MANIAC ISLAND (1986)
Artwork: "Neurotic Expiations In A Nut's Shell" & "Maniac Island" (as featured in DR. WITHAM'S COMIX & STORIES #10, Clifford Neal) © 1986, Rick Grimes. GRIMES: ""Maniac Island" has Nudolph and Cathy Doll, (Sicky Claws' underlings) turn up for a healthy does of karma at the erratic hands and implements of still another combo of newly lumped together 'kiddy-characters' (ie Spiketball Bobo, Mudda Mudda, Billiard-Ball Bull and their unstable overseer, 'The Maniac'). Think: The Island of Dr. Moreau meets Snuffy Smith.This time there is a built-in 'out' at the beginning. It may all be a 'child''s outing in a cardboard box, and did not really happen. (Nudo(lph) and Cathy being the 'children'). At the same time, however, the story gives 'reasons' for why Cathy Doll's foot, (or the lack thereof), is how it is, (or isn't), on the cover. Still my only published cover to date, gamely afforded by Cliff Neal, I am still proud of it as one's ugly baby with the unspoken of disorder. Even did the primitive vellum color overlays. Add it to your essential viewing!" -- Rick Grimes (December 22, 2008).
GRIMES: "Maniac Island - The 'out in the 'real-or-not?' of this story is not a pretend trip in a cardboard box; (that's in a different story). Misremembered. In 'Maniac' the 'out' is when Cathy Doll is hit by the oar. The bulk of their ordeal is, then, possibly Cathy's coma delirium. Then at the end: relief his foot's okay. But, a shark may've gotten the good one. Pretty 'funny', hunh? Their oar-deal. The cover could be 'set' much later, and it 'was' real. Or it, too, is unreal. (So, if I use him again, he'll be back to having two feet)! The character pushing the gurney is Spiketball Bobo. Didn't have room in the story for his name. Or his spiketball, and what it could do. So he is bouncing 'Mudda Mudda' at the end, farewell, instead. Hope all you scientists at home are taking notes." -- Rick Grimes (March 15, 2009). - FURTHER READING: Rick's Sicky Claws' related characters also feature in the following comics / stories: 1966/67 childhood drawing feat. Mudda Mudda: http://www.rickgrimesfansite.net/photo_album1.2.html + "Sicky Claws Conquers The Weird Dicks" (1981): http://www.rickgrimesfansite.net/photo_album3.7.html + "Stinely Stellwick - That Mahogany Chickenhead" (1981 + sketches): http://www.rickgrimesfansite.net/photo_album1.13.html + 'Cow Sow' biscuit dough from 1981: http://www.rickgrimesfansite.net/photo_album1.15.html + 'Sicky Claws' cookies (1982??): http://www.rickgrimesfansite.net/photo_album1.31.html + "Neurotic Expiations In A Nut's Hell" B&W original (1986): http://www.rickgrimesfansite.net/photo_album1.17.html + "The Puzz Fundles" (1984-86): http://www.rickgrimesfansite.net/photo_album3.8.html + "Ladies Items" feat. Mudda Mudda (1994): http://www.rickgrimesfansite.net/photo_album1.24.html + 1997 tooled leather of Nudolph: http://www.rickgrimesfansite.net/photo_album1.26.html. |
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