The hyperreal detail of his sci-fi comics anticipated hi-res CGI.

His Frankenstein was serious, then comical, then scary.

Innumerable artists have based their entire careers on the briefest of his ideas.

This post is a sequel to a more informal post at Crooked…

One of the most wigged-out artists on Earth.

He showed most comic auteurs how it’s done.

He is the poet of what you think you might have heard.

A cartoonist to watch out for.

Everyone sprouts big square teeth when they’re angry!

His line carries the express­ive shab­biness of scratch and squiggle.

A single glimpse of his commix will send you insane.

Joe Alterio signposts the Game of Life.

His twisted, manic art paved the way for today’s highbrow comics scene.

A child’s garden of verses overrun by drunken mermaids!

“Tarts and squidbeasts frolicking on a massive scale.”

Adam McGovern on Dwayne McDuffie.

Adam McGovern on R. Sikoryak’s MASTERPIECE COMICS.

The skewed, cynical vision of an anti-Disney.

There’s no point being dainty about it; Dirty Plotte means dirty cunt….

CHESTER GOULD (1900-85) missed his calling as a professional designer of deathtraps….

Brilliant at breaking down everyday life into discrete moments.

“My nose is blown, doc,” mopes a bandaged bloodhound cop as he…

Unlike Baudrillard, Deleuze, and Foucault, exact contemporaries of his who were merely…

In all of her writing and art TOVE JANSSON (1914-2001) paid keen…