Teenage Jesus Flips the Bird

Digital Collage/Print, 24x24x1, 2026

Teenage Jesus Flips the Bird is the first of 35 pieces in Apocalypse Wow! My book is an illuminated satire linking classical, medieval, and modern motifs, applying themes from the Book of Revelation to white Xtian nationalism and the current situation. Cf. Rev. 1.

The day after the Nov. 2024 election, I began a series that grew into an illuminated manuscript, Apocalypse Wow! It flips themes and characters from the Book of Revelation onto Christian nationalism and its political ilk. As a satirist, I use words and images to create Shandyesque tales and possibly evoke curses. My goal is to transform classical, medieval, modern, and pop culture into what Laurence Sterne calls, "A cock and a bull story...And one of the best of its kind."

Craig Thompson is a Pacific Northwest writer and artist. His work has appeared in Time Magazine, The Locust Review, Gauntlet, Surreal Salon, Collage to the Rescue, and other magazines, anthologies, and galleries. Craig is featured in East Point West Press's letter press anthologies of Western Washington poetry. “Fuzz Against Drugs, or the Saga of the Narcotics Squad” was performed at Northwest Actors Studio, and “Seattle, Seattle” at Seattle Public Theater. He is a recipient of the City of Seattle’s Denny Award.