Welcome to the bizarre world of Fletcher Hanks, Super Wizard of the Inkwell. Fletcher Hanks worked for only a few years in the earliest days of the comic book industry (1939-1941). Because he worked in a gutter medium for second-rate publishers on third-r
The Japanese manga artist Yuichi Yokoyama's latest work, Travel, is a wordless journey into the contemporary Japanese psyche. It takes the not unfamiliar plot backdrop of a train ride and turns it into a psychological meditation on the vehicle's architect
Fletcher Hanks was the first great comic book auteur. That is, hewrote, penciled, inked, and lettered all of his own stories. Hecompleted an astonishing 48 stories in three years from 1939-1941. As aone-man-cartooning-band, his work packs the wallop of a
The stories in Syncopated challenge convention, provide perspective, and search out secret truths–all in the inviting, accessible form of comics.Syncopated will give you a daringly different view of the past–from the history of vintage postcards to th
