"C"

A Story by Abishai100

Narrated portrait of an eccentric dystopian 'stick-figure artist' online, using doodles I myself made, inspired by Dr. Seuss!

A fanfiction nod to the dystopian work of Dr. Seuss. Hope you like it,

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My name is "C" (an alias given to me by my contemporaries). I'm the opposite of Thomas More. I don't write about Utopia. I make stick-figure doodles re-presenting a dystopian paranoia about the presence of villainy and insanity. That's why I sometimes dress up like a zany maudlin for my youth-art blogs.

I use only color-pencils for my stick-figure doodles, and my art captures the hellmouth of reality, which is why I draw inspiration from various noir-comics of modern times and horror-comics like Aeon Flux, The Maxx, Spawn, and Leatherface.

I basically translate the concepts of graphic monstrosity in modern graphic dystopian comics and re-interpret them for stick-figure doodles representing 'mental' dark magic behind strange consciousness or 'simplified' paranoia. I therefore find inspiration from very unusual modern graphic/dystopian comics imagery (e.g., Leatherface-Batman).

My Batman-Leatherface doodle represents the realism behind the darker and paranoid idea that Batman (DC Comics) can't really find much to do with his time but engage with very ugly or bizarre adversaries like the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface who, if it weren't for his chainsaw, would appear to be some kind of overgrown child-like mental retard.

I also take standard DC/Marvel avatars like Livewire/Carnage to re-present them as much more simplified dynamic stick-figure color-pencil colored in 'caricatures' capturing a general social paranoia about the unpredictable 'face' of these colorful but insane characters.

Some of my comic book doodles characterize the presence of the real feelings of rage and strange anger, almost as if these emotions are undeveloped or juvenile but certainly undeniable in terms of strange tangibility. My dystopian message is of course that the concept of darkness/evil is highlighted by the images/perceptions of recognizable insanity!

I made a stick-figure rendition of a very unusual chaotic red-and-blue 'dark city' lorded over by strange dark angels and an overlord wielding a neon-chainsaw, standing atop one of the big buildings in this dark city. The message of such a child-like eccentric image of a juvenile stick-figure city is to convey the idea that bloody murder, terrorism, narcotics, exploitation, betrayal, and hazing are natural 'elements' of the known civilization we must simply...adore.

Hey, we're all familiar with outline drawings of fantastic avatars portraying metaphysical ideas regarding the depth of human emotions or even the basic face of human anger/fury. However, my doodle-blogs are representative of a perception of the undeniable aspects of inescapable duty.

Here's a reinterpretation of Catwoman (DC Comics) drawn as an androgynous apathetic witness of general modern criminal-insanity, meant to provoke the child-like question, "Is evil real simply because we often color it as...devilish?"

I also like making alternative versions of the villain Riddler, a man who makes mind-riddle death-mazes for superheroes, so I mutate him into more obese renditions of himself, meant to ask the question, "Are villains truly satisfied with themselves?"

My favorite villain-stick doodle is of the Hobgoblin, a jet-glider soaring pumpkin-bomb throwing maniac in the American city who's once a prominent fashion-designer. I portray the Hobgoblin in this stick-doodle as a messenger of the inescapable face of modern antisocial isolationism...and goofiness. My point is of course that darkness may come with the appearance of profitable innocence!

"If the dark city is a mosaic for speed-racing capitalism pirates, let's make graphics about the roads to prayer" (C).

I read in the news the other day a bank robbing crew called Red Hood Gang stole blood-diamonds (terrorism-financing gems) from a Vancouver bank using toy water-guns filled with acid, and I wondered, "Maybe I'd draw a stick-figure rendition of the Red Hood wielding toy machine-guns in a presentation about the 'transference' of ego obligations."