End times

If you want to read an interesting book about the ends of times try “The Pursuit of the Millenium”. Here is a quote about the book. “The end of the millennium has always held the world in fear of earthquakes, plague, and the catastrophic destruction of the world. At the dawn of the 21st millennium the world is still experiencing these anxieties, as seen by the onslaught of fantasies of renewal, doomsday predictions, and New Age prophecies.
This fascinating book explores the millenarianism that flourished in western Europe between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries. Covering the full range of revolutionary and anarchic sects and movements in medieval Europe, Cohn demonstrates how prophecies of a final struggle between the hosts of Christ and Antichrist melded with the rootless poor’s desire to improve their own material conditions, resulting in a flourishing of millenarian fantasies.”

I have written several fictional accounts of the end of time or at least its perceived end. Try reading The Death of Lou Grant. Or The Box by Matthew Chambers.

Marty Gordon

‘Looking at one of his works is akin to peeking through a window into another world, a world where art, humor, faith, tension and candidness live together in vignettes of surreal commentary.” Using the genre of comic books, Gordon satirizes most everything. His work is big, irrelevant, and fun. The flip side is that his work (or what we see) is narrowly focussed.

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Bruce New

Variety, expansive imagination, innovative, craftsmanship, all are evident in Bruce New’s work. I am going to have to make a habit of returning to this artist’s sight.

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