The Necrophilic Landscape is an assemblage of rescued online work by the late artist Morgan Vogel (née Caroline Bren) that has been reformatted for print. It presents a weird, cryptic, obscure, and absurd vision of late capitalism that is part William Burroughs's Wild Boys, and part Henry Darger's "Story of the Vivian Girls" (with soundtrack provided by Funkadelic's America Eats Its Young). The panels alternate between text-heavy and text-free, with each accompanied by densely drawn art that is engaged in a heroic struggle to articulate that which the text cannot, leaving it up to the reader to forge the necessary synthesis of meaning.
Includes several photographs, a brief text by the author, and an "afterwards" by editor, Raighne Hogan.
Added bonus: provides readers with a new twist on the epithet "dickhead" that won't be soon forgotten.
8" x 8" | 48 pages | B & W (w/ color photographs)