Wondermark
RL’s yellow dot conspiracy theory reminded me of this…
David Malki !’s Wondermark is a great comic strip that repurposes old illustrations (often engravings) with hilarious results. From the website…
The images used to create Wondermark are culled largely from David’s collection of 19th-century books and periodicals, supplemented by primary sources from the Rare Books Dept. at the Los Angeles Central Library, as well as (in a shrinking number of cases) material from commercial clip-art collections.
In my mind, Wondermark is like a step-grandchild to Max Ernst’s collage novel Une Semaine de Bonté (currently on view at the Albertina Museum in Vienna). There are plenty of differences but both manage to breathe life into forgotten visual ephemera by repurposing it for a new audience. And maybe it goes without saying but both are dark and funny.
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