Study Task 1 - About the Author - Cormac Mccarthy - Zine

Front cover

I decided to heavily emphasise texture in my zine (building it up with layers of paint, ink and pencil and scratching back into the page) in order to communicate the visceral way in which McCarthy writes, the physicality of the landscapes he describes and the violence which occurs in them.

McCarthy writes a lot about death and a lot about horses so dead horses became a recurring theme in my zine, as a simple way of evoking the nature of many of his stories. I tried to apply red paint to the images as a way to signify how violence is so deeply embedded into the world he depicts without just depicting violent acts.

I like how pairing quotes with images in a somewhat incongruous way can elicit certain atmospheres/ moods in an often more effective way than establishing more obvious connections.

I think this is my favourite page, it seems to me to be the most brutal image.