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Comics · Here, Read · Look Here · Richard Corben

Look Here, Read: “Damsel in Dragon Dress” by Doug Moench and Richard Corben

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From Grim Wit #2, published in September 1973, here’s a rollicking six-pager with story by Doug Moench and art by the great Richard Corben:

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I first read “Damsel in Dragon Dress” in the trade-paperback collection, The Odd Comic World of Richard Corben, which I purchased new, back in high school, from a “Captain Company” advertisement in either Creepy or Eerie, I forget which… it was a long time ago… but I still have my original copy of that book, along with very nice backup copy that I bought on ebay years later…

Comics · Here, Read · Look Here · Nicole Claveloux

Look Here, Read: “The Green Hand: The Mauve Sideshow” (part 5 of 5), by Claveloux and Zha

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From Heavy Metal volume 1, number 9 (December 1977) — 33 years ago! — here’s the fifth and final chapter of Claveloux and Zha’s The Green Hand:

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Comics · Here, Read · Look Here · Nicole Claveloux

Look Here, Read: “The Green Hand: Blue Terror” (part 4 of 5), by Claveloux and Zha

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From Heavy Metal volume 1, number 8 (November 1977), here’s the fourth chapter of Claveloux and Zha’s The Green Hand:

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Comics · Here, Read · Look Here · Nicole Claveloux

Look Here, Read: “The Green Hand: White Night” (part 3 of 5), by Claveloux and Zha

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From Heavy Metal volume 1, number 7 (October 1977), here’s the third chapter of Claveloux and Zha’s The Green Hand:

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Comics · Here, Read · Look Here · Nicole Claveloux

Look Here, Read: “The Green Hand: Night Grass” (part 2 of 5), by Claveloux and Zha

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From Heavy Metal volume 1, number 6 (September 1977), here’s the second installment of Claveloux and Zha’s The Green Hand, which to my knowledge has never been published in a single volume in English:

Comics · Here, Read · Look Here · Nicole Claveloux

Look Here, Read: “The Green Hand” (part 1 of 5), by Claveloux and Zha

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The graphic album, “La Main Verte,” by Nicole Claveloux and Elisabeth “Zha” Salomon, published in French in 1978 by Humanoids, was also serialized in English in Heavy Metal. The following is the first of five chapters that appeared in Heavy Metal from August to December 1977 (33 years ago!); I’ve also included the cover by Bernie Wrightson, for comparison and contrast fun:

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The moment when the woman says to the flightless, depressed bird, “Get out of here. I’m going to do something desperate,” and then unexpectedly slides through the wall into the ivy-choked apartment next door, leaving her clothes in shreds on the floor, is not only beautifully realized but also, for me, absolutely unforgettable.

Should I post the rest of the story? You tell me.

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Alberto Breccia · Comics · Here, Read · Look Here

Look Here, Read: “To Draw or Not to Draw” by Alberto Breccia

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From Heavy Metal’s Greatest Hits, volume 8, number 2 (1994), here’s a lushly painted little parable on freedom of expression by a neglected master, Alberto Breccia.

So… all you lovers of freedom, beware the wrath of the frustrated would-be artist… also, all you dictators out there, beware the brutal efficiency of your own brain-dead blackshirts…

Comics · Gahan Wilson · Heads Up!

Heads Up: NUTS by Gahan Wilson

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More good news for comics fans. In reply to a post by blogger Tom Crippen featuring a couple of “Nuts” comics over at the Comics Journal site, TCJ and Fantagraphics employee, Kristi Valenti, let slip the following big news for Gahan Wilson fans, and I quote, “FYI, Fanta will be reprinting these. Should be out by SDCC 2011.” For those of you who don’t already know, Gahan Wilson’s “Nuts” first appeared as a regular feature in National Lampoon in the 1970s, along with “Idyl” by Jeffrey Jones, “Trots and Bonnie” by Shary Flenniken, and several other strips that deserved to be collected and brought back into print. Yes, a “Nuts” collection was published back in 1979 by Richard Marek Publishers; however, since that book has been out of print for almost thirty years, and since Fantagraphics has had a big success with their three-volume boxed set of “50 years of Playboy Cartoons” by Gahan Wilson, perhaps the time is ripe for a more general readership to discover, or re-discover, the greatness that is Gahan. One can only hope!