Wednesday 31 October 2012

A Softer World

A Softer World is a collaborative webcomic between novelist Joey Comeau and photographer Emily Horne. It's a very dark comic, and is presented in a collage-like style. The photographs and the text aren't always obviously connected, and often appear as if they're from the perspective of the person the text is from, looking from one thing to another (as the images often repeat, zoomed in/out or panned.
While the comic is usually very sombre and depressing, this is often mixed with humour to make the reader feel uncomfortable. Each narrative in each comic is completely disconnected and out of context. It reminds me of Joseph Cornell's boxes - each comic is its own little world. The characters in the comic are usually creepy, criminal, (often referring to murder and stalking) and secretive. At the same time, it can be twistedly romantic.

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