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Cry Mustardville
D.B. Dowd
Letterpress and linocut printed folios on Mohawk paper with clamshell box
10 1/2 x 13 1/2 in
edition of 75
published by Charles Bevan Press
"Cry Mustardville," published by Charles Bevan Press, is D.B. Dowd's brutal comedy about a town which grows irritable, then subsequently destroys itself in an extended fit of loathing. It is an unbound folio work which includes a story and twenty two-color linoleum cuts. The linoleum cuts do not serve as illustrations in the traditional sense. Rather, the viewer is witness to a parallel vision, of homicidal press trucks and satellite-dish churches, of doomed escapes and possessed legionnaires, of blazing libraries and games gone awry. The prints provide a visceral view of human irrationality, while the anonymous narrator supplies a courtly intelligence which strives for reasonableness in the face of unreason.
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