It illustrates rather well the mild revelation I experienced this weekend when I walked through the MIA looking for inspiration for composing images of drama and humor. I was mainly looking for things that would resemble the epic moment, and here, I came upon, again and again, images that while serious in their historical context, seemed overplayed, absurd, and ultimately humorous in their contemporary setting.
I think this comic does a great way of summing that up quickly.
...Anyway.
I have some issues with the similarities in my own work and Neely's work, so I'll just get them off my chest here and be done with it. I base an awful lot of my work off of his, because it is so accessible to my own personal tastes in drawing. I am deeply influenced by various other artists as well, David Shrigley, Marcel Dzama, and the creators of South Park to name a few, but it is often most rewarding and sometimes more personal for me to go to Neely's work first. He lives in Austin, Texas and is friends with a few of my own friends, so I guess there's got to be at least some similarities in our particular interests. Additionally, Shrigley is from Glasgow, Dzama is from Winnipeg, and the Southpark guys, being TV and not necessarily one person all make it harder to connect to these people on a regional-personal level.
Enough of that.
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