"... an
astounding example of surreal riffing on culture." Sean Ferrell, PopMatters
"Truly distinctive and unique ... Groundbreaking" Steve Saville, Silver Bullet
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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.
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. 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
Archive. The entire story has been
expanded and reworked into a continuous graphic novella with supporting
art, short story and strips. The
glossy covers contain a bonus colour comic strip 'A
Bulldog Bleeds' on the inside back and front. Published November 1, 2005 by
Severed Head Books (ISBN: 0-9551579-0-0
/ the new ISBN-13 number is: 978-0-9551579-0-5)
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Above: the cover
painting in full
colour: The two Snowies and
Bart escape downstairs with
hilarious results. Two sample pages:-
The lead character is based (nominally and marginally) on the
adventure serial Dick Barton:
special agent on the Home Service, see Borin's side project The Ipswich
Historic Lettering website on the city of Salisbury for more on the
original character and a book about him (and even the theme tune).
Serendipitous, or what? This book is available direct from the author. Contact us for details.
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