Monday, October 30, 2006

acme chalkboards



I took a break from afternoon projects to do something for Kevin's Acme Lounge.

This is a three-panel, low-fi series picking up on the ubiquitous nature theme present everywhere here, from the buffalo photographs on the wall to the deer painted next to the urinal.

Specifically, I was reacting to a piece on public radio that contrasted the way western science and the native american culture viewed nature. To understand the wolf, native americans would observe the wolf and how it moved through a moonless night and would mimic and "become" the animal in order to better understand it. The program contrasted this with the western practice of dissection.

The three panels depict dissection, attack and mimicry.