By Max (Knockabout Comics)
ISBN 0-86166-079-X
Come back with me to the 1980s. It’s the first time that the cultural phenomenon of Punk Rock experienced a wave of Nostalgic Wistfulness – if not a full revival. Back then a rowdy and raucous strip from Europe was collected into a saucy, strident album that reads terribly well in our Post-Post-Modern Twenty-First Century.
Peter Pank is a sexy, sexist, ultra-violent and in-your-face-and-up-your-nose pastiche of J.M. Barrie’s immortal classic with the eponymous Oik who never grew up luring a much more physically mature Wendy and her two brothers to the fabulous realm of Punkland to have adventures with Hippies, nymphomaniac Sirens and the dreaded Captain Quiff and his desperate band of Teddy Boys.
Fast-paced, well drawn, irreverent, obnoxious and very, very rude this guilty graphic secret is a daft but readable treat for any adult that “had to be there, Manâ€, or even actually was…
© 1987 Max & Ediciones La Cupula. All Rights Reserved.
Not my cup of tea but very entertaining..
Do you know the work of Jose MarÃa Beroy? He is drawing your ‘Dr. Who’ right now
I’ve not seen much, mostly translated stuff from Heavy Metal, but what I have seen is pretty impressive.
Didn’t he work with Pascual Ferry for awhile?
Yes, in the 80’s they were the most important comic artists in Spain. In the 90’s Ferry went to work for Marvel and DC and Beroy changed comics for advertising..but he’s back with a vengeance! 😉
This is his blog where it can be seen what he is doing now:
http://beroyblog.blogspot.com/
Thanks for the heads-up!