Jim Trainor is an artist who works in film, video, comics and performance, but is best known for animation. His animations, until recently where he has incorperated colour, are created with black magic marker on white typing paper. Trainor creates represenational narratives with voice-over narrations. In this article, artist and writer Steve Reinke dicusses the "new ways of being in the world" which he believes is presented in Trainor's works. Reinke discusses indepthy in relation to this idea Trainor's works, The Moschops, The Fetishist, The Bats and 2 animations from ther series The Animals and Their Limitations: The Magic Kingdom and Harmony.