Favorites from “Ignore Everybody”, 1998-2008

Posted: November 6, 2013 | Author: Hugh MacLeod | Filed under: #hughcards, 2009, favorites | Tags: #hughcards, art, marfa, New York | Comments Off

[These are some of my favorite business-card cartoons ever; they all appeared in my first book, “Ignore Everybody”, and were all drawn in that first decade between 1997-2008. These are the seminal ones; this is as good as my work ever got etc.]

Page 88 (drawings from 1997)

Posted: September 15, 2013 | Author: Hugh MacLeod | Filed under: #hughcards, 1997 | Tags: #hughcards, art, marfa, New York | Comments Off

[Two of the very, very earliest bizcard drawings. New York City, December 1997. N.B. As the very fist one was drawn on the 28th of December, the number of drawings completed before January 1st, 1998 is tiny. Maybe a dozen.]

angry young man

i washed away the past

about

[CONTACT: gapingvoid@gmail.com]
“Since 1997 I’ve drawn thousands of “Hughcards” [cartoons drawn on the backs of business card], just to give me something to do while sitting at the bar. Over time they have become increasingly religious and or meditative, over time they became ‘Cathedrals’."

(What is a "Cathedral”?)

A “Cathedral” is a series of x-hundred smaller, business-car “Hughcard” drawings (number per piece varies), forming a single piece under a single pane of glass.

“Cathedral” is a metaphor for a Holy Place, where the spirit goes to be amplified through contemplation.. The pieces are designed to generate a state of contemplation in the viewer.

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Thanks for visiting,

- Hugh MacLeod,

Raleigh, NC