Online Comics page 16

HEY APATHY! Online Art Comics page 16. This page is a montage of the various artistic processes I went through during the late summer and early fall of 2001. As I started back to school for my second year at the O.C.A.D. I stopped taking drawing courses and started focussing on film and animation. I already knew what I wanted to draw and had spent my entire summer making giant pen and ink murals so I didn't really enjoy the painting classes where they put apples of nudes in front of us and asked us to be colourful. Instead I practiced drawing on my commutes to and from the college and spent my time studying art forms that required technologies and instruction. Primarily this involved working with John Cruele on 16 mm animation projects as well as some long hour in the wood working shop and on the video editing suites. (I didn't include these in the montage but whatever). I also had to go head to head with the curator of the O.C.A.D. atrium gallery but forcefully convinced her (yelling and screaming) to let me book the space. I'm pretty sure my arguments were convincing but I think my friends also went back after explosion to smooth things over a bit. Any ways the story is still in auto-biographical mode but as you can see from internal monologue things are about to shift. I was heavily inspired by the artworks of Robert Crumb at the time and felt it was important to tell one's own stories so as to avoid fraudulence. However I kind of abandoned that philosophy for a while as you'll see in the upcoming stories. more recently I've come to a bit of a full circle and decided to re-include my autobiographical adventures as part of the mythology because I have actually done some weird things, had some strange experiences, and despite the probable outcomes of my attempts, might actually have something worthwhile to say. But I doubt it, probably just another artist trying to convince you how great I am, I mean if you really look at it that's all those "artists" ever really do... “ I am so and so who has been in this many magazines and won this many awards and sold work to two celebrities five years ago worship me!” now that’s art. visit http://www.heyapathy-comics-art.com/

HEY APATHY! ONLINE COMIC PAGE 14

HEY APATHY! online alternative comic page 14. These panels represent my personal intimidations and inspirations derived from the monstrous metropolis. Overwhelmed by the enormity and endlessly confused powers of communication expelled within the city, I have often felt as insignificant as a faceless little bubble person can possibly feel. How can anyone make a difference, have a voice, or even just feel as though he or she even matters. Ah the myth of Sisyphus , only in the case the futility of the anti heroes boulder takes the form of mark making with ink on paper.

After my first exhibition of artworks I became doubly aware of the mass hypnosis of superficial and commercial ideologies rampant in the streets and screens and ultimately minds of the metropolis and it's inhabitants. In order to pursue my artistic endeavours I returned to my studio in an attempt to take the battle up a notch. See what happens next week, (maybe sooner but this is only one of three projects plus never ending commissioned artworks I've got going on simultaneously) If you can’t wait you can always check out more online and independently published comics on my brutally designed home made website. All apologies for the mess over there, I’m just trying to catalogue everything chronologically and I plan to bring in a designer soon to put up a proper home page and clean up my mess.