![]() ![]() The earlier books focused on Martin’s relationships during high school and college. Fans, mainly in the UK and Australia, kept its reputation alive, and when solicited for a new issue, Frankenstein drew it in a year (2011), while walking around on his job. Caliber Press published five issues, between 19. He was born near the Chicago municipal incinerator, whose cadmium and lead-laced emissions, he says, endowed him with the “dual super-powers of drawing-ability and sickness.”įrankenstein created Martin “as a person to live through.” It blended his life with fantasy, which, come to think of it, is probably true of all fiction – and not a little non. Casanova Nobody Frankenstein had been Alfred Martin Frank, III, until changing his name in Texas District Court, on June 13, 2013. Popeye Rape-Whistle seems to have no direct predecessor in the popular arts, though the felon who ravished Temple Drake with a corncob in Sanctuary does come to mind. (Wikipedia states that, despite plot lines which had him a car thief, con man, and womanizer nick-named “Tad the Cad,” Martin represented “the good.”) Casanova Frankenstein was the evil genius who opposed Captain Amazing in the comic Mystery Men. Tad Martin was named for a character in the soap opera All My Children. “Strangely,” he said, “most readers thought I went overboard there.” by arguing it might scare off shoppers in Walmart.īut at lunch with a literary novelist friend who had just authored his first crime book, I complimented his concluding slash-by-slash scalpel-vs.-straight-razor fight, as well as the detailed description of the racoon-ravaged, dismembered, naked maid found beneath his protagonist’s home. I was, after all, a guy who had swallowed his publisher’s defense of the omission of the word “Pornographers” from my title Outlaws, Rebels, Freethinkers, Pirates &. Which did not make me feel any more ready for the trip Frankenstein’s pages promised. The whole title seemed to have been a marketing decision. No corpse was fucked, and no secrets about corpse-schtupping were revealed. At the same time, I thought, How the hell did Creative Writing 101a get me here?Īctually TM 6 had no character named Popeye Rape-Whistle. One week later, a journal editor had the same idea. Popeye Rape-Whistle in The Secrets of Corpse-Fucking.” The publisher believed me the perfect person to review it. 2015), by Casanova Frankenstein, “the artist, formally (sic) known as Al Frank,” is entitled “Tad Martin Vs. The first story in the comic The Adventures of Tad Martin, #Sick Sick Six (Teenage Dinosaur and Profanity Hill. ![]() The Adventures of Tad Martin, #Sick Sick Six
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