Werewolf, script by Larry Ivie (USA) and art by Frank Frazetta (USA), in: Creepy #1, Warren Publishing, USA, late 1964.
Copyright ©1964 Warren Publishing/Ivie/Frazetta
“Werewolf” by Larry Ivie & Frank Frazetta, USA, late 1964
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“Greyshirt: How Things Work Out” by Alan Moore & Rick Veitch, UK/USA, 1999
Greyshirt: How Things Work Out, script by Alan Moore (UK) and art by Rick Veitch (USA), in: Tomorrow Stories #2, Wildstorm Productions, America’s Best Comics imprint, USA, November 1999. The Greyshirt character is a pastiche of Will Eisner‘s The Spirit.
“In one of the Greyshirt stories in Tomorrow Stories, we did something very peculiar with the panel layouts. We had an apartment building, the same building, upon ever page. There are four horizontal panels on each page. Then, to add another element, we made it so that the top panels are all taking place in 1999, the second panel down on each page is taking place in 1979, the panel beneath that takes place in 1959, and on the bottom panel of each page, you’re seeing the bottom of the building as it was in 1939, when it was a fairly new building. We’re able to tell, by some quite complicated story gymnastics, quite an interesting little story that is told over nearly sixty years of this building’s life, with characters getting older depending upon which panel and which time period they’re in. There’s something that you couldn’t do in any medium other than comics.” Alan Moore (as cited on The Great Comic Book Heroes website), 2001.
Dear students, this story was later published in the collection Tomorrow Stories book 1 (soft cover) by DC Comics.
Copyright ©2004 DC Comics/Moore/Veitch
“Barnyard Animals” by Craig Thompson, USA, 2002
Barnyard Animals by Craig Thompson (USA), in: Dark Horse Maverick: Happy Endings (anthology), Dark Horse, USA, September 2002.
Dear students, the anthology Dark Horse Maverick: Happy Endings is available @ Kinokuniya bookstores.
Copyright ©2002 Craig Thompson
More on the topic in my paper Muted and Mutated: Animal-headed characters in autobiographic trauma-related comic books in: Asylum, the magazine for democratic psychiatry: Comics & Mental Health Part 4, Winter 2015, Vol.22/4, Monmouth (UK).
“Double Escape” by Moebius, FR, 1980
Double Escape (“Double évasion”) by Moebius (FR), in: Métal Hurlant magazine #50, France, April 1980.
Copyright ©1980 Les Humanoïdes Associés/Moebius Production
Moebius’ Double Escape final panels displays interesting similarities – as a visual oxymoron (simultaneously falling and raising) – with the last page of Will Eisner‘s The Spirit: The Story of Gerhard Schnobble, USA, September 5, 1948. Copyright ©2005 Will Eisner Studios, Inc.
“The White Nightmare” by Moebius, FR, 1974
The White Nightmare (“Cauchemar blanc”) – not a science-fiction tale but a ‘down-to-earth dream’ related to a racist incident – by Moebius (FR), in: L’Écho des Savanes magazine #8, France, 1974. Via Glad You Asked.
Adapted into a short film (in French language) by French director Mathieu Kassovitz in 1991.
Copyright ©1974 L’Écho des Savanes/Moebius Productions
“Cthulhu Mythos: The Haunter of the Dark” by Alberto Breccia & Norberto Buscaglia, AR, 1975
Cthulhu Mythos: The Haunter of the Dark (“Los mitos de Cthulhu: El morador de la tinieblas”), script by Norberto Buscaglia (AG) and art by Alberto Breccia (AG), based on the short story The Haunter of the Dark by H.P. Lovecraft, in: Los mitos de Cthulhu,
Ediciones Periferia, Argentina, December 1975. With original art (page 6) below.
Copyright ©1975 Alberto Breccia Estate
(English scanlation & lettering by Vampire State Building)
“The Virtuoso” by Wilhelm Busch, DE, 1865
The Virtuoso (“Der Virtuos“) by Wilhelm Busch (DE), Germany, 1865. Via Animation Resources.
“Arzach” (2 stories) by Moebius, FR, 1975-1976
Arzach / Harzak (two short stories) by Moebius (Jean Giraud, FR) in: Métal Hurlant magazine, France, 1975-1976. Via Pasa La Vida.
Copyright ©1975 Les Humanoïdes Associés
“Batman: Once Upon a Time…” by Len Wein & Walter Simonson, USA, 1981
Batman: Once Upon a Time…, tribute to Charles M. Schulz‘ Peanuts (adaptation of Snoopy’s novel), by Len Wein (USA) & Walter Simonson (USA) in: Detective Comics Vol. 1 #500, DC Comics, USA, March 1981.
Between “August and September of 1969, Charles M. Schulz devoted a few weeks’ worth of strips to Snoopy’s novel.” In 1981, Len Wein wrote a Batman “two-pager with art by the great Walt Simonson. The story has no dialogue. It only has captions. The captions? All lines from the aforementioned Snoopy novel!!” Brian Cronin, Comic Book Resources, 2010.
Peanuts strips: Copyright ©1969 United Feature Syndicate/Charles M. Schulz
Batman story: Copyright ©1981 DC Comics
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