The Comic Being Published To Try And Find Its Artist, Mike Bannon

The typical About Comics publication is put out as a result of About Comics writer Nat Gertler thinks it is good things… however their newest ebook has an extra motive as nicely. The reprint of a comic book ebook sequence drawn by Mike Bannon is being printed not simply because he thinks it is humorous stuff, however as a result of each the writer and the author want to discover Bannon, who dropped out of contact together with his comics friends nicely over a decade in the past. Attempts to succeed in out to him by outdated contacts and outdated addresses have gone with none response. And so the hope is that this ebook will by some means catch Mike’s consideration, and he’ll notice that folks wish to hear from him.

The comedian ebook To Be Announced! was initially printed by Strawberry Jam Comics within the mid Eighties. Written by Derek McCulloch and drawn by Mike Bannon, the sequence was a parody of tv on the time, displaying the programming of a channel that introduced you all the things from Sesame Street Blues to the musical mega-fund raiser Lemon-Aid. Writer McCulloch would go on to script such acclaimed graphic novels as Stagger Lee and Gone to Amerikay. Artist Mike Bannon, whose richly-detailed bulbous cartoon model had been seen in every single place from the again pages of Cerebus the Aardvark to his standard Old Paper strip in The Comic Buyer’s Guide, has gone on to…. nicely, that is what they’re looking for out.

“If Mike is out there and just doesn’t want to talk to us, that’s certainly his prerogative and we respect that,” says Gertler, who collaborated with Bannon on a number of initiatives. “But if something has happened to him, we want to know. And if he just doesn’t realize that his old chums would like to be in touch, well we’d certainly like to get that word to hm.” People with info that could be helpful on the search for Mike are inspired to drop a line to questions@aboutcomics.com.

To Be Announced! is a 160-page, black-and-white 7″x10″ commerce paperback priced at $10. It is obtainable for ordering from Amazon across the globe, and can quickly be orderable by most US-based on-line bookstores and out there as a particular order out of your native bookshop. It just isn’t being launched by conventional direct comedian ebook retailer distributors. Stores curious about carrying the ebook ought to contact questions@aboutcomics.com immediately.