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Jenny Everywhere in New York Chaos

 
 
The Dadaist
18:15 / 20.11.03
Here it is, my first Jenny Everywhere comic!
 
 
adamswish
14:53 / 21.11.03
Dadist, it's fabulous my friend, and good to see the shifter in colour too.

And I love the style Andres uses, is that his usual one, or is he one of these annoying, highly talented people who can do a lot of different styles.

Only wish there had been more pages. But that's me, always trying to extend what I find pleasurable.
 
 
The Dadaist
19:34 / 21.11.03
Thank you adamswish. Andrés can change his style a lot! You didn´t see his best work yet.
I have a more elaborate script of Jenny in Irak, but I don´t know...there are too many sensitive people out there. But is a story of life and death with a optimistic message in the final.

I don´t think that extend the comic is a good idea but a appreciate the opinion, a lot of people think like you. The idea with Andrés was to make a very short comic with a political and magickal point. That´s all. You´ll have the oportunity to see my talent several times in the future, hehehe.

The other inconvenient is that my english is very poor and I write in spanish (Impulsivelad translate my comics to english, thanks Imp). I can read english perfect but the writing is very difficult to me.
 
 
sleazenation
12:00 / 23.11.03
Hey, since jenny is everywhere why can't we have some jenny strips in Spanish? There are certainly already several blogs and things in non-English languages that feature jenny - why not some spanish language strips released alongside the english languge ones?
 
 
Tamayyurt
13:05 / 23.11.03
I think that's a fantastic idea... if anyone wants to translate any of my Jenny scripts into Spanish are more than welcome. (I'd do it but my Spanish is at a 4th grade level.)
 
 
The Dadaist
02:19 / 24.11.03
I´m not responsable for "hypersigil effects" in my Jenny comic. :)
 
 
The Dadaist
04:58 / 01.12.03
The idea with Andrés was to do the shortest comic because it was our first work together.
I ´ll prove that my 6-page comic is, in fact, more complex than what it seems (sorry my english, again):

The title: a reference to NYC (New York City). New York Chaos.....well....you know...CHAOS...the bomb, Horus, etc.

Page 1 & 2: The real Statue and Jenny dressed like the statue: Macrocosm/Microcosm (also note that Jenny is holding a device to smoke pot...she fills her lungs/interior with smoke, a bomb connotation).

Horus: I think all the people here know Horus, the violent and creative god of the new aeon. The Statue represents the old times and Horus the future. It´s all simbolic."...and from Horus, the bomb".

Page 4, last panel: Fascist president Bush hits the petrol tower. Microcosm/Macrocosm, again. A small structure fall, then a big structure fall.

Page 5, last panel: "Lady Liberty, I´m Lady Chaos and I´m here to replace you". Jenny like the representation of Horus, the chaos. Replace one simbol with another. Another dualistic confrontation.

The agents, last page: Human sacrifice.

For me, there are a lot of things in a very very short comic. And of course, the political point (indivisible of the magickal point).
 
 
Mike-O
05:35 / 01.12.03
Lovely deconstruction, D. And a lovely strip... I found it mildly Absurdist, in that to really find any meaning you had to look at the iconography/symbols within the art and text, while the story itself seemed very chaotic. I like how form reflects content there; Jenny's so-called chaos replaces the "order" of American politics, just as the chaotic and absurdist nature of the story itself is used to defamiliarize and hence open us to a greater understanding of just what the message is.
 
 
The Dadaist
05:38 / 01.12.03
Ah....I forgot:
Page 1 & 2: The desacralization (I hope that this word is right!)of the components of the Statue: the torch/the pipe, the book/the Crowley´s book and the speech in the first page/the speech in the second page. Also Crowley is related with Horus and the stuff that I said above.
 
 
The Dadaist
05:50 / 01.12.03
Thank you Mike-O for your opinion.
 
 
adamswish
16:42 / 01.12.03
Re-reading the comic I actually like the shortness of the story. Adds an element to the chaos of the story. Gives an air of rushed, seats of the pants, action/reaction type thing going on. Like we're seeing the end of something that began months ago.

I got most of the references between the first two pages. But have to admit I mis-took the pipe for a standard lamp and flex running down jenny's arm. Is the ariel crown the same as the crown of thorns or am I just leaping to conclusions here?
 
 
The Dadaist
19:50 / 01.12.03
Thanks, adamswish. Aerial Crown, not ariel crown.

I wish Moriarty change his opinion about my comic.
 
 
cliffsteele
03:06 / 02.02.04

I don't know if anyone else caught it, but the title to the right is incorrectly syaing "Graveyard Shift"

--Scott