A loosely-autobiographical fiction, An Index of Personalities is a 43-page graphic novel about a fractured boy who dies without knowing the experience of love but, miraculously, wakes up from the dead in the driver’s seat of a 1989 Ford Crown Victoria. Through connecting with the people he meets in his drive across America, he learns how to glue the damaged pieces of his mind together for the first time.
This book is the largest collage project I’ve ever made and took me ten months to finish. I glued, stitched, laminated, cut, burned, painted, colored, built, created, and destroyed hundreds of sources dating from the 1950’s to today. All of this material was gifted to me by others, found in secondhand stores and garbage bins, childhood books I’ve kept for nearly two decades, outlandishly outdated science textbooks, and personal mementos. Scanning this collage unfortunately means you won’t get to play with the stuffed letters, hidden niches, and other interactive elements, but I like to think it stands up without them!
From Neopets, to Dostoyevsky, to Playboy, to the illustrated Big Game Animals of North America this book is bound to, it has a lot going on. I try to read whatever I take from, and I’ve learned so much that I never would have found any other way. I’m so excited to finally be able to put this out into the world!
If you’d like to read the whole thing, I figured out how to make a Gumroad so you can get the files for free at this link. <3
If you’d like to give this a read and leave me a tip, it would be super helpful right now. If you can’t tip, that’s okay, too, I hope you enjoy it either way!!
i will ALWAYS clap my hands excitedly and lean forward in my seat when someone tells a character to “keep your dog on a leash” only for it to turn out they’re referring to another person
i hate this stupid fucking video my girlfriend keeps playing it when we’re sharing comfortable moments of silence and it’s ruined by this stupid fucking orange slut getting water boarded by toothpaste
LETS GET ONE THING CLEAR, I CAN HANDLE THE SINS OF MAN ALL BY MY SELF OKAY!?
