A Parallel Planets piece by Unknown
Parallel Planets presents Corinne Halbert
in Not Your Ordinary Comic Book
Story by Nicole Lane
Mentioned: hypersexuality, maniacal mouse, and bold lines
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This is the Itchy and Scratchy show brought to print. This is a woman biting off the penis of her partner. This is Ed Gein in comic book form. This is something really, really awesome.
Hailing from Chicago, Corinne Halbert is a graduate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she received an MFA in 2008. I first saw Corinne’s work when I stumbled into the Peanut Gallery, located in Chicago, around Christmastime for the Krazy Krampus Art Market. I grazed over tables and happened upon Corinne’s section which featured stickers, prints and comic books. I gushed, gasped and giggled over “Hate Baby”, a comic book which features black and white images of sexual and violent insanity. Corinne states that, “Hate Baby is basically a series of humorous vignettes centering on three subjects I always obsess over, love, sex and death.” Ah, I was instantly in love.
Gender roles and sexual roles seem to be a theme in the “Hate Baby” comic and in Corrine’s work in general. The comic book features graphic images of a man having sex with a headless, limbless body, while on another page there are eyeballs torn from their sockets and served on a plate. Bon Appetite! Corinne’s experience with Film/Video, which she studied in undergrad, allows for her to look at her “drawings in a new way.” Corinne states that comic books are “very much like a story board for a film” and each frame allows the viewer to focus in on that specific action. An example of this is the sleazy men who fill the pages of “Hate Baby”. White text floats across the pages as they spew vulgarity for the viewer to read. The strong contrast of white and black adds to the hypersexuality and constant violence displayed on the pages. Exploring these images is important to Corinne. She wants the viewer to “keep looking” which is something that I definitely couldn’t stop doing.
Corrine’s project “M”, featuring “Murderous Mikee and his beloved Minee” is a colorful and vibrant narrative with a similar violence as in “Hate Baby”. Mikee’s girlfriend, Minee, is constantly beheaded in this tale of love and absurdity. Corinne explains that, “The Murderous Mikee Mouse character basically lost his mind when he finds out his best friend Goofy is getting a blow job from his girlfriend Minee.” His violence is demonstrated through colorful acrylic paintings with thick, bold, lines tracing the bodies and gore which exist in this maniacal world.
This universe, real and false in some ways, is delivered to us all through the artist, Corinne Halbert. Her evocative work brings forth the dysfunctional and the defective, the savage and the brutal, a world that may not be too far away from some of our realities. Corrine Halbert's exhibition at the Peanut Gallery begins on March 23rd where her series, “M” will be displayed. In the future, she hopes to create cartoons animation, become a professor of art and have a successful career as an artist.
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