Strawberry Ghost
Towards the end of the last day at APE, Shortpants met a girl named Helen Parson. She offered us a trade for some of her books:
We said yes, coz the artwork looked cool and well-executed, and then we sat down to read them.
Parson's artwork has a way of getting inside your head. The subject matter she chooses too - it's infectious. It's dark, sure, but lovely at the same time. Creepy and beautiful.
There's something about her comics that feels very early-era-Surrealist to me too, every piece, even the jokey ones, has a very stream-of-consciousness dreamlike quality to it, the unleashed id wandering about in any direction it feels like. In that sense, while the imagery and content are so off the wall and bizarre, there's something familiar to them as well. I read these books and found myself feeling like I had very vague memories of these stories, like maybe I had dreamt them before.
Shortpants found it to be pretty impressive work, and pretty standout stuff, unlike the vast majority of the comics you can find. Even unlike most of the indy comics you pick up. Hours after we finished reading Parson's comics, we were still thinking about the wildly imaginative imagery.
All in all, this was a great find. You can find Parson's website here, tho it looks like it's under construction right now. If you can find her books, though, grab 'em. It's fantastic work.
We said yes, coz the artwork looked cool and well-executed, and then we sat down to read them.
Parson's artwork has a way of getting inside your head. The subject matter she chooses too - it's infectious. It's dark, sure, but lovely at the same time. Creepy and beautiful.
There's something about her comics that feels very early-era-Surrealist to me too, every piece, even the jokey ones, has a very stream-of-consciousness dreamlike quality to it, the unleashed id wandering about in any direction it feels like. In that sense, while the imagery and content are so off the wall and bizarre, there's something familiar to them as well. I read these books and found myself feeling like I had very vague memories of these stories, like maybe I had dreamt them before.
Shortpants found it to be pretty impressive work, and pretty standout stuff, unlike the vast majority of the comics you can find. Even unlike most of the indy comics you pick up. Hours after we finished reading Parson's comics, we were still thinking about the wildly imaginative imagery.
All in all, this was a great find. You can find Parson's website here, tho it looks like it's under construction right now. If you can find her books, though, grab 'em. It's fantastic work.
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