Matt Furie

May 20, 2008 9:18 PM

The Art of Matt Furie (many images NSFW)
posted by puke & cry (23 comments total)

Eponysterical.
posted by nicwolff at 9:30 PM on May 20, 2008 [2 favorites]

Matt Furie will be in the next Meathaus anthology, Meathaus S.O.S.

Thanks!!
posted by not_on_display at 9:35 PM on May 20, 2008

Not Matt Furey. Got it.
posted by blixco at 9:43 PM on May 20, 2008 [1 favorite]

Here's a yes or no interview with the artist.
posted by msaleem at 9:59 PM on May 20, 2008

I feel like I'm back in high school, doodling in my notebook.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 10:13 PM on May 20, 2008

There's a couple other interviews and a video on his bio page.
posted by puke & cry at 10:14 PM on May 20, 2008

Someone pass the eyewash and a squeegee please. Thanks.
posted by CuJoe at 10:51 PM on May 20, 2008

I don't like it at all.
posted by ZaneJ. at 1:04 AM on May 21, 2008

Not Safe For Sanity is more like it.
posted by hwestiii at 2:35 AM on May 21, 2008

Good-freaky.
posted by Drexen at 3:12 AM on May 21, 2008

Took me, like, three hours to finish the shading on your upper lip.
It's probably the best drawing I've ever done.
posted by kcds at 3:27 AM on May 21, 2008 [2 favorites]

At first glance I was, "yeah, wotever". Then I looked again, now I'm hooked. This is fantastic (literally, yes, but still) stuff. Thanks for the post.
posted by freya_lamb at 4:06 AM on May 21, 2008

I went to college with this guy, but I didn't know him well (although we both dated the same girl and it was a very small school, so you know something about everyone). From what I remember of his work then, he has always mined this sort of creepy fantastical vein. And I was always jealous of his name.
posted by Falconetti at 5:22 AM on May 21, 2008

Take one part Monster Manual, one part Muppet Show, one part Crumb, sprinkle liberally with LSD while playing the Hevy Metal soundtrack and voila!
posted by Pollomacho at 5:29 AM on May 21, 2008 [1 favorite]

Awesome! His site is hosted by a friend of mine who runs a small press, Better Non Sequitur and also a short fiction site, Pequin (1000 words or less!)
posted by beerbajay at 5:51 AM on May 21, 2008

P: ... Is there more to your work than strange creature creation, non sequitur juxtapositions, and irony?

MF: No.

Big points for honesty.
posted by rusty at 6:10 AM on May 21, 2008

I forgot that when I was in college I was an editor for the literary journal and we published some of his art (nobody read or bought the literary journal we produced). I hope he gets really famous, because I am probably one of a handful of people that actually still have those journals. I also meant to mention before that I like his work, especially because he doesn't seem to try to overlay it with meaning and it seems to come straight from the his psyche.
posted by Falconetti at 7:49 AM on May 21, 2008

Reminiscent of good high-school doodling, sure, but I liked it a lot. My fave.
posted by everichon at 7:54 AM on May 21, 2008

It's as though Lynda Barrie were doing graphic novels for Stephen King.
posted by i_am_joe's_spleen at 12:19 PM on May 21, 2008

That was very cool, thanks for the post.

This one is awesome. It lured me in... "Aww, look! It's a cute little monster reading a book!" Click. "Aww, look! There's a severed limb hanging above his head! And what's his cute little friend eating?" Heh. Good stuff.

This was by far my favorite, though.
posted by TrinaSelwyn at 12:24 PM on May 21, 2008

Fantastical + horrifying = brilliant reminds me of the Perry Bible Fellowship
posted by adamms222 at 1:30 PM on May 21, 2008

Wulffmorgenthaler for daily mind-bending weirdness.
posted by five fresh fish at 6:29 PM on May 21, 2008

I just noticed that his comics weren't actually on that site I linked to. They're on his myspace blog. Might want to check those out too.
posted by puke & cry at 9:12 PM on May 21, 2008