Here’s another early, heavily Jones-influenced* story by Jon Jay Muth:
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- ABOVE: Jon Jay Muth, "Synchrony," Heavy Metal vol. 8, no. 5 (August 1984), page 34.
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- ABOVE: Jon Jay Muth, "Synchrony," Heavy Metal vol. 8, no. 5 (August 1984), page 35.
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- ABOVE: Jon Jay Muth, "Synchrony," Heavy Metal vol. 8, no. 5 (August 1984), page 36.
What is it about death at the hands of “La belle Dame sans merci” that the young Romantic finds so alluring? Depends on what you mean by “death,” I suppose. But the Romantic goes further, conflating “la petit morte d’Holophernes” with “Le Morte d’Holophernes,” even though common sense says the two are drastically different things. Is common sense the enemy of art? At the very least, it would appear to be the enemy of Romanticism, new as well as old.
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* If I had to guess, I would say that comic artist and illustrator, Barry Windsor-Smith, who has drawn and painted numerous pictures over the years of historical and mythological women holding, fondling, and kissing the severed heads of young men, and who was himself a prominent member of the “New Romantic Brotherhood” of the late 1970s and early 1980s, was also a proximate influence on “Synchrony.”
