Adrian Villár Rojas: The End of Imagination
Mitchell, John Ames / Villár Rojas, Adrian
Argentinian artist Adrian Villár Rojas's artist's book The End of Imagination, a dystopian graphic
novel, weaves together three stories: The Last American, a futuristic novel by John Ames Mitchell
from 1889, The Last Joke on Earth, an essay about the end of the world that Rojas himself wrote
in 2011, and images taken from the 1928 animated short Steamboat Willie, the first Mickey Mouse
film to be set to music.
This montage of literature and ca...