Comments on: Maurice Sendak on acid

Maurice Sendak on acid

sneakin — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:57:54 -0800

The bizarre art of Christopher Uminga. Eerie, Cute and simultaneously freaky. Bonus points for the awesome rendering of one of the best Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes ever, Hush. Here is a link to the whole gallery.

By: autodidact

autodidact — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:15:22 -0800

I am officially sick of art like this.

By: dersins

dersins — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:27:25 -0800

It's done very well. I just wish it weren't done so often.

By: rtha

rtha — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:45:20 -0800

I've never understood the appeal of art like this. I liked The Gentlemen, though.

By: JeffK

JeffK — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:52:41 -0800

Nothing about this is even vaguely reminiscent of Maurice Sendak. Sendak moves me. This does not.

By: aaronetc

aaronetc — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:13:58 -0800

~~Maurice Sendak~~ Jhonen Vasquez on ~~acid~~ nothing There, fixed.

By: squasha

squasha — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:18:42 -0800

Sendak's demons are his own and very personal...these are more obviously demonic and perhaps that's why they are getting a negative response, hereabouts. I think they're extremely well done, and I really do like them. Went through the entire archive, too. I've seen an awful lot of the genre, living here in Japan, and not much of it is this good. That said, I think Uminga could make a killing if he sold his soul and produced a t-shirt line...which isn't exactly calling it great art, is it? *goes off to write a business proposal*

By: squasha

squasha — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:20:00 -0800

urgh. I meant "...more obviously status quo demonic..."

By: nímwunnan

nímwunnan — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:22:14 -0800

bizarre =! a collection of images and ideas popularly assumed to be bizarre predictable == a collection of images and ideas popularly assumed to be bizarre

By: renraw

renraw — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:28:55 -0800

Hm. This reminds me a whole lot of the Jhonen Vasquez comics I used to read when I was in high school. It doesn't seem to take it anywhere new, though.... Not really much Sendak in it either.

By: renraw

renraw — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:30:20 -0800

Didn't preview, good on aaronetc for calling it before me.

By: anthill

anthill — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:10:50 -0800

TODD GOLDMAN

By: fandango_matt

fandango_matt — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:13:06 -0800

This looks like something Todd Goldman copied.

By: fandango_matt

fandango_matt — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:13:39 -0800

Ah, anthill, you beat me to it...

By: Scoo

Scoo — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:25:44 -0800

Lame, cliched, faux edgy crap that hopefully is purged your freshman year at art school. Not this time, alas....

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:04:39 -0800

Todd Goldman, indeed. Just shit to add a trite LOLGOTH phrase beneath [in red Sand, of course] and sell on black t-shirts at Hot Topic.

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:21:55 -0800

Also, stop it with the references to "$childhoodMemory on $drug"

By: louche mustachio

louche mustachio — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:33:51 -0800

Reminds me rather strongly of Luke Chueh.

By: autodidact

autodidact — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:08:20 -0800

Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks this guy is an unoriginal hack.

By: mkultra

mkultra — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:26:09 -0800

Isn't Maurice Sendak on acid... Maurice Sendak?

By: elendil71

elendil71 — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:20:37 -0800

Echoing comments above, obviously influenced by the far better Jhonen Vasquez and perhaps a bit of Andrew Bell. Nothing special.

By: beefetish

beefetish — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:33:27 -0800

oh wow it's even less self-aware jhonen vasquez you do realize that jhonen vasquez is god-damned terrible too, right