Bar Delicious by Blaise Moritz

Bar Delicious is what everyone craves. Why else would it be so omnipresent, constantly available to fulfill the incessant desire to consume Bar Delicious? Surely, they must live in a land of plenty, those who are given to live in a land with plenty of Bar Delicious. And yet we are at odds, the moment in which we expressed that desire evasive, our relationship to the massive processes that massively produce Bar Delicious unclear.
Bar Delicious is a meditation on consumption and desire in the context of the contemporary late capitalist and technological system. In a hybrid Futurist-Primitivist visual style, these panels advocate for the oppositional liberating power of desire.

Blaise Moritz is an artist living in East Toronto. Since June 2019, he has produced The Test, a monthly visual poetry comic that has ranged from a long engagement with Jack Kirby's late career editorials to illustrations of Eugenio Montale's prose poems. Issue 17, the final issue of the sequence "An Affliction of the Eyes", was shortlisted for Best Comics Zine in the 2021 Broken Pencil Zine Awards. His graphic work has appeared as part of the Colossive Cartographies series from Colossive Press (London, England) and in The Plague Review Digest from Rotland Press (Detroit). He is the author of two previous books of poetry without pictures, Zeppelin (Nightwood Editions, 2013) and Crown and Ribs (Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2007).