looking at the tarot project, which i still haven't given a proper name to, as a whole, meditating on balance
i think i've got something going on. i think i'm bringing the notions to fruition. the series is still only a quarter-way to realized. only the major arcana are developed. the individual suits will take a moment. but i figure prints of the arcana will be a good foothold to launch the initial print run of full-size reproductions. i'm only selling pencil prints for a select few of the major arcana; it will not be all 22
22. let's focus on that number for just a moment, shall we? the tarot numbers the major arcana at 0-21. what else has 22 as a baseline? the 22-page comic pamphlet
that was the reason i started this whole damn thing, i recall. the idea that the tarot is just a story that explains itself asynchronous-ly. so i started drawing them. the first one was simple enough. i just stunt casted michael moorcock's queer spirit of our aeon, jerry cornelius, as the fool. there's a nice picture by mal dean of jerry dressed very improbably & making a war face as he brandished a hawk, a bat, and some nice flowers wrapped in newspaper while a violin dangled from a literal noose, strung from his elbow
* jerry is notable for being a comic book character first & a creature of letters second
i'm pretty proud of the shoes in that picture. that's some tasty ink. but where was i? the series
yeah, 22 panels for a comic told out of order. that was the original notion. a story that would tell itself to you anew every time you did a tarot reading. and, hopefully, a jump start on financing the rest of deck, and printing the tarot cards themselves
i might, just for a larf, print up the arcana as a comic. i'd do my best to randomize the 22. that'd be a good way to test the quality of the fine detail work in reduction. i'm doing some really ornate touches and i know that stuff's gonna vanish when it's shrunk to tarot scale, so, yeah. a randomized "comic" isn't entirely masturbatory cashgrab, methinx
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