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UNLiKE
A graphic novel by Chris Wisnia
A Twilight Zone- or M. Night Shyamalan-style mystery/suspense graphic in five chapters, about a tight-knit and loving community from the not-too-distant future, that no longer suffers from aging, disease, poor health, crime, pollution, overpopulation, natural disasters, or global warming. Leisure dominates their time. Twelve-year-old Thomas’s family is convinced their devoted religiosity is responsible for all this good fortune. But despite this supposedly blessed existence, a completely masked, black-clad group of silent, mysterious, threatening humanoid beings, wielding sophisticated technological devices and machines, slinks among them, in their streets and alleys and gutters, or on their rooftops, causing odd occurrences, subtle changes to the city, and even disappearances of the townspeople. Thomas finds himself increasingly threatened and confronted by these “Unlikes…”
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Chapter One (26 pages – Free!)
Chapter Two (25 pages – $2 Patrons)
Chapter Three (33 pages – $2 Patrons)
Chapter Four (19 pages – $2 Patrons)
Chapter Five (32 pages – $2 Patrons)
References and Further Reading (Free!)
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PDF’S!
PDF Download – UNLiKE Chapter One ($4 Patrons)
PDF Download – UNLiKE Chapter Two ($4 Patrons)
PDF Download – UNLiKE Chapter Three ($4 Patrons)
PDF Download – UNLiKE Chapter Four ($4 Patrons)
PDF Download – UNLiKE Chapter Five ($4 Patrons)
High Res Prints!
UNLiKE print – Buildings ($4 Patrons)
UNLiKE print – Silhouette before a Cityscape ($4 Patrons)
UNLiKE print – Windows ($4 Patrons)
UNLiKE print – The City under the Cross ($4 Patrons)
Screen Savers!
UNLiKE Screen Saver – Cityscape and Smoke ($4 Patrons)
UNLiKE Screen Saver – Unlike Silhouette before the City ($4 Patrons)
UNLiKE Screen Saver – Cityscape 2 (page 79) ($4 Patrons)
UNLiKE Screen Saver – Thomas’s Room ($4 Patrons)
UNLiKE Screen Saver – Cross ($4 Patrons)
UNLiKE Screen Saver – Smoke ($4 Patrons)
commentaries:
UNLiKE – artistic style part 1 of 2 ($7 Patrons)
UNLiKE – artistic style part 2 of 2 ($7 Patrons)
UNLiKE – the people 1 of 3 ($7 Patrons)
UNLiKE – the people 2 of 3 ($7 Patrons)
UNLiKE – the people 3 of 3 ($7 Patrons)
UNLiKE – the people – Influences 1: Jean Dubuffet (Free!)
UNLiKE – the people – Influences 2: Henri Rousseau (Free!)
UNLiKE – the people – Influences 3: Henri Matisse (Free!)
Unlike is copyright Chris Wisnia Arts, Inc. (2022)
A Small List of Great Artists – PAUL GAUGUIN (French, 1848-1903)
see A Small List of Great Artists: Gauguin’s Tahiti
PAUL GAUGUIN (French, 1848-1903) was a stock broker and successful business man, painting in his free time and married with five children, until the Paris stock market crashed in 1882, which led him to become a full time painter and leave his family. His art became influenced by folk art and Japanese prints, as he tried to find a technique to express the essence of objects, eliminating subtle gradations of color and classical perspective, and painting from the imagination. He sought to capture the “primitive” magic of spiritual and imaginative states in his art. He befriended Van Gogh and spent nine weeks in 1888 painting at his Yellow House in Arles. Their relationship deteriorated, and when Gauguin said he was leaving town, van Gogh confronted him with a straight razor, then cut off his own ear that evening. They never saw each other again, but they continued to correspond. In 1891, Gauguin sailed for Tahiti, producing many of his most famous paintings there, of the exotic location, its forgotten culture and religion, and its natives – or his romanticized visions of all of it in his mind. He wrote in a travelogue that he married a thirteen year old and had a child with her before leaving in 1893. Upon his return, he continued to paint from his Tahitian memories, then returned again from 1895-1901, taking in a fourteen year old who gave him two children, but one died in infancy. His health declined, and he was hospitalized several times. He moved to the Marquesas Islands, took in a fourteen year old to live with him and dress his sores, and she had his daughter. Weak, in great pain, his sight beginning to fail him, and resorting to morphine, he died in 1903.
Read the comic book, “Brush with Peril”:
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A Small List of Great Artists – ROBERT ARNESON (American, 1930-1992)
see Arneson’s Self-Portraits
ROBERT ARNESON (American, 1930-1992) was the Father of the Funk Art movement of the 1960’s. His work was labelled as confrontational, immature, naughty, irreverent, sardonic, or edgy. It feels to me like a prankser stomping on the foot of notions of high art, and winking and smirking with us at this conceited conception of the role or prestige of “the artist.” He taught ceramics at U.C. Davis while I was there, and fellow students boasted what a great professor he was, and how I absolutely had to take as many classes as I could get into with him. I was never particularly interested in sculpture, and I was only at the campus for a year and didn’t manage to get into his classes before he retired, and then he passed away from liver cancer a short year later. But his presence was everywhere, most especially with the five Egg Head sculptures that began appearing all over campus the year after he died. In 1997 a group of us fellow graduates of Davis trekked to see his exhibit Self-Reflections at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and I saw there that humor, self-deprecation, sarcasm, and visual puns could be art. But his self-portraits of his cancer and chemotherapy treatments were some of the most affecting reflections of mortality and deterioration of the body I’d experienced.
Read the comic book, “Brush with Peril”:
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