The Tenaciously Sane Adventures of a Noman - Toc Fetch
Chaper One - Another Piece - V3 No1 Page 5 - Intro

 

Introduction

"If you can't print it…you're on the wrong side," said Pope Joey.

Hello from Toc Fetch. I've been having a regular tea and chat with chaos, and so I missed the timing of this publication, it was supposed to come out in early September 2001 so that I could invite you to my opening at Ricco/Maresca gallery in New York City. Opps - what year is this?

I was living up in Woodstock and one day I got a knock on my door and this guy just walked in and began to read my Room-box infinitum. Finally He said he wanted to give me a show in the city. He turned out to be Roger Ricco who had seen one of my comics. He looked at my ink pages and asked how I was with a pencil. "Vectorific!" I said (…as if). So I dropped the comic I was working on, Kids of Lower Utopia - V6 No1, and began V6 No2 - The Realization of River Scout Finnagain. This is me about a year later and I'm working the last big page, 33"x 52", a hellish lot-a-work for a point-three-point, and his worker. These pencil works are me at my best, and I can't wait to get back to ink. Hi-ho.

So for now this is the first installment of volume three of The Most PopeJoey. This comic stands alone but I've mapped-out a possible five chapters for a future return. It follows an old pattern found in the Brahmavaivarta Purana, a prehistoric pattern gone time-tripping and reskinned in the now. In this book a man attempts to achieve a hearts desire. His desire is to bring into the world a lucid dream, true to its VerySelf, through painting. He meets resistance from the personified voices of history, his own past, and the future Door-Guardians of his self realization. Even the man's very desire, to do this impossible work, comes personified as a huge bright snake to test his resolve. The man passes each distraction with a heart full of animals and defeats his desire by becoming it - accepting it as it is, then climbing inside its skin to avoid conflict with other desires. What he gains on the one hand he loses on the other - that is the law of these things in the world of forms. So ends book one.

Epilogue by Brother Arebear, in which he remembers the exponential magic that takes place when comrades live together in The Work. Friends …comics are changing… and it's about time.

AnOther Piece is number one of volume three, …of the Most PopeJoey. Published by Abbane Ink, 306 Yerry Hill Road, Woodstock, NY 12498. All contents copyright © 2001 Toc Fetch. All rights reserved. The stories, characters and incidents mentioned in this comic are entirely about me, and me alone, any similarity to you is purely coincidental, but a nice coincidence all the same.

Up with each - down with all! Longlive the Lords of Cheek. .

 

 

Frame 1: Toc's familiar: Pope Joey, the voice of Toc's superego.
Toc was a painter once upon a time and a Voice within Toc's Grand Circus Psyche called Pope Joey saved his life back in 1989, later Pope Joey convinced Toc that the world of fine art supported a feudal class system and was NOT spiritual-proletarianism and therefore not helping the world. And The-Boy-Pope said, "You're either helpin or hurtin?"

Brother Rainer (Rainer Maria Rilke; German poet 1875-1926 and very wise. Read; find a Bly translation.)

"Up with each, down with all," the individual's cognitional anarchist credo in which… "each" and "all" ...is every-one .