Fletcher Hanks: C/D/Insane?

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I don't know if cross-posting is frowned upon at ILC -- if so, apologies in advance -- but this thread at TCJ seems to consolidate most of the inter-Hanks. I think there is some Hanks stuff in Dan Nadel's new "Art Out of Time," and Paul Kurasik is putting together a veritable Hanksopedia for release via Fantagraphics in a few months.

So . . . this stuff . . . it's definitely . . . something.

"I'll make you red-blooded American boys into a SIXTH Column!"

― Greg Marsh (Greg M.), Saturday, 22 July 2006 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

Heh...Fletcher Hanks' stuff always reminds me of Nazario's Anarcoma. (NSFW)

There's a big name pro in CAPA-Alpha (which I recently rejoined) who's gaga for Hanks and is just a few books away from collecting every comic with his work. He's pretty excited about this upcoming collection.

― Whitman Mayonnaise (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 22 July 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Uh, tried to link to that Anarcoma page: http://www.rackham.dk/artikel/billeder/Magnussen/Fig.104.jpg (NSFW, just in case you needed another reminder. -MOD.)

― Whitman Mayonnaise (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 22 July 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

That's not very nice (or good).

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Saturday, 22 July 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I did say NSFW, and linked instead of posted.

― Whitman Mayonnaise (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 22 July 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I'm not balming you, I'm a big boy.

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Saturday, 22 July 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Blaming you, even.

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Saturday, 22 July 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just now reading "The Death of Captain Marvel" and Jim Starlin reminds me A LOT of Fletcher Hanks.

― Greg Marsh (Greg M.), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

seven months pass...

The aforementioned collection of 15-or-so of his stories should be out in June 2007. FWIW, I'd say his style and sensibility are not unreminiscent of Daniel Johnston (or vice versa, perhaps).

― M.V., Tuesday, 27 February 2007 02:16 (eighteen years ago)

There's a couple of (frankly bizarre) Fletcher Hanks comics covered here:

http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics5.html
http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics29.html

― Jeff Leopard, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

Great Cthulhu! There's a new volume of Fletcher Hanks on the way. Title is You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation!

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 24 July 2009 07:29 (sixteen years ago)

I wasn't that impressed by the first Fletcher Hanks collection. I guess it was an okay read, and yeah, there were some bonkers ideas in his comics, but they didn't feel that much more bonkers compared to other golden age craziness that it would've justified the hype.

― Tuomas, Friday, 24 July 2009 09:58 (sixteen years ago)

I'd forgotten about this guy. He's kind of fascinating. There's something very autistic about his work.

― chap, Friday, 24 July 2009 15:28 (sixteen years ago)

i'm interested in bonkers. point me to more golden age bonkers. i liked that first collection a lot but admit to not ever rereading it.

i think the hype was less bonkers-based than 'here is someone with a peculiar and violent worldview that is captured in these strange comics'

haha read that again and sub in 'boners' for 'bonkers'

― Philip Nunez, Friday, 24 July 2009 18:46 (sixteen years ago)

i imagine if dave sim started drawing minimalist comics of cavemen strangling women for no explicable reason, there'd be some excitement over it, too.

― Philip Nunez, Friday, 24 July 2009 18:48 (sixteen years ago)

imagine if dave sim started drawing minimalist comics of cavemen strangling women for no explicable reason, there'd be some excitement over it, too.

Yeah, but the cavemen would probably be reciting the fucking Torah or something.

― chap, Saturday, 25 July 2009 00:32 (sixteen years ago)

I got the last two copies of this at SDCC. One for me, one for Elvis Telecom.

Oh, and the proper answer to the question of the title is both C and INSANE.

― Matt M., Tuesday, 28 July 2009 00:34 (sixteen years ago)

What gets me about the first volume is that by the end of it you're all ready to embrace the dude in that Ed Wood kind of way, like yeah he had no great talent but look at the crazy passion on display here etc. but then that epilogue shows you that Hanks was probably pretty much an asshole, too, so that whole plucky-though-incompetent cutefying of the dude doesn't work at all.

― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:09 (sixteen years ago)

I think the world view on display in his work paints him as an arsehole.

― chap, Sunday, 2 August 2009 22:11 (sixteen years ago)

I dunno, it's just a cruder version of the general Golden Age superhero world view imo

― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 3 August 2009 02:35 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

excellent munson paddock strip from the 40s that for once deserves the obligatory fletcher hanks comparisons:

http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2010/12/number-853-interplanetary-mailman-meets.html

― Ward Fowler, Friday, 3 December 2010 19:11 (fifteen years ago)

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