a comic drawn by the late Bernie Mireault from a Captain America comic he drew at age 21. "America. Ya. Over 200 million people live here. Some are good, some are bad, but they will all tell you it's a great place to live. It is a land of dreams. Some are nice, some are...uncomfortable. Some are nightmares." Immortal words written by a Canadian.
John Linton Roberson has been showing this page from Joe Matt's Peepshow strip collection from Kitchen Sink Press. It features him and Bernie Mireault as two young cartoonists scraping by. Even before Mireault's recent suicide and Matt's recent death after living a meager and miserly existence for the last several years (albeit willingly), John said it worked as a cautionary tale and urged him to not be broke and destitute in life. I have more thoughts about Joe's work in particular. Particularly the last work he ever did.
Canadian cartoonist Bernie Mireault took his own life last week. A cartoonist I knew from his various appearances in Joe Matt's Peepshow and his work for anthologies like Taboo, I wish I had gotten into his work more back in the nineties. I just found out about his band Bug Eyed Monster. Here's one from his YouTube page.
