Dennis Worden
by Frank Santoro
Friday, January 4, 2008
I found this mini-comic at Copacetic in the quarter bin. Bongo Dick.”The rejected strips of Dennis Worden.” Remember Stickboy? He makes a few brief appearances in this mini from 1986. But, for me, the best part of these “rejected” strips are the one pagers, like this one. Also, Worden fills in the negative space at the bottom of some pages with TV Guide capsule reviews from ’86. Channel 42 was showing: MOVIE – biography “The Winning Team” (1952) Ronald Reagan, as the immortal Satan’s son, eyes the Presidency. Rossano Brazzi, Don Gordon. (1hr., 50 min.) I dunno if Worden had a computer back then or not to emulate TV Guide’s font but I sure was fooled. Channel 13 was showing “Ramrod” -western (1947) A sheep herder’s daughter (Veronica Lake) starts a bath with cattle barons, giving everyone a hard time. Joel McCrea.
Labels: Dennis Worden, mini-comics, Ronald Reagan, Satan, Stickboy
Veronica Lake! Her photo is on my computer desktop right now.
Dennis Worden is a very interesting cartoonist with a long history of innovative work and to top it all off, there is no one quite like him. I really dig his output.
I would also like to add that his design sense and humor are deceptively brilliant.
I’m on a Dennis Worden jag and plan to write more about him soon! And his prices can’t be beat for original artwork http://www.dennisworden.com/comicartpage.htm
Hey, thanks for the kind words. I'll tell ya how I did the TV Guide stuff. No computer. Cut and past, with and xacto knife and glue-stick. Every word came from tv listings. I did a page of the stuff in my previous book SLUR. I'll try to remember to scan it for you.