WOE.BEGONE

This comic is based on a poem I wrote about in February 2025 + a Nobody-centering parody of Heroin by the Velvet Underground I wrote in the spring. I collaged the pages July 2025 with these writings and Season 17 in mind. I finalized and lettered the text fairly recently. The secret full title is UNTITLED COMIC FOR AN UNTITLED MAN, but I kept it as UNTITLED within the zine, as I enjoy how that interacts with "[UNTITLED] traveler" on the first page.

Collaging is one of my favorite art forms and it felt right to use it for a WOE.BEGONE zine. These images (depictions of reality) have gone through countless cycles of selection, adjustments, and happenstance, all for them to end up in my collaging material pile. Unknowable ripples of humanity and time. You could say I have turned waste into beauty. You could also say I was at the mercy of vacation brochures, science magazines, and wrapping paper. The pages were scanned at like 720dpi and processed into 600dpi spreads. I'm sharing them here at 35% resize. Again, cycles of transformation. Processes of creation and destruction interplay.

I think it's the best art I made in 2025. It shows my experience with collage and balances the abstract with concrete elements very well. People are steered through a narrative, while still having the space to create their own associations and find some personal connection with one detail or another.