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| Lynda Barry |
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| Many years ago, Louis Magila snuck a little Theater of the Absurd into an unappreciative magazine for men |
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| Basil Wolverton |
When we look at these pictures, we start out processing them in our customary, linear way but quickly find our assumptions derailed. They take us outside the realm of habit and into a realm of higher plasticity. That's where creativity dwells.
Oscar Wilde wrote that art that is "too intelligible" fails. No matter how skillful, no matter how impressive the technique or great the virtuosity or precise the image, art that is fully intelligible will always be a closed box. These drawings are not especially skillful, but each one opens that box.
They prod the viewer out of our universe of logic and experience, telling us "Your reflexive responses will do you no good here; get to work." The incongruous juxtaposition of previously incompatible worlds-- even with a few simple lines-- is at the heart of creative originality and is probably a better investment of your time than the most detailed photo-realistic painting.
'Tis a fine thing to illustrate literature, but a mistake to do it literally.
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