Feel the love flow...

So, I was sort of going to write a totally different post, but, in light of the fires raging in my country and the government's reaction to the situation, I decided to copy here what is, for me, one of the best pages in my favourite webcomic, "Pictures of You".

It's called "Angry Letter to the Government #467"



Dear Government Stooge,

we have a problem to discuss. You take my money and then tell me how to live my life, and then you spend that money on hired goons who make it illegal for me not to pay you.

I have spent the better part of the last several years trying to think of an appropriate analogy for the nature of our wholly dysfunctional relationship.

My first thought was that of the mafia squeezing a local business owner for protection money, but then I recalled the injustice of having to give you my implied consent for your actions in the form of my vote.

The beauty pageant you laughingly refer to as the democratic process is an ingenious tool in reinforcing your delusion that your actions are righteous, and that I have in some way chosen you, or at least agreed to in some way.

I have come recently, though, to the realization that ours is an abusive marriage, and that you are liken to a husband who spends all my money, controls everything I do and tells me how I would be lost without you.

Every few years you buy flowers and promise you'll change, but as soon as I take you back, you're drinking the grocery money and telling me it's my fault when you can't find your car keys.

I am writing this letter to confess that I no longer believe it when you say you'll make dinner now and then or do the dishes or fix the toilet. I don't want to pick up your dirty socks anymore, and I have no desire to look the other way when you cheat on me.

In short, government, I want a divorce.

Sincerely yours,
Patrick Hogan
XOXO




*All the above is written by Gibson Twist, none belongs to me, though I share the sentiment more than I can say*

Pictures of You...

I'm totally addicted to this webcomic, it's called Pictures of You - check it out!


Story is about a group of young students in a Canadian university and the way they interract with each other. The comic timing is perfect, the characters are flawless, the situations are completely real, the art is simple and eyecatching. Gibson Twist - author and artist - updates it about twice weekly, he's brilliant!
My fave is Patrick - wow, we are too similar, except I play electric guitar and not bass...


Hope you enjoy it as much as I do - I'm reading it repeatedly, daily, like a dose of medicine or something!

Yoshitaka Amano - a God

Actually, this is a post I had wanted to write for a long time, but I guess never got round to it...

My first experience of Yoshitaka Amano's work was through my all-time favourite comic, The Sandman. Amano-sensei had collaborated with Neil Gaiman and the result was a beautiful story with stunning artwork, "The Dreamhunters". And that was it - love at first sight.

His art always seems to me at once very simple - few doodling lines making up faces - and very elaborate - the attention to the details on ornaments, fruit, flowers is amazing. A friend once commented Amano-sensei's work reminded her of Klimt for its vicious colours - I can see what she meant. For me, it's simply a brilliant "marriage" of both Western and Eastern art.

After all the philosophising, let the pictures speak for themselves...

The Dreamer

Vampire Hunter D

Elric the Vanishing Tower

Flowers and Snakes

Aloft fruit of Paradise

Beast one that reveres Darkness

And the man himself

image from photobucket

Many thanks to elevenland.com for the images.

And, fuck. I only got the first volume of Hero and the second has been out of print for ages... *mutters curses*