Fletcher Hanks.

[The Scribe]

http://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/fletcher_henry/fletcher_h_stardust.jpg

Fletcher Hanks. (http://lambiek.net/artists/f/fletcher_henry.htm) the Ed Wood of comics?

Henry Fletcher, pseudonym of Fletcher Hanks.

This was in Wizard #184.

http://www.wizarduniverse.com/magazine/wizard/002869946.cfm

[Jonathan Bogart]

Hanks is pretty awesome. His deliriously illogical stories, contorted language, and visionary graphics (only Basil Wolverton comes close in matching his ability to conjure up profoundly strange images on the slightest of pretexts) are an inspiration to a generation of cartoonists working today. (Most of whom seem to hang out at The Comics Journal's message boards.) He's the guy whose weird images grace the cover of Gerard Jones' Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book.

Unlike Ed Wood, Hanks isn't so bad he's unintentionally enjoyable; he's just good in an entirely different way from nearly everyone else who was doing comics at the time.

[The Scribe]

From what I saw in Wizard his comics look interesting.

Are there trades that collect any of his comics?

[Tony Bang]

I got a preview of Fantagraphics new Hank's collection today, and it was pretty cool. The absurd dream-like story and the crude beauty of the art was quite a surprise.

I'm up for any collection of his work.

[Tony Bang]

From what I saw in Wizard his comics look interesting.

Are there trades that collect any of his comics?


Fantagraphics has one coming out in May.
http://www.amazon.com/Shall-Destroy-All-Civilized-Planets/dp/1560978392/sr=8-1/qid=1168841582/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-6164039-7096159?ie=UTF8&s=books

[MDG]

An issue of RAW reprinted one of Hanks' stories--it was the first time I ever heard of him.

MDG

[The Scribe]

Fantagraphics has one coming out in May.
http://www.amazon.com/Shall-Destroy-All-Civilized-Planets/dp/1560978392/sr=8-1/qid=1168841582/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-6164039-7096159?ie=UTF8&s=books

Great, I'll have to check that out. ;)

[Buzz Dixon]

Fletcher Hanks am da bomb.

I love his stuff and can't wait for the Fantagraphics books.

[MDG]

There's a Hanks story here:
http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/hartford/103/17two1.html

And links to others here:
http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2006/07/fletcher-hanks-fletcher-hanks-comics.html

MDG

[Jeremy A. Patterson]

http://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/fletcher_henry/fletcher_h_stardust.jpg

Fletcher Hanks. (http://lambiek.net/artists/f/fletcher_henry.htm) the Ed Wood of comics?

Henry Fletcher, pseudonym of Fletcher Hanks.

This was in Wizard #184.

http://www.wizarduniverse.com/magazine/wizard/002869946.cfm

He recently made an appearance in the most recent issue of Femforce (#137). In that issue, he got to meet his blonde pointy-eared female counterpart of the same name, but he also falls in love with Synn!

You can find it online at: www.accomics.com


J.A.P.