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From Badger to Grimjack, ’80s Indie Comics Legends return in new short story anthology Words Only
WORDS: STEPHEN JEWELL
Concrete is the one at the back, in case you wondered.
SUPPORTED BY A PAT BRODERICK COVER AND interior illustrations by many of the original artists, several classic ’80s comics characters, including Concrete, Cerebus and Flaming Carrot, are eschewing the pictures as they make a comeback in new short story collection Legends Of Indie Comics: Words Only.
“Prose fits comfortably on Concrete,” says the stone giant’s creator Paul Chadwick. “My artwork has some cinematic moments but I’ve always leaned towards comics as a literary experience. Concrete’s interior life has always been a focus: his ambivalence, his humiliations, his musings on the future.” “This is the first Doc Stearn prose story,” continues Mr Monster’s Michael T Gilbert. “I found it a fun challenge, working entirely in words, as it exercised a different part of my brain.” “Prose or comics, it makes no difference to me,” adds Badger’s Mike Baron. “They are different forms though, and result in different experiences as there’s added context and mood which you can only do in prose.”