Title: Great Red Dragon, Page One Rewrite
Medium: Conte, graphite, ink, digital collage, personal writing
Dimensions [Broadsheet]: 26.5 in. W x 17.5 in. H
Dimensions [Mini Comic]: 5 in. W x 6.5 in H, 16 pages
Date: 2022
Personally authored broadsheet with minicomic edition reflecting on representational disparities between violent crime and systems of violence within police procedurals/popular culture.
Studio production and printing of this book is the result of a 2022 Creative Support for Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
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Alt Text: Cover. Image bordered by bright red frame, covered with thin, black ink lines. In small, formal type near top of cover reads "Great Red Dragon, Page One Rewrite by Jacob Yeates." A smaller image shows a line drawing of a face partially obscured by chain links and cursive type. One eye and the mouth, subtly smiling, of the face are visible; its eye yellow and its lips red.
Alt Text: Interior title page featuring a black and white version of the image on the book cover. All subsequent interior pages are also in black, white and greys (no color).
Alt Text: Title page spread. Spread made up of several frames of various size. Dominating the scene is an ink drawing of William Blake's "Great Red Dragon," the back view of a muscular, bipedal, horned, winged figure, wings outstretched and a thick tail visible. A second scene on the right shows another view of the smiling face from prior pages, again hidden behind fencing.
Alt Text: First spread. On left page, rough, hand-drawn, white line on black paper reproduction of Blake's "Great Red Dragon." On right page, dominating the overall composition, is large, black-inked line drawing of Mads Mikkelsen's smiling face visible behind two thin rows of chainlink fencing. Mads's lips are dark. A hand-drawn Roman numeral "I" is near the middle of the page.
Alt Text: Spread is divided into a loose grid of four panels, two per page, with a row of chainlink visible behind them. Three panels are split into two frames, one a closeup of Hugh Dancy's face, with a reflective expression; the other sections, respectively, showing a repeatedly impaled body, a face with a split open mouth, and a torso sprouting antlers. Fourth panel contains text.
Alt Text: Spread is organized in layout similar to prior spread. Again, four panels, with three panels split into two frames each, each panel with both a closeup of Hugh Dancy's face and, respectively, a head in profile, with a rod emerging from its mouth, a body in prayer with a flayed back, and a neck with a tongue portruding from it. Fourth panel contains text.
Alt Text: Spread is organized in layout similar to prior spread. Again, four panels, with three panels split into two frames each, each panel with both a closeup of Hugh Dancy's face and, respectively, a body covered in toadstools, a column of limbs and heads bound together with ropes, and plates of rotting, maggot-infested food. Fourth panel contains text.
Spread is roughly split into two columns, beginning in upper left with a large ink drawing of Hugh Dancy's face next to a "Great Red Dragon" fragment. Underneath this are alternating panels, one with a repeated phrase collaged from a "Hannibal" screenplay and a responding draft of text, each one with an X violently slashed over it. Fencing and an eye is visible behind several panels.
Alt Text: Final spread. Mads Mikkelsen's face, in rough, white ink on almost completely black background dominates image area. A portion of a black ink drawing, on white paper, depicting his smiling, dark lipped mouth is visible in upper right portion of spread. The final line of text is both x'ed out and surrounded by raggedly drawn, white circles.
Alt Text: Back cover. Layout identical to front cover, with smaller interior image a subtly different version of the line drawing of the previous face, again obscured by chain links and cursive type. Again, one eye and a subtly smiling mouth visible; its eye yellow and its lips red.
Alt Text: Interior end title page featuring a black and white version of the image on back book cover. 2022 Minnesota State Arts Board acknowledgment text is below image.