Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Jeve & Steve: A Graphic Novel on Horological Myth

For some Time now, I've been focusing a large part of my creative energies on producing a Postmodern myth. It has been a huge undertaking, investing thousands of hours in developing a large cast of characters, a meaningful outline moving over 36 individual issues and through six chapters, a novel font called "Leaf", a new artistic style, and of course a syncretic narrative that borrows quite broadly from many of the world's ancient civilizations.

This novel serves many of my aims as an artist-creator, but above all, it sets forth some of my most basic theories on how the concept of Time came into being. Despite being a light-hearted fiction, it plies quite close to a rigorous examination of the hermeneutical operations that make for engaging and lasting myth, as well as a clarification of some of the strongest undercurrents of religious speculation. My hope is that reading this narrative will offer a fresh and illuminating perspective on the ancient role that horology played in laying the foundations of history, and will give us a broader sense of the drives that continue to bring religious thinking back into the fold of human societies. 

Just to give you a taste of what I'm up to, here's a detail from the first page of the Macrogenesis, the Cosmogonic Myth which describes the generations of horological deities leading up to Jeve & Steve's own birth: 

Father Time & Mother Nature combine to produce the form of Death. 

The mythical elements of this story have exploded into a form that I could never have anticipated. The system I'm using for writing this story is surpassing my every expectation, which in itself is suggestive of why so many authors in times past have utilized it. There is much still to come, and yet so much has already been accomplished here, that I'm quite hopeful for what still lay ahead.