Don’t see it as an opportunity for me to gloat, but for you to get to hear about great shopping opportunities. Which there are, as keen eyed viewers will have spotted the six Krazy Kat collections lurking in that shot, all bought at De Slegte for less than six euros each. Plenty are still available. Also gotten there, two issues of the Pontiac Review I didn’t have yet (Peter Pontiac being the closest Holland has to an underground legend like Crumb or Spain), plus perhaps the best catch of the lot, the new hardcover collection of Evan Dorkin’s Milk & Cheese, which I actually did pay full price for because Dorkin is a god amongst cartoonists and deserves all the succes he can get.
Not pictured: two more Bob Morane issues and the 1986 The Art of George Herriman, as well as a collection of Rian Hughes’ stories that Image for some reason put out last year. Hughes being England’s answer to Yves Chaland or Serge Clerc, working in the same sort of retro-fifties/early sixties art style. You’ll know him, if you do, from being the artist on the early Grant Morrison Dan Dare revisionist series Dare. A brilliant little collection this which should be gotten just for that Dare series, but the rest looks swell as well.
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