h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The other conversation from the current cartoon says 'This ones funny' and in true h2g2 fashion I wanted to say 'This one is beautiful' ..but such logical symmetry isn't really what I meant.
Rather, it is the grace and tension of the artstyle that I am compelled to comment on. In spite of the content being mildly 'shocking' and seemingly coming out of a youthful angst I have long since passed, the style of the art is brilliant. There is a balance of corporeal ugliness (like whosit who drew for Rat Fink) and spiritual beauty that gives grim reality a heavenly ray of hope.
The current issue would be so ideally suited as the artwork for a book I'd always meant to write that I am half-tempted to start it now... now if I just had a half pipe somewhere...

jwf

Thank you ~jwf~

I always knew someone was going to say that one day. I'm quite glad to discover that my cartoon comes out of youthful angst; I'd begun to think rather that I was becoming youthless, and beginning an early mid-life crisis. I should have remembered what a late developer I am.

What you have hit upon is the way good old, ugly old real life constantly surprises me with its mundane beauty (and all the more beautiful for that - it's in the flaws). My drawing style really came home to me when I discovered the elegance in straight or kinked lines as opposed to curves. I stand by the content: I think perhaps that that sort of rootless angst can strike anyone at any time; the world is also wearisome as you know. It's an absolute luxury, of course, to experience *rootless* angst and melancholy: I celebrate them. We're all a little ugly and beautiful at the same time aren't we?

Thanks again for dropping by; I appreciate your appreciation.

spimcoot

Hear hear!
As I have said before: love the style.

Crikey... I'm getting all nostalgic n0w.
Octoober (sic) 2001, eh. The good old days.

~jwf~