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Comics Exhibition: "From TELEOS to the Beyond”
Dithers Humor with the Existential and the Mundane
SILVER SPRING, MD— DWIGHTMESS Cartooning & Comic Arts, a new gallery devoted to experimental and cutting-edge independent comics and illustration, is proud to announce its next exhibition, From Telos to the Beyond, a conceptual group show exploring material spirituality and existentialism through comics, featuring the original comics art of Sam Sharpe, Everett Bass, Bob Kubbers and Peach S. Goodrich.
Combining the uncanny and the profane, the arcane and the contemporary, From Telos to Beyond represents a cartoonists' inclination for testing out possible habitable cosmic systems through the particularized and unshared realities of their art. Humanity's inclination to obsessively name its purpose through art is a feature of popular Western cosmogony, and is put into illuminatingly weird action by these artists through the language of sequential storytelling.
Sam Sharpe and Peach S. Goodrich are collaborators on Viewotron, an anthology of recurring stories that match comedic riffs with philosophical narrative rhymes that could only happen in comics. Populated with talking animal college students, goal-less explorers, space monsters, debunked deities, and unexamined consciences, the publication's weird humor reminds us that no one is safe from the stresses in our lives that can embolden one to self-sabotage.
Combined with Sharpe and Goodrich, the perfect draftsmanship and storytelling of comics artist Bob Lubbers (1922-2017) reveals a mastery of and seamless relationship to the comics medium that would seem, to contemporary eyes, eerie to maintain and distinctive in its compositions. His bold creativity, on display in comic strips such as 'Lil Abner, Tarzan, The Saint, and Secret Agent X9 should have afforded him more recognition. According to comics journalist Paul Gravett, Lubbers is 'not the celebrated cartoonist he should be.' Additionally, in these strange & obscure, possibly unpublished comic strips titled Buck Danes, Everett Bass, an artist surmised to have worked in the 1940's, engages a singular, running commentary about making ends meet through its characters that mirrors the political realism of Harold Gray's renowned and long-running comic strip, Little Orphan Annie. That the comic may well represent a failed attempt to capitalize on Gray's success by featuring familiar working-class themes and a relatable drawing style, it ultimately still succeeds at replicating Gray's comic universe, but for purposes too fascinatingly odd to be understood.
The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus centers around the irrationality of the universe through our narrator who feels that life has no rational meaning or order so he becomes an observer, thinks logical and is focused more on the physical aspect of life (life, pleasures, and death). The book has themes of existentialism, absurdity and asks questions about purpose of living, the rationality of life and more.
I chose the letter "S" as the focus of my drop cap because it is the one word that feels captures the way the narrator feels, a stranger. I also was having difficulty coming up with ways to convey the themes of the book with the cover and it hit me in a moment of inspiration to do a juxtaposition of Art Nouveau and a Monotype.
Art Nouveau symbolizes the "beauty" / meaning that we give the world through its curves and floral designs,
Monotype symbolizes the most basic form of the letter in my opinion, a structured and mathematically correct letter.
By combing these two I am attempting to show that the Narrator is like the letter "S" structured, logical and the floral design in the back signify the "beauty" we give/attempt to give the world. Mimicking the relation of the Narrator and life, he either stayed unimpressed with the "beauty" and meaning that we give life.
The Title of the book will go right above the floral design and the author will go right below the design.
The final design won't make the floral design as pronounced but rather they will be more subtle and either have an emboss effect or transparency.
This is Washington, AR's earliest cemetery. A restoration project of the Caddo District D.A.R., it is divided into two main sections, black. and white. The white section was used until about 1860. The black section continued to be used until the early 1920s. The cemetery is now closed to burials.
A person's mind tends to get lost in a place like this, as you shoot pictures of headstones that really cannot convey the existentialism of the experience.
The Concord Bridge .. the view the British saw, bridge reconstructed. They had to cross it for another try to secure or seize the militias armory .. the Minutemen Armory & Arsenal
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