Zach McCue

Angry Hairy Bub Man

Matt Groening told a story recently about attempting to interview S. Clay Wilson, everything came out sounding like a slurring Tasmanian Devil. He still has those 40 year old tapes somewhere, waiting to be digitized and released to the world.

What I don't understand is Guillermo willingly relinquishing the opportunity to give us the most faithful adaptation of the novel to Kenneth Branagh's tonally bizarre Mary Shelley's Frankenstein from 1994.

"Happy Halloween, BOILS and GHOULS! Hope you have a fab-BOO-lous night trick or treating! Don't fall for the old 'razor blade in an apple' trick, I've heard those are particularly difficult to...Choke down!" #happyhalloween #talesfromthecrypt #eccomics #cryptkeeper

BTW, the back cover ad for Mazda is pure pop-art perfection.

This past weekend, I picked up the September 25, 1971 issue of 'Manga Sunday'. It's mostly gag manga aimed at young men (with some legends like Shotaro Ishinomori contributing). What really caught my eye were these pen and ink illustrations of gag manga-ka Yasuji Tanioka.

It was also one of those stories where Batman genuinely is trying to help reform one of his villains, which I like.

I ended up getting two copies of this yesterday, read it last night, one of Alan Moore's only times writing Batman-proper other than The Killing Joke. Surprisingly sad story, really makes you feel sympathy for the Preston Payne version of Clayface (who is genuinely mentally ill).

Inktober 2025 Day 11: Sting
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Inktober 2025 Day 10: Sweep
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"And remember, my friends;
Future events such as these - will affect YOU in the future!"

Inktober 2025 Day 9: Heavy
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Inktober 2025 Day 8: Reckless
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Inktober 2025 Day 7: Starfish
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Sorry, no #inktober post today due to work/life stuff, here's some complimentary sketchbook pages to tide everyone over until tomorrow, I'll be back with day 7 and 8 then!

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Inktober 2025 Day 6: Pierce
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Inktober 2025 Day 5: Deer
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Inktober 2025 Day 4: Murky
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Inktober 2025 Day 3: Crown
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Inktober 2025 Day 2: Weave
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Inktober 2025 Day 1: Mustache
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The Road Warriors! Hawk and Animal were the greatest tag team in the history of wrestling. This is my take on the classic ad for NES WCW World Championship Wrestling that ran in all the comics in the late-80's / early-90's ("BE A VIDEO WARRIOR!").

Pizza Warlock, redrawn and now in color. I wanted his hands to be doing something more dynamic and interesting than what was in the original drawing.

Hey Chris,
You mentioned Golden's scrapped Action Comics Annual with Claremont. Claremont showed me xeroxes of the pages at Emerald City Comic-con a couple years ago. From what I've gathered, Marvel shut it down because they believed Claremont doing the annual violated his exclusivity contract.

Batman Day 2025!!! Was up all night working on this. Coloring based heavily on the eye-popping coloring of Adrienne Roy in Batman no. 365. #BatmanDay #BatmanDay2025

Remember when Iron Man was cool? A lot of Gary Panter's influence in this, as well as Tony Millionaire's take on Iron Man from the early-2000's anthology 'Strange Tales', which featured a litany of alternative and indie cartoonists giving their interpretation of Marvel characters.