This is my all time favorite boomer comic. The artist demonstrates a passable ability to represent a human, and then creates that unfathomable cubist representation that we clock as a disdainful human face despite it lacking any form or signifier that would mark it as one. Baudrillard is spinning in his grave at the fifth level of abstraction that this comic artist has blindly stumbled into. The juxtaposition between human and other is shockingly stark. It should immediately be clocked that something is wrong with the father’s appearance, it shouldn’t even register as a human, and yet our brains leap across the uncanny valley between the two and go “Yeah, human, checks out” without consciously realizing the abomination should not pass the most basic tickle of pareidolia.
Literally lol’d reading this. And it’s also so true - before reading this comment, I thought nothing of the father’s appearance, but the more I look at it now, the crazier it becomes.
This is my all time favorite boomer comic. The artist demonstrates a passable ability to represent a human, and then creates that unfathomable cubist representation that we clock as a disdainful human face despite it lacking any form or signifier that would mark it as one. Baudrillard is spinning in his grave at the fifth level of abstraction that this comic artist has blindly stumbled into. The juxtaposition between human and other is shockingly stark. It should immediately be clocked that something is wrong with the father’s appearance, it shouldn’t even register as a human, and yet our brains leap across the uncanny valley between the two and go “Yeah, human, checks out” without consciously realizing the abomination should not pass the most basic tickle of pareidolia.
Literally lol’d reading this. And it’s also so true - before reading this comment, I thought nothing of the father’s appearance, but the more I look at it now, the crazier it becomes.
truly this guy is up there with duchamp among artists that makes statements about art
I can’t stop laughing, omg someone help me, it’s the fourth time this day that I see this post and start laughing uncontrollably