Unended by Josh Bayer

What prevents you from finishing your life's work?
Josh Bayer finds a manuscript of an unfinished play inside his deceased father's desk. The play tells the story of Josh's mother's early death (age 37) and his father's struggle with single parenthood. When he attempts to adapt the play into comics, it triggers a series of personal crises. Bayer's limitations and futile ambitions are brought into sharp relief as he grapples with an estranged, unknowable parent and the play's frustrating lack of resolution.
Humans worship lore, myth, and fables, but many people's creative dreams become abandoned. Why?
Bayer's inky line, tangled textures, and kaleidoscopic color boldly fuse on the page into comic book semiotics, flights of grandeur, and tangents inside tangents. Josh Bayer stitches scattered memories into surrealistic episodes permeated with dream logic. Unended is a Promethean quest to excavate the creative fire hidden inside us.

Josh Bayer lives in Harlem and has worked as a GraphicNovelist, Fine Artist, and Illustrator for twenty years. Josh is the editor ofthe anthology Suspect Device and the author of Theth, RawPower, Theth Tomorrow Forever, RM, and Black Star .Additionally, he is the editor and writer of the All Time Comics imprintfrom Floating World Comics and Fantagraphics . Hisstyle is characterized by a genre fusion tying together different historicalcartooning styles with a devout punk rock anti-narrative. His comics work wasreprinted in the Best American Comics series in 2014 and 2017,selected from work across the country by editors Ben Katchor and JonathanLetham. Bayer has an extensive career producing conceptual art for various TV and film productions for clients, including MTV, HBO, and AmnestyInternational. Josh earned an MFA in Illustration and Cartooning in 2009 andhas taught professionally since 2007 at schools all over New York.