{"id":633,"date":"2009-12-12T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2009\/12\/moremoore\/"},"modified":"2009-12-12T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T18:23:00","slug":"moremoore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=633","title":{"rendered":"moreMoore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey everybody. Frank Santoro here. I’m still in “pitch mode'”after last week’s awesome convention<\/a>. So, my post this week is another episode in my obsessive quest to understand<\/span> mid ’80s independent comics. As usual, I ain’t got nothin’ much to say. Just riffing. Check this comic out if you see it around.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>cover<\/span><\/p>\n

Upshot Graphics, 1986. “A division of Fantagraphics,” it reads on the indicia.(Anyone remember the story with Upshot? Cuz I forget.) It’s called Flesh and Bones<\/span>. Basically another Dalgoda<\/a> vehicle. Jan Strnad. Good writer. Did some work with Kevin Nowlan that I like. Dennis Fujitake’s art on the lead story, Dalgoda<\/span>, is solid, if a little stilted. A little too Moebius for me. But with none of the real drawing chops of Moebius. Anyways. Flesh and Bones<\/span> was a book that re-presented Dalgoda<\/span> and also had back up stories. Very good back-up stories.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> <\/span>Dalgoda art<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve seen this book in the bins for years but I spaced on who actually did the back up story. Well, it was Alan Moore. A reprint from a black and white magazine called Warrior<\/span> from 1983. The story is called the BoJeffries Saga<\/span>. For this version, it’s been shrunk and colored. A little hard to read at first. But once I got settled it played out like a pleasant little British comedy. You know. That wacky British humor that is sort of really subtle and eccentric at the same time? Yah. Great story. The art is like a leftover ’70s hodgepodge. Not bad. Steven Parkhouse. Cool image on the back cover. Should have been the front cover. I guess Dalgoda<\/span> had to get top billing.<\/p>\n

Moore’s story is about a rent collector. I could sort of read into this story from ’83 and imagine what Moore would go on to do. Basically, I would read into the rent collector character and imagine him to be Rorschach. What if Rorschach was sent around to collect the rent? Hurm.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>back cover<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> <\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0BoJeffries Saga\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> <\/span>BoJeffries Saga<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

This is that funny moment in 1986 when there was a sort of “Comics Renaissance” gaining critical mass. Alan Moore was part of that. So was Fantagraphics. And so was Heidi MacDonald<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Look at the article Heidi wrote back when there was no internet. It was a two-page article in this issue of Flesh and Bones<\/span>. She’s asserting that Kirby, Tezuka, and Herg\u00e9 are the “Gods of Comics.” Has her Pantheon of Comics Gods changed? I wonder…<\/p>\n

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Hey everybody. Frank Santoro here. I’m still in “pitch mode’”after last week’s awesome convention. So, my post this week is another episode in my obsessive quest to understand mid ’80s independent comics. As usual, I ain’t got nothin’ much to say. Just riffing. Check this comic out if you see it around. cover Upshot Graphics, 1986. “A division of Fantagraphics,” it reads on the indicia.(Anyone remember the story with Upshot? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,90,555,752,924],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-moore","tag-back-issues","tag-macdonald","tag-nowlan","tag-moebius"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}