What if Mad Magazine had an unholy lovechild with Salvador Dali and that child was raised on heaping doses of psychedelia and biting political satire. Well, you wouldn’t even be scratching the surface of Christian McPherson’s Screaming Obscenities at the Sky.
One part graphic novel, told through an intimate, cerebral narrative and one part artistic madness that leaves one longing for more.
You’ve discovered one of the most exciting visual experiences, a journey to the centre of a mind so funny, so honest, so utterly electrifying that one must ask; have you found your way here by chance?
Enjoy it, there are very few “first” experiences in life.
“Screaming Obscenities at the Sky marries zine culture with contemporary CanLit to create an unholy hybrid that would be equally at home as back alley graffiti or in the pages of MAD Magazine. Christian McPherson has written a purposeful, poetic manifesto for a post-pandemic world.”
– Jim Johnstone, author of ‘The King of Terrors’
“McPherson writes candidly, and wryly, about the things that keep many of us up at night. Pensive and vulnerable, yet incongruently humourous, Screaming Obscenities at the Sky is an irreverent meditation on life, death, and the existential crisis facing humanity.”
– Liz Worth
“Weird! Raging! Grotesque! Screaming Obscenities at the Sky is a wildly playful and irreverent mixed-media take down of our fucked-up reality. In his collision of demented doodles and uncensored autobiographical verse, Christian McPherson disgorges blasts of anger, despair, and love.”
– DS Stymeist, author of ‘Cluster Flux’
“Screaming Obscenities at the Sky is a wild ride! Poems that rage through extended rants, with flashes of tenderness and everyday absurdities, are paired with drawings that evoke a fevered space somewhere between Looney Tunes and Robert Crumb. Existential angst has never been this lively, or this much fun.”
– Frances Boyle
“As advertised, Screaming Obscenities at the Sky raises daily anxieties to a fever pitch via experiences, introspective musings, and self-portraits encountered inside so-called mundanity. Vivid and fraught, this unique complement between words and images elevates the whimsy and horror we encounter in our contemporary landscape, and responds with appropriate dark laughter and disbelief. Welcome to Christian McPherson’s imagination, now in technicolor.”
– David O’Meara, author of ‘Masses on Radar & Chandelier’
“Screaming Obscenities at the Sky is a highly personal dreamscape - a world of livid lines. Inoperable questions abound on how to exist within the minutiae of an absurd world. Filled with dark humour and unexpected tenderness, McPherson is able to capture the dark joy of hurling your lungs at the sun.”
– Christine McNair
This book was made with the generous support of the Manitoba Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Catch-of-breath moments that stir exquisite awareness.
