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Speaking
of which, when I first met BRENDAN McCARTHY in 1986, I was really
flattered he’d not only noticed me across a crowded convention floor
but actually taken the trouble to speak to me. As a straight-edge,
dress-up dandy from a bohemian, art schoolish, punk rock milieu, I
encountered a great deal of suspicion and derision in the blue collar
world of comics professionals and fans. That was until McCarthy
complimented me on my Byronic floppy cuffs and I suddenly realised
there were others like me in the business. I was no longer alone, and
it wasn’t all blokes and hippies and bachelors with HB pencils tucked
behind their ears. McCarthy’s influence on my own creative development
in the late 80s and early 90s is massive. Brendan was the Dylan to my
Beatles, the Gysin to my Burroughs, the Matthew Corbett to my Sooty…and
showed me that inside is the best and only place to find ‘ideas‘.
Haste ye to www.brendanmccarthy.co.uk to see what makes him, still, my all-time favourite flavour of comics. MINDLESS ONES - partly because I find myself agreeing with almost everything they say but mostly for the brilliant articles and essays on characters I never thought I cared about until the Ones MADE me care. The pieces on Batman villains Bane and the Penguin are remarkable and I can‘t wait to see more along the same lines. Check them out here at www.mindlessones.com
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