DONKEY HEAD

What is Donkey Head?
A NEW COMIC!

"An Epic Narrative in Comic Form"

"A Tale of Our Times......a true original....a Big Bag of Extraordinary Things......"

"A Dante-esque journey into the dark recesses of our collective brain.....Donkey Head came and everything was suddenly different."

Donkey Head is a comic series, conceived and created by the artist Daniel Baker.

• The each episode is printed on recycled paper, and is generally 24pp in length, and costs only £1.50.

• The comic series was launched at a special opening of The Clown Museum and Gallery in 2005.

• Each new episode is launched at an unusual venue somewhere in London or beyond.

• Donkey Head is distributed via the website www.donkeyhead.org and in comic shops, independent bookshops and galleries.

Envisaged as “William Blake does Tintin”, Donkey Head is a comic drawn in the style of the ‘clear- line’ school. It narrates the story of Eric, a young man, as he is lead on a journey to find his missing father. Guiding him on this journey is George, a man with a donkey’s head. As the narrative unfolds, George leads Eric into a strange world. It is a world composed of our collective nightmares, and dreams, a kind of hell, but it has no logic in its relation to our world (it is more like a drain into which our unwanted or forgotten ideas and fantasies have been emptied). The two figures of Eric and the donkey-headed man travel over alien landscapes: luminous pools and grey deserts; piles of discarded machines; rivers of black gold; through which half-familiar characters, false leads, mirages and multiplying narratives are threaded, playing out their own perverted games, missions and storylines.

As with much so called ‘magic realism’ the fantasy element is a device, to allow a new imagining of the familiar. It intersects the main narrative line with political commentary, historical retellings, cultural ghosts and monsters, utopian ideals, and fantasies of an afterlife, drawing on a rich heritage from Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’, through Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’, to David Lynch.