cover letter

            Fiflo's Figments is a comic art anthology between published short story writer Robert Finch and classically trained artist Gregory Floch.  Fiflo, a combination of Finch and Floch, denotes a body of work devoted to waking dream senselessness.  In one figment a girl commits suicide and her friends and family say goodbye through a horrific nightmare, in another, a “Hell Bus” harasses wanderers stranded on an interstate in the snow with a promise for a “way out” with the price, a virtual world exists and leads people to neglect the waking world and a starving artist working in a shack gets the deal of a life time when his work is finally noticed and censored by an oppressive government.  The work is a combination of pulp, surreal art, and a sense that despite all the darkness and blackness that there is a whimsy to any dream.  From a girl's smiling lips as she prays to God to angel's sense of humor as she gives out wishes that ultimately backfire in explosions and wardrobe malfunctions, even through the darkest moments Floch's art provides a view that is more neutral than partial, laughing as chaos and fate plays its part.  The art is shamelessly European and the writing lost in its own joke, but despite it all the works come together to form a dream-like vision of absent thoughts magnified.  Presenting, Fiflo's Figments.