It’s the Modern World, the End of Times, the Decline of the West, the Revolt of the Masses. It’s the 1920’s. It’s going to be Very Silly.
Inspired by Ishmael Reed’s brilliant novel Mumbo Jumbo, I rewrote H. P. Lovecraft’s prose poem Nyarlathotep. The name of the Messenger of Cosmic Chaos was simply replaced with “Jazz”, and the effect was striking. The “Crawling Chaos” corresponds eerily to Reed’s “Creeping Thing”, Jes Grew, jazz as a liberating psychic plague. I then rewrote some [...]
I have been drawing some short comics about Mayann’s life in Paris before the events in Goldenbird. The first strip is titled: “All That Whispers Ain’t God”. Click the teaser picture to see the page.
The rose tiles on the page are “borrowed” from a C. R. Mackintosh design. Needless to say, I often listen to [...]
Fashion-wise, 1920 was a year when the undulating, opulent orientalism of the tens began to face serious competition from the simple and effective lines of modernism and futurism. Paul Poiret’s fashion house was still the uncontested sultan of orientalist art deco in Paris, but a certain Mademoiselle Coco Chanel had already appeared in town…
A costume [...]