It’s been a long week. Luck­ily, my cal­en­dar tells me it’s Fri­day, and so that auto­mat­i­cally sets the day in the right direc­tion. You know what else is mak­ing my morn­ing a lit­tle brighter? The work of Patrick Kyle.

Patrick cre­ates images that are sur­real and set in motion by his sense of char­ac­ter devel­op­ment. He intro­duces us to dis­gust­ingly strong weight-lifters, giants, sourcers, and gen­eral michevi­ous­ness. He’s reimag­ined our sterotypes of these char­ac­ters. They are a bit more vis­ceral and sub­ver­sive, more con­cerned with break­ing con­ven­tions. I can’t help but be reminded of the car­toon Ren and Stimpy, espe­cially with some of the more graphic imagery.

I’ve writ­ten about Ginette Lapalme pre­vi­ously, and she and Patrick work closely together in the same col­lec­tive — Wowee Zonk. You can buy their zine, Pobody’s Nur­fect, a col­lec­tion of the work that the mem­bers have pro­duced together.

All images via his web­site.