I <3 NY — thalan-harry

I NY

- Illustration
- October 2021
- University Brief

My Uncle Stu is a pretty interesting guy. He was 20 years old at the time, having graduated from high school just 2 years prior and was offered the amazing opportunity to fly to LA and New York to work as an intern at the infamous Ed Hardy design studio. Within weeks he managed to talk his way from an internship all the way to designing alongside everyone else. Stewart was at the top of his game, living what other young Aussie designers could only dream of… that is until the Ed Hardy brand slowly began its cultural descent and eventual implosion. Due to this, they had to let him go.

Now, Stewart was stranded in New York with no source of income and no way back home. This is a comic about that time. I won’t spoil the rest, so I encourage you to give it a quick read. This mini-comic was created in response to a brief wherein I was required to narrativise a time of hardship through visual means.

I acknlowedge the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation as the traditional custodians of the stolen land on which I live, work and play, passing this respect on to traditional Aboriginal elders past, present and emerging. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land. Sovereignty was never ceded