The Artist

[Abishai100]

Abcd



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"Ajay Satan collected jpg images of modern comic-book art off Google. He enjoyed how comic-book media represented 21st Century traffic IQ and youthful imagination. To Ajay, comic-book art symbolized lifestyle creativity."



"Ajay Satan went so far as to make Internet-blogs with pictures of him in funny masks posed as a vigilante! In these society-critique blogs, Ajay talked about the accessibility of justice folklore and why comic-books, which re-presented fantastic social justice avatars such as Captain America and Catwoman, revealed a modern fascination with outrageous courage! Ajay was a new age Thomas Nast."



"Ajay wanted his democracy-idealism blogs, which sometimes featured the comic-book art he'd collected over the years, to be talked about in popular American fanzines and newspaper society editorials. He wanted more people to appreciate why, say, Captain America was a 'Golem' of patriotic fervor in the halls of anti-terrorism rhetoric. He wanted audiences to consider what kinds of civilians would be considered 'media faces' of modern intelligence."



"Of course, everyone knew how comic-book art had become an American phenomenon and boasted incredible cartoon-friendly 'superheroes' such as Mighty Mouse and Wonder Woman who'd be referenced by future anthropologists as 'avatars' of social fitness. After all, comic-book art was a hallmark of American imagination, so Ajay Satan was a prototypical 'cartoon lawyer' hyping youthful media. Was he an artist or a media 'sculptor' of mob psychology language?"



"Ajay Satan met a beautiful Western actress who worked on various cowboy films and was intrigued by his Internet-blogs about modern comic-book art related rhetoric. This actress was concerned that Ajay was re-presenting ideas online about the social appeal of a very inventive medium which she hoped could be tied into cowboy adventure movies! After all, cowboy folklore preceded comic-book art, so Ajay wanted to follow her advice about new age academics. Art, was after all, a very ideological adventure."



"Ajay next met a bright aspiring Dutch comic-book publisher named Roy Kuyt who'd inherited the publishing company from his father who was killed in a set accident during a comic-book movie filming in Holland. Kuyt wanted to honor his father's enterprise by hyping Ajay Satan as a 21st Century society cheerleader. He wanted audiences to appreciate why comic-book art was so aesthetic-destined!"



"Ajay decided to write an editorial in Kuyt's Dutch fanzine about the role of potential inventive cowboy comic-book stories in re-presenting politically troubling Western history subjects such as the genocide of Native-Americans and if comic-books could bring back a social sense of democratic comfort. After all, comic-books reached mass audiences and were inexpensive and could therefore be cast as street-theater! A cowboy comic-book just might appeal to a modern civilization youngster interested in progressive folk-tales. This wasn't blasphemy."



"Ajay decided to then connect with the Christian Coalition for a vision of a new religious comic-book hero who'd champion social virtue and devotion to the Bible. This new avatar would parallel the popularity of the new eco-conscious comic-book avatar Captain Planet! Ajay was thrilled by the notion that everyday civilians could use art to promote modern truisms. Art was...clean!"



"However, audiences also craved graphic content in modern art/cinema, and the demand for 'voluptuous' entertainment never disappeared! How would comic-book art, youthful in scope, be coordinated with adult-audience folklore? Why would college students be more interested in Captain America than Playboy Magazine? Did Ajay Satan need to hype 'liberal' capitalism?"



"Ajay Satan decided to attend a comic-book conference celebrating the role of women in comic-book media! He met a gorgeous thespian who happened to be a huge fan of the offbeat American comic-book super-heroine Scarlet Witch (Marvel Comics). Ajay realized there was a hidden 'magic' in the democracy of modern art marketing and wondered more seriously now how he'd contribute to this new arena of inventive patriotism!"



AJAY SATAN: "The really magnificent thing about the comic-book art world is that it promotes everyday people to become youthful witnesses of a truly people-friendly diarism. The avatars celebrated in comic-book art invite people to daydream youthfully about what defines modern social participation! That's why my personal adoration of comic-books really makes me feel like I myself am some kind of comic-book 'scholar'...or artist."

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[Abishai100]

Sorry, I'd intended to include a preface-intro to explain my goal in this final post on Superhero Hype forums, but I forgot in all my enthusiasm to write the story itself!

This semi-autobiographical tale presents why I think modern comic-book fanfare reflects an American celebration of inventive social rhetoric and was inspired by the film comics: Beyond the Comic Book Pages (2014)!

 

[Abishai100]

Endangered


I thought I'd add an extra byte about the intrigue associated with political biases in the modern world of comic-book related design, though I've added intentional humor/hyperbole since comic-books are meant to be rascal-friendly!



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"It was St. Patrick's Day, and the Museum of Modern Art in America was flying in a very expensive sculpture of an Irish green bird from Belfast titled Endangered. However, Ajay Satan's evil twin-brother Simian intended to steal the valuable work of art to make a statement about avant-garde Irish politics that would draw attention to the problems of modern governance and our preoccupation with 'toys'."



"The Irish green bird sculpture ('Endangered') was estimated to be worth over $4.5 million. Simian Satan and his two accomplices intended to recruit a security-guard working in the museum and threaten to blow up the guard's house if she didn't let Simian and his two accomplices enter late at night after hours. Simian would scramble the museum computer security system 2 hours prior to the heist."



"The female security-guard working at the museum after hours on the night of the heist was an Irish-American named Teresa Sheridan who used to work as a street-cop in Dublin and then in Manhattan after moving to the USA. Teresa lived alone but didn't want to test Simian's deadly threat that he'd blow up her house. She had no choice really!"



"Simian Satan had worked as a small-time crook and then a gun-runner for the PIRA (Provisional Irish Republican Army) in Northern Ireland before deciding to perform a media-attention grabbing heist in America, and the sculpture 'Endangered' was the perfect trophy, since it symbolized modern angst towards life on Earth amidst great sociopolitical madness! Simian Satan was on course to become the absolute antithesis of his art-world comic-book marketing romantic brother Ajay."



"Ajay respected Scotland Yard police in London, while his twin-brother Simian despised them! Simian wanted a heist that would be talked about extensively in The Post."



"Simian Satan had two female accomplices. One was a beach-TV model from Australia named Yas who wanted a more 'irrational' life and thought Simian's art-heist was simply thrilling. This would be a great boon for Yas!"



"The other female accomplice was an Algerian named Shazia who was a big fan of horror-comics and liked Simian's anarchistic attitude towards mainstream art subversion. Shazia wanted a cool mask to wear to the museum!"



"Well, Simian, Yas, and Shazia entered the Museum of Modern Art at 3 am and lifted the Belfast sculpture 'Endangered' and carried it to their van parked in the rear of the museum building! Simian left a phone-photo of two women in rabbit-masks with the museum security-guard Teresa Sheridan so she'd present the sardonic image of terrorism to The Post."



"The next month, The Post ran a huge feature on America's response to the theft of the Belfast sculpture 'Endangered' and its impact on Irish politics in D.C. The story featured images of possible Irish comic-book characters that PIRA would use to lambaste the tomfoolery of 'political art' becoming trophies for punk-rock comedy! Was this a new kind of political cartoon?"



"DC Comics printed a special feature of the superhero Green Lantern serving as a 21st Century representative of democracy in Northern Ireland. Simian, Yas, and Shazia succeeded in using art to create social activity about modern political gossip! Simian's brother Ajay meanwhile was busy hyping the Green Lantern comics about using avatars to celebrate modern journalism. This was 'high art'... right?"



"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God" (Matthew 5).

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[Abishai100]

Cyclonus



Here's one extra tidbit about modern sociopolitical critique and its relation to American paranoia, inspired by the film Toys (1992).



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"Ajay Satan hoped to respond to the social worry that the comic-book art-world could produce as much tension and subversion because of political biases (e.g. 'The St. Patrick's Day Heist') as it could civilization idealism (e.g., patriotic Captain America fanzines). Therefore, he decided to cast a fictional wolffish comic-book/cartoon A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) robot named Cyclonus, a laser-enhanced jet-fighter first-knight warrior/assassin, as a society 'avatar' signifying new fears of terrorism. With Cyclonus, Ajay could blog on the Internet about the modern appeal of subversion-robotics storytelling in regards to the marketing of comic-books and robot-toys. This would effectively make Cyclonus a symbol of imagination psychiatry, thereby offering audiences creativity-oriented remedies to the malady of anti-commerce dialogue."



AJAY: Thanks for meeting with me, Mr. President!
TRUMP: Welcome to the White House, Ajay.
AJAY: Your secretary explained your interest!
TRUMP: Yes, Ajay, I wanted to chat about your Cyclonus work.
AJAY: Right, sir; I created a terrorism mosaic about him in a fanzine!
TRUMP: It seems Cyclonus symbolizes modern governance intrigue.
AJAY: Yes, he's useful for writings about terrorism and capitalism!
TRUMP: Do you intend to compare him to a pirate?
AJAY: It does seem that pirate-folklore works with capitalism-cartoons!
TRUMP: In that case, why don't you stir up some Cyclonus political cartoons.
AJAY: What should I talk about, Mr. President?
TRUMP: Ajay, you can talk about the aesthetics of American ideology.
AJAY: Who's our real enemy?
TRUMP: Cobra --- a radical new super-terrorist group emerging in Arabia!
AJAY: Arabia, sir?
TRUMP: Yes, 'Arabia' still refers to 'Middle Eastern legalese' (and bias)!
AJAY: Wow, maybe I should write about Cyclonus making war in Arabia.
TRUMP: That sounds clever; make sure you talk about the White House.
AJAY: I'll cast a story about Cyclonus threatening American tourism!
TRUMP: Sounds cool, Ajay; always nice to connects with pedestrian artists!
AJAY: Thanks so much, sir; my new blog will address Cobra and Wall Street.
TRUMP: Ajay, a good political cartoonist should talk about modern paranoia.
AJAY: That's why I love comic-book art --- it helps us address uncomfortable fears!
TRUMP: I really look forward to reading something about Captain America, Ajay.
AJAY: I'll put it on my priorities list, Mr. President.
TRUMP: Excellent, Ajay; remember, son, we have to reach our kids!
AJAY: Isn't that the ultimate ideal of creative-thinking --- education?
TRUMP: Let's hope so, and keep thinking about terrorism folk-tales!
AJAY: My job, sir, is to understand the modern social intellect.
TRUMP: That's what I like hearing from today's patriotic artists!

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[Abishai100]

Brain-Man


Finally, a final piece incorporating my own view on the 'modern art' of comic-book democracy!

Signing off,



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After Ajay concluded his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, he made a series of patriotic political cartoons about terrorism, Cyclonus, and Captain America. He started enjoying the idea of using comic-book art/rhetoric to talk about social values. However, that's when Ajay realized he wanted to now make some real comic-book art of his own and began taking stock of his politically complicated life!



Ajay made a nifty color-pencil doodle-sketch of an original terrorist-villain avatar named Brain-Man whose nuclear-radiation caused physical deformity rendered him a special but bizarre brain-head shaped mutant! Brain-Man wore a suit and cape and carried a dagger and finger-blades and terrorized people working in American industrial factories in cities like Chicago and Detroit. Ajay used Brain-Man to talk about the need for modern eco-pollution consciousness!



Ajay's comic-book friendly Brain-Man avatar made a nice splash in the subculture world of online fanzines and drew the attention of Hollywood (USA) super-celebrity Leo DiCaprio who wanted to reference and use Brain-Man in his new eco-activism Captain Planet movie! Leo altered Ajay's color-drawing to make it black-and-white and give it a more dream-like sarcastic quality for some pre-filming presentation work for his Captain Planet project. Suddenly, Brain-Man was the toast of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation.



At a special Captain Planet movie-project conference, Russian tennis superstar and Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova showed up to talk about movie-actors working with celebrity athletes in social activism! Ajay was invited to the conference to listen to what folks were saying about Brain-Man, but more or less, Ajay felt like the 'big wheels' of art and society publishing were turning on their own and through the able hands of others, since his Brain-Man color-drawing was so radically altered by the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation which had opted to make Brain-Man black-and-white to make the avatar more dialogue-friendly! Sharapova was interested to see how all the Brain-Man eco-talk would catalyze more media-world progressive research.



Ajay noticed at the conference that there were numerous quality comic-book artists who also wanted to provide DiCaprio's Captain Planet movie evocative and useful avatars. One artist, for example, offered his ingenious rendering of the anarchist-villain duo from DC Comics, Joker and Harley Quinn, for a Captain Planet billboard about American youngsters getting actively involved in modern discussions about urban loitering.



AJAY: This is an impressive conference, Leo!
LEO: Thanks, man; I'm psyched about the spotlight.
AJAY: It's cool Sharapova showed up.
LEO: We want focus on social activism!
AJAY: Yes, art should foster modern imagination.
LEO: Your Brain-Man will be very handy.
AJAY: I hope the avatar will create chat about America!
LEO: Yes, Americans like inventive politics.
AJAY: In America, art can serve the masses.
LEO: True; maybe we'll invest in serious political movies!
AJAY: Maybe Brain-Man will become the new Gumby!
LEO: Anything is possible with art.
AJAY: God bless America!
LEO: We have to learn from the errors of humanity, Ajay.
AJAY: Man, I was almost going to become a banker.
LEO: No way, dude...you're a 'real' artist.

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[Abishai100]

Nintendo!


One addendum to lighten up this otherwise 'philosophical thread' about the inventiveness of modern imagination markets that makes art feel more...democratic.



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Actress Charlize Theron was in Las Vegas promoting the move of the Raiders (NFL) team to the casino-city and what it might mean for 21st Century sports-fanfare advertisements!



Theron had been a Raiders fan since Super Bowl XV, when Coach Madden took his team to new heights, leading them to triumph over the mighty Philadelphia Eagles.



Theron was therefore promoting Raiders merchandising and creative memorabilia and crafts since the NFL team was moving to Vegas and was looking for exciting media faces to cheer on the symbolic and historic shift in the Raiders organization!



Theron's nephew was a big Nintendo video-game fan and owned a classic NES system with the iconic Tecmo Bowl NFL video-game which featured a very talented Raiders team, boasting the legendary running-backs Bo Jackson and Marcus Allen! Theron's nephew went to Vegas with his aunt and was showcasing Raiders NES gameplay in front of a somewhat large Vegas Raiders fanfare crowd interested in inventive merchandising!



The classic NES video-game system was a hallmark in 1990s consumerism and reminded people of the joy of playing or recreating sports thrills virtually on a computer-screen!



Ironically, Ajay Satan was also at the Vegas Raiders event and was showcasing black-and-white Harley Quinn (DC Comics) art which could be used for creative pro-Raiders logo hyping or even Raiders mascot reinventions! This drew the interest of Theron who decided to sign onto a new Harley Quinn film about terrorism at the Super Bowl!



LEO DICAPRIO: "I'm pleased to see so many fresh faces getting deeply involved in the modern world of creative/inventive 'folk-art' or comic-book media which is clearly compatible with commerce or consumerism imagination and therefore with art marketing! If this is the age of 'folk politics' because of inventive social media utility, then perhaps the modern artist, like a thespian or an engineer, is something like a...pedestrian banshee."

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[Abishai100]

Lotto

I feel so extremely pleased with this thread that I thought I ought to add a special segment about the accessibility of comic-book art decision-making!



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"Ajay Satan wanted to connect sports to comic-book art after he was inspired by the media work with celebrity Charlize Theron and the Raiders. He decided to write about Lotto soccer-cleats and their marketability with the Gray Goblin (Marvel Comics), since the villain-avatar symbolized the agility in urban environments, and Lotto prided itself over the production of agility-enhancing soccer-cleats. Ajay wanted to make soccer fun for kids who liked comic books and decided to present himself as an entertainment cheerleader!"



"Lotto had become a very successful soccer-cleat manufacturer and was open to the idea of a comic-book fanzine writer/cheerleader who could hype their shoes on the Internet using a Marvel Comics drawing."



"Ajay's friend sent him an Internet photo of a sexy woman with pink hair, a real eccentric, who was trying to use merchandising to link cartoons with sports! She was in a position to facilitate the marketing of youth-consumer goods with aesthetics value, since she was tied to a new sports-candy company called Rascals."



"Ajay sent this market-savvy woman a photo of his color-pencil outline doodle-drawing of the Gray Goblin (Marvel Comics) so she'd help him create a marketing portfolio for Lotto. She used Ajay's Gray Goblin to make a kids' sports-candy commercial that Lotto could endorse for its sales of soccer-cleats to American soccer youth-league clubs. Suddenly, Lotto was 'in the mix' with modern youth consumerism."



"Ajay's clever decision led to other comic-book artists seeking to reference symbolic avatars in new age sports markets, and everyone was talking about how athletes could be cast as superheroes to a consumer generation interested in the color of fitness."



AJAY: "If comic-book art can be connected to social fitness, perhaps capitalism itself can feel like a 'dungeon' game!"

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[Abishai100]

St. Patrick's Day



A personally important caveat about the thoughtful magic of human superstition!



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Ajay came up with the eccentric plan to follow a celebrity whom he was convinced was a real-life superhero! Ajay was convinced this man had the keys to magic and wanted to honor him with the keys to American comic-book art!



Ajay used a doodle of a Marvel goblin to suggest in his comic-book fanzine that the celebrity he was following, who happened to be Irish, would offer something really supernatural on St. Patrick's Day!



Well, Ajay tracked this fascinating celebrity to a charity event at a neon lit Bank of America building on St. Patrick's Day.



Ajay noticed that the celebrity walked into the bathroom and stayed there for quite a while and in his place exited a hooded man in a hockey-mask wielding an assembled water-pistol with internal metal tubes and carrying corrosive acid. This ghoul announced to the crowd in the Bank of America building, in a raspy voice, that he intended to steal the $6 million green emerald from Ireland out on display at the charity event on this St. Patrick's Day and if anyone tried to stop him, he'd spray the priceless emerald with the corrosive acid in his water-pistol, rendering it useless! This master-thief explained he intended to sell the emerald in the black market and donate the booty to children in Ireland afflicted with AIDS. No one dared to get in this eerie masked man's way! On his way out, the masked man gave an eerie hand-wave at the window, and someone took a photo of him with an iPhone!



It turned out that two months later, an anonymous donor gifted a children's AIDS charity in Ireland by leaving money at the institution front-doorstep next to a portrait of a bright green fairy signifying St. Patrick's Day magic.



Ajay decided to attend a later charity event in California where the same male celebrity he'd been following attended with an attractive horror-film actress who was to appear in a new leprechaun horror-movie! Ajay had theories about why this man he was tracking was consistently interested in Irish culture and media.



Ajay theorized this celebrity was friends with super-celebrity Tom Cruise who was actively involved in politics. Ajay reasoned that there was a pro-democratic secret celebrity club in Hollywood catering to progressive politics which why the male celebrity he was following who Ajay thought was a real-life 'superhero' was tied to these passionate media figures. After all, Hollywood was all about social flair...and fantastic style!



Ajay learned the male celebrity he'd been following was the real-life Green Lantern, a man who wielded a green power-ring that rendered him invincible!



This superhero celebrity did indeed belong to a celebrity club whose members comprised a secret real-life Green Lantern Corps (GLC)!



The GLC sought to use Robin Hood heroism to bring attention to sociopolitical problems such as the unemployment of Irish Catholics in Belfast (Northern Ireland). Ajay knew this was a time of fantastic daydreams.



AJAY: "If superheroes themselves are artists, they may seek to use wits and magic to bring special kinds of Earth fortune on valuable occasions such as St. Patrick's Day."

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[Abishai100]

Kane


One witty section, a society parody loosely-inspired by the film Raising Arizona.



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Ajay decided to open a JVC stereo-store in NYC using all the money he'd earned and saved up with his fanzine activities and media endorsements! Ajay wanted to translate his interests in sociopolitical art into commercial American merchandising. After all, Americans embraced traffic multitasking. He started making Internet ads of his stereo-store with photos of himself as a modern-day Rockefeller, a real man of civilization imaginations!



The JVC stereo-store Ajay opened in NYC was featured in an episode of The David Letterman Show during which Ajay stated that the spiritual aesthetic reward of 21st Century capitalism was in the celebration of hygienic merchandising. When Letterman asked Ajay how merchandising was linked to cartoons/comics/art, Ajay said the magic was in the electricity!



Ajay had a gorgeous new girlfriend named Jan who was a great support for him and his various American material and aesthetic enterprises. Jan knew Ajay was a real artist at heart and promoted his new JVC stereo-store by appearing in capitalism rhetoric events in D.C. hosted by the Republican Party.



Ajay's ex-girlfriend Janet had become a hot MTV music-video model after Ajay's folk-popular comic book art Internet fanzines became recognized by MTV fans. Janet exploited Ajay's newfound popularity to make herself an MTV face, but Ajay knew he'd have to get over this loss so he could focus on the commerce-symbolic American pageantry of his new merchandising-symbolic JVC stereo-store in NYC. Janet was a real crush to Ajay's mission!



However, Janet wasn't the only stumbling-stone in Ajay's path towards American commentary. A set-employee of a recent horror-film was an MTV fanatic and noticed Ajay's comic book art Internet fanzines being boasted on an MTV commerce documentary. This deranged movie-studio employee, Kane, saw Ajay's JVC stereo-store being hyped on The David Letterman Show and decided he'd stalk Ajay and his new media-glowing girlfriend Jan.



Ajay got multiple death-threat emails from Kane and became frightened about his commercial merchandising enterprise in NYC and the media attention it was receiving. Ajay decided to put on a mask, not unlike the one his evil bank-robbing twin brother Simian wore while stealing an Irish sculpture from an American art museum on St. Patrick's Day, and posted a blog on the Internet about new age psychoses related to modern American heresy. Ajay hoped this sort of social dialogue would draw attention towards the traffic problem of anti-capitalism fury!



Ajay decided to appear on The David Letterman Show again to showcase his incredible new collection of European soccer-star trading-cards! Ajay told David Letterman that his interests in the modern aesthetics of commercial entertainment reflected the potential of using social network activities such as sports to glorify new age democracy. After all, TV was a new kind of 'art' and warranted protection from anti-tourism terrorism.



Ajay got a beautiful vintage JVC stereo for his new girlfriend Jan. He told her he'd advertise his successful JVC stereo-store in NYC with careful attention to the important details of traffic ornamentation security, lest more terrorists like the hideous Kane decided to threaten Ajay's sense of aesthetic American optimism!



Ajay's harrowing tale was featured in the new Captain America film, and Ajay was compared to the political cartoonist Thomas Nast and the aviation celebrity Charles Lindbergh. The Captain America film highlighted Ajay's contributions to new age traffic propaganda. This was the real 'art' of American comic-book democracy --- hype!



AJAY SATAN: "I just want to be remembered as an artist, not a target!"

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