![]() Like a lot of outsider artists- Darger especially comes to mind, although Hanks's work is nowhere near as beautiful -there's this incredibly primal energy to his work, this pure drive by someone trying to tell stories and make up fantasies when they don't have the best grip on how the real world functions to begin with. The fact that it was written, drawn, published, and collected staggers the mind the comics within seem so strange and otherworldly that it's hard to believe they ever existed.įletcher Hanks was a drunk, a moonshiner, and a manic-depressive bastard who, despite having some decent artistic talent (the comic reproduces a nature sketch of some ducks that he did) turned his ambitions towards crude, insane superhero comics in the 1930's, at the dawn of the American comics industry. Not the best- not by a long shot -but astounding in the literal sense. I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets is one of the most astounding comic books I've ever read. ![]() I had a lot of fun, got some good stuff done, and I've come back bearing treasures. Thanks for letting me take graduation week off, everyone. ![]() "This is a song about a superhero named Tony ![]()
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