I finally took the time to scan all the books I made when I spent a semester in London.
The project was that there are real people and there are fictional people. And then there are those in between... taken from reality but added a little more flavor to. I decided to create completely fictional characters, with completely fictional lives and most importantly, deaths. Every story would start with the notion that this character is already dead. And each story would be told as a biographical account, dry and lacking in metaphors, therefore making it seem like a very true story, rather than fiction.
I created four books. Each book focuses on one fictional character and his "entourage". Each story is more and more bizarre, as the first story I wrote, Russell Brown, is very close to real life and could have happened anywhere. The last one, "Squirrel Guardian" is rather strange.
Here are scans of all 4 books, in order of strangeness (according to me.. not anyone else) and I apologize, scanning them was really hard because they were made on really fragile hand-made Indian paper but I tried my best to preserve the essence of not only the drawings and the words, but also the tactile factor of the books. After all, I made them completely by hand without any outside help!
Click on each image to see it in full size to be able to read it!
Russell Brown:
The project was that there are real people and there are fictional people. And then there are those in between... taken from reality but added a little more flavor to. I decided to create completely fictional characters, with completely fictional lives and most importantly, deaths. Every story would start with the notion that this character is already dead. And each story would be told as a biographical account, dry and lacking in metaphors, therefore making it seem like a very true story, rather than fiction.
I created four books. Each book focuses on one fictional character and his "entourage". Each story is more and more bizarre, as the first story I wrote, Russell Brown, is very close to real life and could have happened anywhere. The last one, "Squirrel Guardian" is rather strange.
Here are scans of all 4 books, in order of strangeness (according to me.. not anyone else) and I apologize, scanning them was really hard because they were made on really fragile hand-made Indian paper but I tried my best to preserve the essence of not only the drawings and the words, but also the tactile factor of the books. After all, I made them completely by hand without any outside help!
Click on each image to see it in full size to be able to read it!
Russell Brown:
Without a Twin
London Eye
Squirrel Guardian
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