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World’s Unknown #6: “The Thing Called… KILLDOZER” (April 1974)

[George Meany, in perhaps the most boring voice ever] Well, Krusty, that depends on what you mean by “crisis”….

Irina Vasilyeva

Hobby Japan No. 233, 1988.

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Maggots is a difficult work not only narratively but also physically. It is almost impossible to read what he drew. He worked on used Japanese catalogs and printed Japanese letters in a way that obscures his words. Even if the reader was able to decipher the meaning in a panel, the sequence of panels on a page is usually not in order, so passage of time is unclear. The background is obsessively covered with his line – what we can see is usually only black or grey color plate. He hardly hints as to the whereabouts the images reference. There is no overall narrative. Disparate episodes are next to each other. A guy dates, hangs out with friends, goes abroad, listens to music, eats, runs and fights. Brian Chippendale depicts each behavior with repetitive panels with slight modification. Along with aforementioned intensively covered background, this fervid action-filled drawing delivers the gushing energy of youngsters. This outpouring of energy, however, does not imply positive aspects. The convoluted lines of the drawing along with the disordered panels, disconnected time and space, and non-linear narrative suggest the confusion and anxiety of the youth. Moreover, the impenetrability of the work – from elements (words) to narrative as a whole – alludes to jevenile tendency for protectiveness. ​ Maggots is the epitome of comics that art speaks more than words.

Then this happened.

“Play Time” by Joe Matt. From The Mindgame Gallery #1, published by Mindgame Press, July 1990.

E.C. Segar, 1930.

Important when Canadians make more than us yankees