Impossible Mike wrote a superb and insightful examination of the FOLLY Compendium, "Hans Rickheit & The Incurable Lost Souls to the Rest of Society."
[Sa] it was not enough difficult you make your own world, where the History, the laws and perhaps and the natural phenomena that we know differ to a great degree, exist and certain artists that go a step this [parapera] challenge. In the world that they make they do not only bring down the laws of Physics, but also those of logic, giving us somebodies from the more authentically strange histories that perhaps we have read. From other, certain, perhaps these worlds and their histories are not also for each one. And this it could explain also why in our own pedestrian and grey world artists as called this week, Hans Rickheit, it is not as long as popular it would be supposed. Sure this phenomenon is not owed in lack of talent or - much more - imagination, but in factors of that are not hour they are discussed. Because Rickheit allocates big reserve fund also the two, something that is obvious in his, very little unfortunately, works. Most characteristic these they can find itself in the various lines mini comics that it has published occasionally, usually with his in. [Gnostoteri], CHROME FETUS was assembled recently by Fantagraphics in a volume titled FOLLY: THE CONSEQUENCES OF INDISCRETION and constitutes a first class occasion for whoever it wishes it visits the world of Rickheit, there that the control they take pictures capable you haunt with their brutality and histories that seldom remove meaning. Something [sa] small glances in a world different from ours, through a degraded prism, however, that checks himself the author. The small histories, however, constitute one only part of his work. Rickheit has published also two graphic novels, CHLOE and THE SQUIRREL MACHINE - first alone him and second via Fantagraphics. Can see these two work (first, in deed has been also rewarded with Xeric Award) as a pass of duration in his world. At the same time, do his occupations include also other forms of Art (from illustration up to performance art), but also two webcomics in serialized form, the ECTOPIARY and COCHLEA &? EUSTACHIA, that can import in the world of Rickheit and most hesitant (from economic opinion). And, naturally, you can read also the interview that follows and enter in this world with driver himself his author, called this week, Hans Rickheit.
I'm always telling people to be careful with those things, but they never listen.
CHLOE, like my other comics, moves at its own speed, and is often reluctant to get out of bed.
Much like Ectopiary, the main character of Chloe spends a lot of time running around in the woods. I guess it's a consistent theme for me.
Cochlea & Eustachia continue their object lesson of Things You Should Not Do.
100 pages of Ectopiary completed, and it appears that Dale is still running around in the woods.
I'm sure you've suspected this sort of thing happens in your neighbors' backyards all the time.
I received this jaw-dropping image today from an individual identified as "gElm." Pictures like this make me feel like my existence has been justified. Any and all fan-art sent to me will be immediately posted on the Chrome Fetus Website here: http://chromefetus.com/fanart.html. I hope this inspires others to make a contribution!
You should always take interest in your neighbors.
I'm not sure what those things are. I recommend that you refrain from handling them if you should ever encounter some.
"Chloe's just not popular." - I felt that the school bullying theme had been played out already, so I tried to sum up the point in a single panel.
It was a pleasure to be at the 10th anniversary MoCCA Art Festival. It's interesting to me that my latest book FOLLY should debut here, since my first book, the xeric-funded CHLOE, debuted at the 1st MoCCA Art Fest back in 2002. I remember it as a magical experience. While I was there, my comic strips were being featured in The Seattle Stranger, and it seemed that everybody who approached my table was abuzz about them. I recall the bus ride home, filled with a sense that I had finally floated to the surface above the quagmire of obscurity and found a hungry audience for my perverse scrawls.
Spectacularly, book sold out at the event. Evidently, my enervated demeanor did not diminish public response.
That evening, I enjoyed an excellent plate of mussels at Stuzzi's Ristorante on Broadway with Jason, Frederik Stromberg along with the Fantagraphics crew - Jacq, Jen and Kristy, who were extraordinarily gracious and generous hostesses.
The above photo, taken by my extremely patient and enduring girlfriend, Krissy, is a fair depiction of my condition on the 2nd day, as we both prepare to flee the urban environs of NYC to our quaint country hovel in quiet western Mass.
One should always place owls in secure places to prevent this sort of thing.
I admit that this portion of the story lacks subtlety. I'll agree to put down my sledgehammer if the rest of you will put down yours.
Oh, the things we learned in school.