Posted by giveawayboy on December 17, 2001 at 00:13:00:
so sometimes your stuff reminds me of that, the best comic art i have seen,
[cool comparison, it seems to go halfway between realism and cartoon]
but you are dealing with symbols that are more interesting. sometimes your characters are heroic, sometimes they are lonely, still heroic but in a sad/poetic way. but then you do a lot of stuff that is way beyond comic art, that is more high art and more mythological and timeless, but still a the style that is, i don't know, pop art i guess. i don't have the vocabulary to do it justice.
[i think the best comics tend to become like modern myths]
...the previous post strikes me as something that might work better if you had better tools to work with and had the training to work with them.
[agreed.]
the stuff you do with the tools/materials you have mastered is a lot stronger.
[like my Magnum 44 --thanks to Keith Haring for that one--and some black Sharpies and Crayola fat markers]
still though i think the basic idea is pretty interesting. somewhat shocking and disturbing. which always seems to end up being a really good thing when it comes to art.
[all i know is that it was about love]
anyway i like the image, i feel something in it that feels like an evolution, maybe in a highly personal sense. but its not my favorite.
[fair--thanks for the comments, good game]