As a follow-up to my last entry, extolling the virtues of small-press comics, I thought I’d tell you about this item I came across in my Web travels:
What you’ve got right there is a copy of the Lorelei #1 digest-size comic that I wrote, drew, and published back in 1991, with a cover by the late, great horror-comics artist Tom Sutton.
Lorelei #1 was a follow-up to the one-shot comic I published in 1989 (see the small-press blog post for that cover), and the last Lori comic I drew, as I eventually decided that I was a better writer than I’ll ever be a great (or even fast) artist. And yes, the cover you see here is hand-colored, in markers and pencils (and, I think, a little crayon, too). Thank God I only did that awful coloring on a photocopy!
(FYI, the unscrewed-with, original black-and-white Sutton art will be making its publishing return, this time as the frontispiece for the graphic novel Lorelei: Sects and the City. Wait until you see the detail in that art—nobody could draw dead guys and creepy maggots like Tom Sutton!)
Finding the above listing on eBay was certainly a big surprise—almost as much as realizing that the seller wanted $20.00 for it! I guess he was trying to lure Sutton art completists.
Jeez, does seeing that old thing take me back. Makes me wonder what other ancient Lorelei stuff is out there on the ’Net…
