Showing posts with label Happy New Year 2010: 'Midnight Feast'. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Happy New Year 2010: 'Midnight Feast'. Show all posts

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Happy New Year 2010
A little two-page strip, 'Midnight Feast', by Reveillon,  from the December 1979 issue of 'Heavy Metal' magazine. 

Despite its brevity, 'Feast' effectively communicates something of the initial merriment, then the following melancholy, of a New Year's Eve revels. 

In many ways, the end-of-the-decade sense of anomie and weariness that characterized the New Year's Eve of 1979 is also present as we confront New Year's Eve 2009 and the end of its own decade....