The comic artist R. Sikoryak has combined the little read iTunes terms and conditions that we’ve all blithely ignored countless times with his deep knowledge of comics history to produce a truly genius mash-up of the unexpected. His 96-page work “Terms and Conditions” takes that legal language and inserts it into off-kilter renditions of familiar comics like “Peanuts,” “Calvin & Hobbes,” “The Simpsons,” “Spider-Man,” “Batman” and more. The star of each page is an often grossly exaggerated Steve Jobs—who sometimes bulges with super-hero muscle and sometimes springs off the page like your favorite characters from the funny pages. It’s all bizarrely hilarious but a true masterwork of absurdist pop art.
Here are some samples, first in the style of Bill Waterson’s “Calvin & Hobbes”:
In the style of Charles Schulz’s “Peanuts”:
In the style of Steve Ditko’s “Spider-Man”:÷
In the style of Frank Miller’s “The Dark Knight Returns”:
In the style of Dave Gibbons’s “Watchmen”:
You can see all of the pages at itunestandc.tumblr.com and learn more about the print edition of this project, in bookstores March 7th, at drawnandquarterly.com.
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