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8/6/2019 Mr. Slick Draft 11

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LAURA CERWINSKECOMES TO TOWN


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Laura Cerwinskeannounces the launch of

Laura would love to createbooks and art for you, too.

Heres a comic taste

to wet your imagination.

Turn the page to meet Mr. Slick and dream on

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Art work may not be duplicatedwithout permission.

Purchase of original Laura Cerwinske artwork does NOT transfer any rights of copyright.

Copyright remains with Laura Cerwinske.


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by Laura Cerwinske

Mr. Slick comes to town... and all thegirls are jazzed.

So begins Laura Cewinskes comic talein words and pictures.

Unamused by the consequent dither of Mr. Slicks arrival, The EmpressFulfaggotra unleashes a force of

superheroes, artists, and unsuspectingangels. A surreal frolic to restore Her Grace ensues, and Love, naturally, isthe reward.

MR. SLICK COMES TO TOWN

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Mr. Slickcomes to

town6 7


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are jazzed.and allthe girls

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EvenLady

Liberty

lifts asalute.

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is notamused.

The

EmpressFulfaggotra,however,

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Still,Barry Zaidand

Celia Cruz

throw opentheir arms,

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while Popeyecomes along,followed by

Bugs andWonderWoman.

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The GiantGreen Babythen throwsa steriodalrage which

extracts an

appearance fromSuperman.

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TheBlue Hair Ladyand

The Man withthe Tangerinesuit hold hands,

Ooooooo.

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while Pollyspills

the beans...22 23


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...andheads for

NiagaraFalls.

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Mistakenly,he lands inSalem where

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he artistDina Knapphas sewn

a pictureof her

dream.30


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TheMonas

watch...32 33


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as did theneighbors.

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tooktypical

revenge.

But then,the Patriarch,aghast,

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Still, thegirls find it

a hoot.38 39


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Explodingheads...

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and...43


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headsglowing44 45


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with

sure strength,

nd women

kneelingartists

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and exultantdames

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and

Little RedWritingHood,

includingthe Incaangel

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agree.and all thegirlfriends...

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TheEmpresssnew clothes

are aboutto appear.

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Cast youreyesupward.

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and hear theGraces...

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isFulfaggotras

message.Love

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Take yourrolic

seriously.

Thepromise

is this big.

Mami Watasays so.

Halleleulah!

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Louis,the best of all drawingmodels,knew...

and itshowed.

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Love andfrolicare theanswer.

After all,

you canalways findthem...

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ABOUT THE ARTISTSLaura Cerwinske makes art and books. Her continuousbody of work, produced throughout the last forty years,includes painting, sculpture, drawing, collage, assem-blage, print and digital photography, photo styling,art directing, and book design. Like Baroness Elsa vonFreytag-Loringhoven, she also supported herself as anartists model.

Many of the Lauras images in this book, including Mr.Slick and The Empress Fulfaggotra, were taken as part ofa photograph series of window displays (perpetually inprogress). Mr. Slick, a Mad Man, if ever there was one),was actually photographed on New York Citys MadisonAvenue. The Girls (pages 3-4, 34), The Ladies Liberty, (pages ), Superheroes (pages 13-14) Bugs Bunny andWonder Woman, Betty Boop, and the Glowing Heads(pages 38 40), were photographed in store windowson Fifth Avenue. The Empress Fulfaggotra continues toappear in a window on Miracle Mile inCoral Gables, Florida.

Judith Hoch is an artist and anthropologist who lives halfeach year on the South Island of New Zealand whereshe paints, practices and teaches yoga, and cultivatesand is reforesting forty acres of gardens and trees. Theinspirations for her various series include the spontane-ous, natural icons of the early Neolithic in southeasternEurope, the woodblock prints made by artists attendingwitch executions in early modern Britain and Europe, the

music of Verdi, the absolute soul presence of the Maoriwoman, Aroha Wainui, and images from her inner li feof dream and contemplation. Learn more about JudithHoch at www.judithhoch.com

Barry Zaid is an illustrator and graphic designer who livesin Miami Beach. His illustrious career has included the de-

sign of the original Celestial Seasonings packaging, book covers and book designs for numerous publishers world-wide, posters, greeting cards, type designs, and all man-ner of other graphic products. Before he could read,he loved the shapes of the letters on the packages in hisfathers grocery store. When in his teens, he producedsigns...combining letters and images... for neighborhoodstores. Posters produced during his student days led to hislifelong career. Learn more about Barry Zaid atwww.barryzaid.com

Richard Protovin was a painter and lmmaker. His obses -sive love of drawing led him into a passion for anima-tion, and he founded the New York University School ofAnimation in the 1980s, before the use of computers. Hewas also an acclaimed abstract painter. Richard, whodied in 1991, was beloved for his generosity and stupen-dous sense of the Ridiculous.

Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven was an early20th artist known as much for her personal costume andperformance as for her collages and assemblages fash
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THE ARTISTSCONTINUEDioned from found materials. Usually impoverished, shesupported herself throughout much of her career as anartists model. She was a friend of Marcel Duchampand many of the New York Dada crowd. A publishedpoet, she was lauded as, the rst American dada theonly one living anywhere who dresses dada, loves dada,lives dada.

Dina Knapp is a textile artist and maker of wearable art.Her playful, colorful work draws on the high style andhigh jinks of the imagery of 1940s and fties resort life. Her clothing and ne art collages and assemblages havebeen exhibited throughout the U.S. Learn more aboutDina Knapp at www.dinaknapp.com

Ciro Quintana

Ruben Torres Llorca

David Chieppo (p. ) is a cultural portraitist who was bornin the U.S., but has resided in Switzerland since 1998. His

luscious paintings could be called gurative abstractionsof humanity seeped in pristine isolation.

ABOUT THE CHARACTERSMr. Slick lives for excitement. Once he gets the girls

jazzed, he can get away with just about anything. Heis expert at the fond gaze, the warm palm, the ready,grin. A master of distraction, Mr. Slick thrills to games,prizing his ease at arousing in others whatever desire ofheart or loins best serves him. He reserves his feasts ofvengeance for those who most wish to love him. He isinsatiable.

The Goddess Fulfaggotra (page 8) represents theincarnation of Beauty, Creativity, Sensuality, theExtravagant, the Voluptuous, and the Ridiculous. Her mythology, created by Laura Cerwinske, is described asfollows:

In a heavenly collision of constellations, Creations twomost powerful deities Imagination and Passion weresent rocking from their celestial cradles into the sparklingweb of Divinity. Imagination grew to embody Beauty,Creativity and Sensuality; Passion ruled the Extravagant,the Voluptuous, and the Ridiculous. Out of their embracewas born a Daughter whom they called Fulfaggotra. The

name, of Fauxmaic origin, derived from Fulfaggotore,meaning to Celebrate, to Decorate, to Animate.

Imagination and Passion lavished upon Fulfaggotraa life of wisdom and exuberance. They guided her inaccordance with the constellations; taught her the loreand law of the forests; and provided gardens
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THE CHARACTERSCONTINUEDfor cultivation of her daydreams. They welcomedcompanions of all ages and tongues, and theyencouraged her in good deeds and prayer. They tutoredher in the healing, creative, and martial arts. They trainedher as a hunter, a warrior, an artist, and healer. Theytaught her nurture and benign rule.

In time, Fulfaggotra grew to be the most powerful deity

in all the Heavens. Universally adored, She took loverson land and sea and populated every continent withher Earth-worshipping children. She cultivated civilityamong migratory creatures. She wove enchantment intothe rituals of life. Eventually, Fulfaggotras power cameto outweigh, overshadow, and outlast that of all other deities in OurStory.

Mami Wata (page 68) is a plural noun that connotesthe myriad, ancient water deities of Africa, whosepriesthoods are matriarchal. Mami Wata once inspirednot only African cultures but also the ancient Anatolian,Middle Eastern, Greek, and Roman traditions. MamiWata deities are often half mermaid, half reptile or sh,primordial deities who were the bringers of justice, andwho established complex theological, moral, social,political, economic and cultural foundations. She says,I hold the mysteries of your life. All will be well. Judithsseries Stop the Executions (page __ ) depicts imagesfrom the centuries of witch trials that decimated muchof the worlds population of wise women, midwives,and herbalists.

The Patriarchs represent the beliefs and actions ofthe rational, linear mind as it is invested in hierarchy,acquisition, domination, accumulation, measurement,consumption, complexity, compartmentalization,punishment, and vengeance. The domination ofpatriarchy over Fulfaggotry and its excessive applicationover the last eight millennium has robbed humanity ofcreative and sexual power, turning fundamental aspectsof humanness that once were celebrated into cause for shame. Patriarchy run rampant has resulted in the cavalier desecration of the earth. In Albert Einsteins words, Theintuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is afaithful servant. We have created a society that honors theservant and has forgotten the gift.


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ABOUT THEAUTHOR/PUBLISHERAs the author of more than 20 books on art,architecture, and design and as a practicing artist,Laura Cerwinske is devout in her love for Creativity.In fact, her passion is so nourishing, she wishes shecould eat it. She considers Creativty to be a spiritualendeavor. Combining this understanding with her longexperience as a writer, Laura developed

Radical Writing , an online course that teaches thetechnique and rewards of uninhibited self-expression.

Laura grew up not only during the heyday of theoriginal movie and television cartoons, but as thedaughter of one of the animators for the Fleischer Studios which produced, among other classicanimations, Popeye and Betty Boop. Accordingly,Laura views life with a comic eye, and her Goddesscreation the Empress Fulfaggotra reigns largelythrough a sense of the Ridiculous. Laura has createdan assembly of altars, icons, and artifacts used in theworship of her goddess creation and known asThe Art of Fulfagottry .

Lauras publishing company, Blue Hair Lady Publishing ,is devoted to books and art that reveal the joyfulintensity of Creative power. The publications areexcursions through the secrets of transformation,weaving memoir and mythology, metaphysics and art,quantum thought and healing.

Laura would love to : Develop books for you. Curatea program on Creativity for your organization. Createcurricula for your art program. Coach you and/or your collective. Cultivate your visionary thinking. Contacther at: [email protected]

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CREDITS&ATTRIBUTIONSCover photograph: from the series Madison Avenue Windows by Laura Cerwinske, 2010

Page 2 Mr. Slick , photograph by Laura CerwinskePages 3-4 The Girls are Jazzed, photographs by

Laura CerwinskePages 5-6 Ladies Liberty , photographs by Laura CerwinskePage 8 The Empress Fulfaggotra from the series Miracle

Mile Windows , photograph by Laura Cerwinske

Page 10 Barry at the Bass , photograph by Laura CerwinskePage 11 Popeye is Everywhere , photograph byLaura Cerwinske

Page 12 Bugs and the Lady , photograph byLaura Cerwinske

Pages 13-14 The Big Boys , photographs by Laura CerwinskePages 17-18 detail of a painting by David ChieppoPage 19 Mr. Slicks Dog , photograph by Laura CerwinskePages 21-22 The Artist Barry Zaid and His Boys, photograph by

Laura CerwinskePages 23-24 The artists Judith Hoch and Laura Cerwinske at the

exhibition of Hochs series Accursed Charms ,Cape Cod, MA, 1990

Page 25 Portrait of the Artist Dina Knapp byLaura Cerwinske

Page 26 Dina Knapp at the Bass Museum , Miami, Florida

2006, painting and photograph by Laura CerwinskePages 27-28 The Monas, photograph by Laura CerwinskePage 29 Harold and Shirley , photograph by Laura

CerwinskePage 30 Shirley, Now and Then , portrait by Laura

CerwinskePages 31-32 details of El Patio de Mi Casa es Particular, a

painting by Ciro Quintana, 2010Page 33 The Girls are Jazzed , photograph by Laura

Cerwinske, from the Window Displays series

Pages 35-36 Jeromes Window , photograph by Laura Cerwinske,from the Window Displays series

Page 37 Andy on Houston , photograph by Laura CerwinskePages 38-40 Glowing Heads , photograph by Laura Cerwinske,

from the Window Displays seriesPage 41 detail of Sin Noticias de la Habana by

Ruben Torres Llorca, 2010

Page 42 Mike Bonner at his school, Mikes Flying Service.Photograph courtesy of Dana Bonner Page 43 Portrait of the artist Baroness Elsa

von Freytag-Loringhoven, Photograph of thePhotograph at Art Basel by Laura Cerwinske, 2008

Page 44 Richard Protovin on his KneesPage 45 Henriequita and Angel ,

photograph by Laura CerwinskePage 46 Peg at Books and Books ,

photograph by Laura CerwinskePages 47-48 The Girlfriends at Age 90 ,

photograph by Laura CerwinskePages 49- 50 The Girls and Mr. Slick , photographs by Laura

Cerwinske, from the Window Displays seriesPage 52 Eyes Upward , photograph by Laura Cerwinske,

from the Window Displays series

Page 53-54 The Graces , photograph by Laura CerwinskePages 55-56 Watch and Frolic , photographs by Laura CerwinskePage 57 detail of El Patio de Mi Casa es Particular ,

a painting by Ciro Quintana, 2010Page 58 detail from the painting Mami Wata

by Judith Hoch, 2009Page 60 detail of a life size drawing by Laura Cerwinske,

conte crayon and pastel on paper,1995Page 62 Always in My Dreams , photograph by Laura

Cerwinske, from the Window Displays series


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