Comic Relief Flyers

During Dylan's tenure as a comic book store employee (first at Stand-Up Comics in El Cerrito, and then later at Comic Relief in Berkeley/San Francisco) he made occasional flyers and ads for both stores. Former Comic Relief employee Jonathan LaMantia became custodian of the old store ad art after owner Rory Root died, and he recently photographed and posted much of it. Here are works that I was able to identify as Dylan's.

You Will Never Pull One Over On A Real Businessman, Son.

Dylan's rant about comics and publishing from Skim Lizard #5, early-mid 1990's. Click Here to read or download it in pdf format.

Murder Can Be Fun (Revised)

This is the original art, and the published version of the 5-page comic Dylan made for the Murder Can Be Fun comic book, published by Slave Labor in February 1996. It was based on a true story of The Great Train Wreck of 1918, the deadliest train accident in U.S. history.

He used an experimental approach on this one with loose (for him) inking, sgraffito (such as where he scratched out the words "Oh Jesus H. Christ," and using a thick application of pro-white to paint over certain areas. The areas of black and white were inverted before it was printed. I thought he was nuts when he was drawing this, and I still think it is not entirely successful. For example, we disagreed about his use of vernacular language for his characters here. But my opinion on it has changed through the years, and I have grown to really like this comic. The art is so expressive and beautifully loose. Sadly, though I have stored these pages well, the lettering has begun to fade and migrate through to the back of the bristol paper. Download a pdf of both the original and the published artwork here.

Mighty Samson Volume 1 and 3

The recent Mighty Samson reprints Volume 1 and 3 from Dark Horse have introductions written by Dylan.