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Fishhead #2
Published by ComicMix, October 2007
Ol' Fishhead ain't the scariest thing in the swamp — the Baxter Brothers are just plain vile, and they're fixing to beat Fishhead to a pulp.
Credits: Larry Shell (Writer), Mark Evan Walker (Artist), Michael H. Price (Letterer), Michael H. Price (Writer), Mike Gold (Editor-In-Chief)
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Comments (8)
MARK WHEATLEY (10:39 AM on Mon Oct 15, 2007)
It is so nice to see that underground comics are still alive and well. This is fun stuff guys.
But I was frustrated that the double page spread was not possible to see as a double page spread. Can that be fixed in the reader so that the pages line up correctly?
Michael H. Price (12:12 PM on Mon Oct 15, 2007)
Many thanks, Mark. And as to the postmodern undergrounder stuff overall, you ain't seen nothin' yet!
That double-truck lapse has to do with my having constructed the original demo version with a curtain-raiser title page that didn't get reproduced with this presentation -- its absence sorta throws things off-balance.
Bound to be a way to work things out for the better, for Mark Walker's double-pager really wants seeing all at once -- captures an essence of righteous mayhem.
Paddy (3:25 PM on Fri Oct 19, 2007)
There is a button on the reader to view double page spreads. It's in the top left of the reader and has an image of 2 pages on it.
MARK WHEATLEY (3:33 PM on Fri Oct 19, 2007)
Well - DUH! Actually - the problem is in viewing the pages that were drawn as a double page spread. In this case they fall on the wrong side and don't line up.
Paddy (4:17 PM on Fri Oct 19, 2007)
Oh right. My mistake.
MARK WHEATLEY (5:37 PM on Fri Oct 19, 2007)
Yeah - it would be nice if an easy answer could solve the problem. Hey Glen - can't you just change the page numbering for this chapter?
Elayne Riggs (2:22 PM on Wed Oct 17, 2007)
I love the mood and tone this story sets. Looking forward to Chapter 2.
Michael H. Price (4:30 PM on Wed Oct 17, 2007)
And thank you, Elayne. The setting of that mood is largely the work of Irvin Cobb -- the story's present digression into Al Capp Country notwithstanding -- and Cobb deserves to be as well remembered as Wm. Faulkner and Mr. Clemens and/or Twain.
Some other Cobb tales worth rediscovering are "The Belled Buzzard," a Southern Gothic takeoff on Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Escape of Mr. Trimm," in which a crooked big shot finds himself at large in the wilderness during a flight from justice. These come from a smaller body of work that Cobb called his "grim pieces," as opposed to the bucolic humor of, say, his "Old Judge Priest" stories.