Imaginary Homework
Theo Ellsworth
www.thoughtcloudfactory.com
This zine is another offering from the Zine O Matic pack that arrived on Aussie shores a couple months back.
Imaginary Homework is a comic zine filled with imaginary homework assignments and actually started out as a real homework assignment for students of a workshop back in 2009. While ‘homework’ would seem to put a damper on anything, this zine goes to show that it can actually be pretty cool and amazing. (At least, when it’s imaginary.)
Each page has an imaginary assignment for you. From imagining interactions with the creatures pictured to contemplating metaphoricals like “Suppose you could have all of the answers right now…”
There’s something about the art in this zine that really draws me in. I think it’s all the complexity and little lines used to create each illustration. (Take a closer look at the cover as well as the picture above.) Each assignment is paired with an illustration that goes with the assigned task but also does even more to encourage the imagination of the reader.
I find myself actually wanting to do some of these ‘assignments’. Far out.
I think this is definitely a zine to keep and one that I will be reading again more than once.
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