deeper into the urban atrocities. By means of constant public exhibition, interventions, and street performances I eventually started identifying and interacting with these apparently shapeless crowds. As a result of these public experiments I have met thousands of people from all over the world and of all walks of life. In more recent artworks the city is still rendered as an enormous gear, only now it is all the different and crazy people who fuel the machine! The 2010 volume 2 drawings take the inquiries one step further as they begin to examine the individual koan like and absurdist occurrences of these strange and diverse denizens as opposed too, but related with, the ominously isolating enormity of the masses.

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