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Toc Fetch
interprets the comic book as a mature art form. The drawings, which
are produced very large, and in excruciating detail in pencil, depict one
chapter of the stories from Fetch’s comic strip. Essentially magnifying
individual panels of a narrative body of work, this work elevates the oeuvre of
comic strip to art form without diminishing the quality of the image or losing
track of an engaging storyline.
Entitled “Kids of Lower Utopia,” the story tells of River Finnegan, a woman in
her forties coming to terms with her soul personified as a wolf. The
verse is presented in haiku-like conversations, and the imagery recalls
cinematic photo stills infused with the fantasy of a skilled artist.
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