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Interview with brendan mccarthy

yawn - thing's buddy

08:22 / 05.12.05

linky

In it:

he claims to have invented Danny the Street for GM's doom patrol

he reckons GM dropped the ball with Vinamarama

he declares 'Death Ray' by Daniel Clowes to be maybe the best comic book ever.

he gives a highly sought-after nod to Frank Quitely's draughting skills

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Sa good read.

innit.

(it's a couple o' months old - maybe you read already)

The Falcon

10:52 / 05.12.05

'Danny la Rue'; oh God, I totally never got that.

It's a spot-on comparison between Rogan and Vima, though, he's right.

Haus of Mystery

11:01 / 05.12.05

Cheers Yawno - I've only ever read 1 interview with the Godhead before. Always good to have more.

yawn - thing's buddy

13:21 / 05.12.05

macready - was it that one in ARK magazine circa 1988? the one with Brendan MacCarthy's favourite things?

Haus of Mystery

13:33 / 05.12.05

Deadline actcherley. Early issue i think, with the old-school logo. Not as enlightening as this one though. When the fook is someone a) going to republish Rogan Gosh
and b) Reprint Swifty's Return?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

14:04 / 05.12.05

Duncan- I only got the joke fairly recently, despite the Danny issues having been my favourites (except the Beard Hunter, obviously).

sleazenation

15:39 / 05.12.05

Rogan Gosh was reprinted by Vertigo around 1993...

The Timaximus, The!

01:49 / 06.12.05

Rogan Gosh was reprinted by Vertigo around 1993...

And is, in my experience, COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE to find. I'm not even sure it exists.

Sorry. /threadrot

sleazenation

02:34 / 06.12.05

It's definitely hard to track down these days... but back in the mid-90s it seemed like we were drowning in Rogan Gosh... I am given to understand that it occasionally turns up on various bittorrents tho...

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

03:47 / 06.12.05

I actually found it completely by random one day. Dove on it immediately; Rogan Gosh! I have to say I was enjoyed it, but it struck a lot of similar cords with Flex Mentallo, even if the overall ideas were completely different.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

07:30 / 06.12.05

RG was ace. It totally needs to be collected. Proof, if proof be need be, that Pete Milligan is actually two different people. The one who wrote Rogan Gosh is the genius of the two. The one that did those terrible X-Men is clearly not.

McCarthy's art's lovely, and the story is such a wonderful thing to hang it from- it's been a while, but as I remember it's fucked enough to let McC go totally nuts with it, but hangs together just enough to give those lovely pictures some context.

yawn - thing's buddy

09:06 / 06.12.05

top of reprint demands:

SOONER OR LATER

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