Trash Mountain by Kelton Sears
Trash Mountain by Kelton Sears is a contemporary webcomic series presented in long GIF format. It seems to be surrounding the mental and spiritual journey of environmental loss, and its consequences. This was easily the most abstract and strange comic I have read from this class so far. I think it cleverly utilizes the modern technology that older comics didn't have access to such as the moving image format and the use of audio tracks on the website to provide a really immersive and unique experience. The main character, having lost his natural home to construction and urbanization workers, retreats to the deep woods in his rawest form and experiences new society. I believe this is a story about how society impedes on the natural form of living. You can see it right at the beginning when the character smashes his phone for waking him up with an alarm, and you can see its a persistent problem because its not the first phone he's smashed to pieces. Then, when the construction w