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When Marvel’s Stan Lee Helped Instigate Art Spiegelman’s “Maus”

Nov 26, 2018
3 min

When Marvel’s Stan Lee Helped Instigate Art Spiegelman’s “Maus”

The Art Spiegelman Maus Instigator Among his numerous contributions to the comic book medium, Stan Lee played a part in the evolution of Art Spiegelman’s Maus. Yes, that’s Stan the Spider-Man, Iron Man, and X-Men man. Okay, so many of his self-styled claims to fame are hyperbolic at best and only credible to his delusional True Believers. But in 1974 Stan provided national mainstream exposure to the original three-page “Maus,” Art’s short, self-contained strip – which had fir

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Fletcher Hanks: The Most Twisted Comic Book Artist of All Time

Jan 2, 2018
7 min

Fletcher Hanks: The Most Twisted Comic Book Artist of All Time

Strangely, Fletcher Hanks has become one of the most famous of unknown comic book artists. From 1939 to 1941, he created characters that hardly anyone’s ever heard of. Stardust the Super Wizard. Fantomah the Mystery Woman of the Jungle. Big Red McLane, King of the North Woods. Hanks’ renderings of these stories have been described as clumsy, crude, incompetent hackwork and, most frequently, just plain ugly. Oh, and he was also allegedly a drunk who abused his wife and kids be

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Skip Williamson & Jay Lynch Kept the Fun in Underground Funnies

Mar 22, 2017
4 min

Skip Williamson & Jay Lynch Kept the Fun in Underground Funnies

Those underground comix artists of the 1960s may have been renegade outlaws, but they didn’t escape the “90% of everything is crud” law. Even at the peak of their popularity, I’d flip through most pages of their comic books and simply see a bunch of bland, uninspired visuals blurring into a background of crosshatching chicken-scratchings with little or no sense of design. Only about a dozen stood out, but ah, what a dozen. There were Crumb and Spiegelman, naturally. And of co

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Li'l Abner's Al Capp: A Monstrous Creature, a Masterful Cartoonist

Mar 4, 2013
10 min

Li'l Abner's Al Capp: A Monstrous Creature, a Masterful Cartoonist

No doubt about it: Al Capp engaged in depraved behavior. Most disgraceful was his attempted rape of a number of women, from college co-eds to Grace Kelly. And, as the interview below suggests, there may be more. Capp also created Li’l Abner, once one of America’s most acclaimed comic strips. It began in 1934, the Depression era, and was centered around the fictional, dirt-poor Appalachian town inhabited mostly by innocent yokels and conniving scoundrels. At its best, it ridic

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