Big Comics
April 26th, 2010 | comics talk
Druillet. Warped my mind at a sensitive age. Bought a copy of the LONE SLOANE/DELIRIUS Anglophone volume from 1973 out of a cheapie bin in the early 80s. Formative influence. Druillet, Talbot, Moore, Campbell, Moorcock, Burroughs, Kerouac, Dick. Eight core sites in my creative genome. (A few more, at random: Lessing, Dax, The The, Kneale, Potter, the Kennedy Martins.)
Big Comics were good.
This would make an amazing backpiece
Did you get a Lone Sloane tee-shirt? I think they advertised them in Piloté?
It turns out everything I thought I knew about writing was wrong. At least this ties in with the genius of Philip K. Dick:
Homicidal Cactus Fodder
http://ludicdespair.blogspot.com/2010/04/homicidal-cactus-fodder.html
That explains a LOT of the twisted stuff I’ve encountered in my life. And why it’s disappearing from the mainstream.
Wow, just….wow. I want one.
So, let me make sure I get the references right:
Philippe Druillet
Bryan Talbot
Alan Moore
Eddie or Joseph Campbell?
Michael Moorcock
William Burroughs
Jack Kerouac
Philip K Dick
Ok, now I have to confirm the others too:
Doris Lessing
Dax?
The The
Nigel Kneale – British screenwriter, thrillers with sci-fi and horror themes
Potter?
The Kennedy Martins – brothers who wrote British crime dramas
Warren, would you please confirm the above, especially Dax and Potter? I always enjoy investigating the writer and artists who influence your work.
I second this motion^
@Brian: Potter. There is only one: Dennis Potter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Potter
http://www.yorksj.ac.uk/potter/
See “Pennies from Heaven” and “The Singing Detective,” to start. NOT the movie abominations (although Potter wrote them), the original TV serials. Available on DVD.
Now I want to live in a world where Eddie Campbell was one of the formative influence on Warren Ellis. Or at least, take a holiday there.
As for Druillet, hell yes.
@Mike: Thanks for letting me know about Dennis Potter and his work
@Jurgen: My guess is that Warren was influenced by Joseph Campbell, but I could be wrong. That’s why I threw in Eddie as well as Joseph. Hope that Warren can confirm at some point
Eddie Campbell, not Joseph, yes.