A Softer World

"In the caves behind my house, I found a softer world. They understand what I had to do for love. They don't believe in restraining orders."  

 Since we have been discussion the notion of "what is art" in greater detail, I felt that it was time to introduce piece of art that touches my heart every time I look at it. Joey Comeau and Emily Horne have created a web comic that combines beautiful, ordinary, extraordinary photographs with texts. 

 The format is always the same: three little boxes, filled with pictures that either create a whole together or that reproduce enlarged versions of the last box. The boxes are also filled with words. Comeau knows how to use words. He makes observations about the world we live in and twists them until they are ironic, hurtful, mean, intoxicatingly sweet, lovely, funny or nostalgic. They can make you smile, laugh uncontrollably, cry or nod in agreement. 

 

 Joey and Emily are funny people, indeed. “A Softer World” is their side project, their hobby, into which they pour all their heart. Or as they call it: “A Softer World is a comic that was created by Emily Horne and Joey Comeau so that people would recognize them as important artistic geniuses.” The twist in Joey’s little texts is always unexpected and portrays a heap of black humour that can also be found in his other literature.

 "A softer World” may well be the most poetic web comic out there; at least it has the wittiest, most unusual words combined with seemingly unrelated pictures that depict everyday life in its most casual form. The juxtaposition of these pictures of everyday life with the texts that create surreal situations makes the comic (which is less a comic than a photo-collage-story) remarkably different. In a good way. 

 

Check out A Softer World !