You really never know what your audience is gonna react to and what they won’t.
I printed this as a back up in Anxiety Sleep Problems and Depression #2 and it seemed to go pretty much unnoticed.
Basically, this comic’s text was taken word for word from one of the many letters my Grandfather wrote to my Grandmother back home during WWII. Somehow,my Grandmother was oblivious to the kind of combat that Grandpa was seeing overseas. This was proven by him thanking her for the curtains(!?) she sent to him before storming Normandy.
At least she had the good sense to keep all the letters.
What else can I say? Oh yeah, the comic was beautifully inked by my pal Brad McGinty and all the details were carefully researched from the pages of Sgt.Rock.
Published by Josh Latta
Mr Josh Latta was born in 1853 to a family of tamed Pleistocenes. he was raised as a small child, entering into adulthood on the eve of his 7th birthday as was the tradition of the day. in 1867 he undertook a course in multi-reptile wrestling ending his career as 'croc-tussler' after an unfortunate shallow-river related accident cut short the life of a young crocodile. moving to rural Sheboigan in the fall of 1872, he made a good living raising fancy roosters and painting murals across the town depicting the various lascivious secrets of the townsfolk. driven out of town in the spring of 1873 he found his way to Utah where he was Flaneur in Residence at the Foundation of Gentlemen and Cultured Guinea Pigs (now the Foundation of Water Fowl and Cultured Guinea Pigs) until a scandal involving twin milkmaids and a churn of cream called for his resignation. Latta entered into the history books in 1899 for his lifesize construction of Monument Valley in matches.
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I always loved that comic. It’s really great looking. I don’t think I ever knew it was taken from a real letter. Very cool.
Thanks Shannon,
I think you and my Dad were the only ones that liked it.
In fact, my Dad has it framed in his hall.
Bullshit. I loved the fuck out of that comic and told you that you and Brad should make more comics like this. The layouts looks great and Brad’s inking is phenomenal.
Thanks Patrick,
and if, for whatever reason, someone is reading this and doesn’t already know:
http://patrickdeancomics.com/
Fine. If you don’t want to support my line of delicious roast beef sandwiches and curly fries, then try to push my mini-comics onto your blog viewers. Whatever.
I bet that looks pretty fantastic framed. What size did you draw that at?
I think, like 11X14. Strathmore makes these natural white drawing pads that i like to use. I can’t stand Bristol board.