| Creator Fletcher Hanks (1889-1976) |
| Profession Cartoonist |
| Total Entries 14 |
| Articles Fletcher Hanks: The Most Bonkers Comic Book Creator of All–Time – Mark Peters for McSweeney’s Fletcher Hanks: The Most Twisted Comic Book Artist of All Time – Michael Dooley for Print |
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The cliché that the villains are the most interesting characters in stories does not apply here; in Hanks’s comics, they are generally as uninspired and indistinguishable as the heroes. Instead, both heroes and villains exist as a pretext for unleashing id-driven fury and destruction on the page. Stardust and Fantomah only deem it necessary to come to the rescue after allowing thousands of New Yorkers and “jungle-born” to perish, and when they do finally mete out justice, their vindictive and perverse punishments seem only to further the malicious glee that drives these fascinating, lurid, and creepy comics. ~ Framing Creatures: Fletcher Hanks’s Bleak Comics Vision is Rediscovered – Matt Madden for Bookforum
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