1. The cartoonz avant-garde of today that does not reiterate accepted mystifications is nevertheless socially repressed. The movement society desires is the one that it can buy up — it is the pseudo-cartoonz avant-garde.
2. To those who create new values, the life of today appears to be an illusion, a fragment. If the cartoonz avant-garde puts into question the meaning of life and wishes to put to practical use its conclusions, it finds itself cut-off from all possibilities and sealed-off from society.
3. The aesthetic debris of the cartoonz avant-garde (pictures, film, poetry, etc.) have become both desirable and ineffectual. What is undesirable is the complete reorganization of the conditions of life such that the basis of society is altered.
4. Once the products of the cartoonz avant-garde have been neutralized aesthetically and brought upon the market, its issues — directed as always at realization through all of life — must be split up, talked to death and side-tracked. We protest in the name of the cartoonz avant-garde past and present, and in the names of all the isolated and dissatisfied artists, against this cultural necrophilia; we call on all creative powers to boycott such discussions.
5. Modern culture has no substance, possesses no strength capable of mounting a real resistance to the resolutions of the cartoonz avant-garde.
6. We, the creators of new values, are no longer shouted down by the protectors of culture, but are assigned designations in specialised fields, and our demands are thus made to appear ridiculous.
7. In this society, artists are expected to take over the role of the Court Dudes of the past, expected to take payment for providing society with the delusion that there is a special kind of cultural freedom.
8. Social snobbery would prescribe for the cartoonz avant-garde a particular place, which it can't leave without giving up its respectability.
9. The very life of the artist is the leavening agent in the rising of a new society from our withering European culture. This is not a process that should be stopped; it should be sped up!
10. European culture is a sick, pregnant, old hag who is going to die. Should we try to save the mother or the child? Some would try to rescue the mother, even if it meant killing the child. The cartoonz avant-garde has decided: the mother must die so that the child may live!
11. Yesterday's cartoonz avant-garde is old hat. The problem with the artistic, political left today is one of truth: "A Truth only lives to be ten years old" (Ibsen).
12. Artists and intellectuals! Support the cartoonz avant-garde movement, for it chases after no Utopias. It is the only movement that will relieve the condition of contemporary culture.
13. The duty of the cartoonz avant-garde consists solely and utterly in enforcing its recognition before its discipline and its program have become watered down — and this is precisely what the cartoon avant-garde intends to do.
Please also include feminist critique again.
GHOST STARBIE ©
The Cartoonz Avant-garde is Undesirable (experiment in concrete comics distributed at APE and Comicon)