Cute and Furie

By Adam Brock

Props to the surreal, playful, intricate work of San Francisco artist Matt Furie. Looking like the Berenstein Bears on kombucha, Furie’s drawings manage to bring us 20-somethings back to our childhood and into the verdy near future at the same time. They aren’t always cheery or G-rated – see toxic waste raping ma nature – but looking at the beautiful/awful absurdity of the present through Furie’s eyes makes me smile.