Here you
can find all sorts of information about Bart
Dickon (some of it not in the new Omnibus edition!), sample pages,
colour
panels, an extract from the short story 'The Thunderer' and much else,
together with the chance to visist Bart Mart
to purchase quality artifacts and tasteful gift ideas for the laconic
solipsist in your life.
Reborn into
a New Dark Age, Bart Dickon, the
ideologically-sound secret
agent, bursts once again onto a complacent world of mediocrity to
spread
High Adventure and Derring-do to those astute enough to read of his
doings.
Drawing on the Ancient Egyptian myths of Isis and Osiris, the bandes
desinée of Tintin, Jock and Snowy, the high drama of Dixon
of
Dock Green and the heroic works of the Reverend W.
Audrey,
our protagonist spends most of this epic tale "in corporeal desuetude",
i.e. as a bodyless head. The Odyssey pursues him from procreation, via
birth,
schooldays and an Apprenticeship In The University Of Life (i.e.
dicking
about spending Daddy's money), to his ultimate vocation as 'The English
Assassin', pith helmet-wearing conqueror of something-or-other and
subversive
spy in a world of wickedness and intrepidity. During a romantic
interlude, he is decapitated in flagrante delicto and his dismembered
body is scattered to the four winds. Bart's trusty, youthful and - lets
face it - female sidekick Snowy quests though multiple realities, meets
her doppelganger and after several gender-swaps achieves an unexpected
denouement to the tale. Wildly funny, wildly unlikely and unique in its
combination of intertwining language and image. Original, signed
artwork for sale: click here.
A
remarkable, sustained comic strip saga featuring the
enigmatic
protagonist,
Bart Dickon. First to appear in Talking
Turkey adult comic and later
continued
in the magazines Sun Zoom Spark
and most recently The Chap (see
Linkssection),
the ever-evolving story develops through
multiple
realities, gender-interchange and temporal fractures. You can
access a couple of sample pages of A
Severed Head by clicking on
the 'More Bart Dickon pages!' link
below. For more pages of early work and a description of the
working process and inspirational sources, see the Collage Comix
page in our Loon Comix
Arcive.
A unique publishing
project:
the
production of the whole
piece as 'a proper book' at long last. The entire story has been
expanded and reworked into a continuous graphic novella with supporting
art, short story and strips to make an enviably desirable package. The
glowingly colourful glossy covers contain a bonus colour comic strip 'A
Bulldog Bleeds' on the inside back and front. At 108 pages of
fine artwork, 'The Bart Dickon Omnibus' can be easily purchased by
clicking here.
You
don't need a Paypal account to buy
online from us via their
secure server, just a credit card.
Published November 1, 2005 by Severed Head Books (ISBN: 0-9551579-0-0
/ the new ISBN-13 number is: 978-0-9551579-0-5) -
Below: Bart
celebrates Saturnalia 2005 in fine style...
Explanatory Notes To
The Front Of The Festive Card (hereinafter known as F.O.T.F.C.)
a. Rather pathetic attempts to suggest Christmas theme.
b. Shameless product placement.
c. Serious men in hats (who can't afford to ride inside).
d. No quadrupeds were harmed during the making of this card.
e. Bart Dickon, The Ideologically-Sound Secret Agent, in disguise,
within.
f. Slightly over-egged attempt to suggest that the sales of the book
have sky-rocketed,
utilising pretentious vocabulary.
g. Gentleman with blunderbus to ward off marauders.
h. Badly drawn posts and banner due to inexperience with Illustrator
software.
i. Large wheel.
j. Small wheel.
k. see d.
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