Welcome to my Comics Collage

This area represents some, but not all, of my comic intrests. I'm currently into Strangers in Paradise, Books of Magic, Elf Quest, Bone, Gen13, Box Office Poison, Impulse, and Young Justice, to name a few that I think I have a chance of pictorally depicting here. This is actually the third incarnation of this page, since, due to technical problems, has killed itself once, and deleted itself the other time. May this one live long and prosper!

And now, the long awaited addition to my comics pages. Click here!

This is the whole group, or "bunch," that composes Gen13. The top left, as you may have guessed, is Fairchild. Top right is Bobby, known as Burnout, who discovered he is the som of their leader, John Lynch. Middle row, left to right is: Sarah, known as Rainmaker, their robotic maid, Anna, and Percival Edmund Chan, known as Grunge. Bottom row, left to right: Roxy, known as Freefall, the leader, John Lynch, and the little alien critter, Quelocke, they picked up on one of their adventures.

This is Cutter, the tenth Chieftan of the Wolfriders, who are faithfully chronicled in their time-spanning saga by the artist/writer team of Wendy and Richard Pini of WaRP Graphics. He and his tribe are descendants of alien survivors of a terrible accident on the world of two moons, left stranded in tine and space, and even shape. These former shape shifters and their companions, other life-forms from their homeworld, struggle to survive the savage world with unstable magic, harsh elements, and... humans.

This is the cover of a graphic novel collection of Jeff Smith's Bone, a truly amusing funny comic, that hints of sagas to come, even as the main characters, the bone cousins: Fone Bone, who writes embarrassing poetry and reads Moby Dick; Foney Bone, his greedy and conniving cousin; and Smiley Bone, his appy-go-lucky, if not terribly bright, big hearted cousin; have harrowing adventures with Thorn, a young peasant girl (or is she?) and her Grandma Ben, who wins the annual Great Cow Race every year. Then there are the "Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures!," who argue about how to cook their prey, as one always craves quiche and the other is "insensitive" to the first one's needs.

This is Caitlin Fairchild, or Kat, of Gen13. She and her family are the 13th generation of a genetic experiment to make what basically amounts to super-powered soldiers. Starting out as a slender, geeky computer-nerd, when Caitlin got her powers, she really filled out! She is now very, VERY strong, and at least semi-invulnerable. Now she's got brawn that matches her brains!

These two girls from Houston are the "stars" of Terry' Moore's Strangers in Paradise. The brunette on the left is Francine Peters, a sweet shy girl, raised in a home where food=love, and the blonde is Katherine Choovanski, or Katchoo, whose background is much rougher than her gentle friend's. Best friends since bonding in high-school, together they face the most bizarre and heart-rending adventure of all- real life.

This, again, is Cutter, holding aloft his father's sword- New Moon, which holds a secret that will help him in his quest of discovery and survival. Next to him is his companion and friend, Nightrunner. He is surrounded by the spirits of the ten chiefs who came before him, from the wolfen feral Timmorn Yellow Eyes, the first leader, to Cutter's own father, Bearclaw. The chieftain's lock symbolizes the power of leadership, is passed down through the bloodline of Timmain's descendants. Their common ancestor, Timmain, shapeshifted to a wolf's form with the last of her shape changing magic to ensure her delicate elfin tribe's survival.

This is art from the first graphic novel collection of Strangers in Paradise, though here it is from a trading card. This first collection was my first exposure to SiP, as the fans abbreviate it, and I read my brother's copy, which he then gave away to a very dear friend of his who never read comics before. One of the amazing things about this, and other less than mainstream comics, is their ability to reach readers who "don't read comics." Another thing I like and find unusual about this particular book is Terry's use of not only the regular sequential art of comic format, but use of prose segments, poetry, and even written music. It is a work of art, and a work of heart.

This is Terry's art for one of the T-shirts that comes out annually to support the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a fund started to help pay for lawyers and legal expenses in defense of first amendment rights of comic book writers and artists. There have actually been artists ordered by judges' rulings never to draw again, even for their own personal enjoyment, without publishing it. If you can, please find a way to support this fund, and the rights of our country's artists and creative people. Please visit their site at: