What if the letter A were an aggressive drunk who got into barroom brawls with his neighbor, B? Taking the term «word play» literally, illustrator Aaron McKinney sets the alphabet against a backdrop of rebellious behavior in The Unruly Alphabet. From hurling to undressing, McKinney's bold renderings are darkly comical. By revealing the devilish characters embodied by each letter, they visually showcase human nature.
Aggressive and detailed, McKinney's cantankerous glyphs compete in strange and nightmarish ways-C is chased by a devouring D, M mauls a napping N, and S swallows and terrorizes T.
«I've always been interested in etymology,» McKinney says. «The way words, a human constructed concept, play off one another to somehow convey thought and expression in our minds fascinates me. With that thought in mind, I decided to strip language down to its most primitive form, the alphabet. To make it interesting, I anthropomorphized each letter with some of humanity's most common, despicable traits. With each letter playing off the next, the end result is the alphabet, a pretty inorganic and deliberate thing made more barbarically human.»
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