THE Banana/Skin JOKE
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THE Banana/Skin JOKE (c) Malcy Duff
THE Banana/Skin JOKE © Malcy Duff

THE Banana/Skin JOKE:
Malcy Duff

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Online Malcy at the Bugpowder Gallery
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A curious artifact, the sequence of flashing beams  from the light house turning round and round, illuminating a lone banana eater are completely evocative of that feeling of fear  and unease at being exposed in the darkness. There's a another sequence that runs like negatives of photographs over and over, trailing off into the distance, endlessly repeating the same joke again and again; the banana skin joke...
Something else that reaches out to me from this is how some of the panels and sequences have a real abstract quality to them, which really draws in the eye and had me turning the page around at 360 degrees to try and figure out quite how the image worked. Often these images are resolved into meaningful shapes and objects but occasionally panels remain ambiguous, constantly changing...
Hmmm, I'm still not quite sure what to make of this; from an artistic point of view its beautifully drawn and produced; but it seems like there's some deeper idea behind the story, but this is never presented to the reader in any discernible way, leaving you wondering if you missed something.

David Birchall

THE Banana/Skin JOKE:
16 A5 pages, card stock cover.
Price: £1.50
Smallzone
Received at ZUM! HQ:
12viii03
Review Posted:
26ii04
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