Fan Letter to Kim Deitch 05/27/2020

Leviathan 1-2 05/25/2020

Holy Crap!

Layman and Pitarra (i see your darrows) are killing me! Thassome crazy kaiju! Go to town!

I know it's early in the game but man what a way to start! I love big and little stories together and Layman is no disappointment! Story has to bake, but Pitarra's art keeps my eye so excited that I am just pouring over the pages wondering where the hell this monster is going. I haven't had this much funzilla in ages! I imagine a Shaolin Cowboy, Sabretooth Swordsman, Leviathan Jamocalypse!

Alright, Layman, lessee what happens to ol' Viv and Ryan, and make Pitarra's imagination bleed monsters! Whoo hoo!

First Published Comic Book Letter!

Just found my first comic letter back in Warlord #37.  I signed it Muffin Thundergrunt, a nickname friends and I made up back in 1979 at Mountain View Camp, the Assemblies of God summercamp in Jacksonville in Deep East Texas. Mike Grell was popular enough to get into a Fred Hembeck comic for his Warlord and Green Arrow work. Warlord was amazing! Fantasy, SciFi, and toughguy! Come on, a gladiator with .44 AutoMag pistols. Here it is with any response.

Dear Folks,

     Ish 31 was absolutely super. The cover was the most fantastic of all. Better than "The Hunter." One gripe. Watch production. My cover was off-centered. Pages 2 and 3 were super. I was impressed especially with the blood on the sword. No drips, which is better.

     A small thing: Thanks so much for putting the subscription coupon on the back of ads.  I do so hate cutting up frames of art for a new subscription.

     Here's my WARLORD MOVIE LIST:

     MORGAN: Charlton Heston; MARIAH: Tina Louicse or Marilyn [sic] Henner; TARA: Buffy St. Marie; MACHISTE: George Foreman & DEIMOS: Leonard Nimoy.

Muffin Thundergrunt

Jack C. Harris responds:

Don't blame our production department for your off-center cover. It was the cutting machine at our printer's and such a happening is rare.  Do you realize how much an off-centered print on a STAMP would be worth?

You all realize that there are no plans in the works for a WARLORD movie, but it's fun to try casting such a project. Who knows? Maybe a producer will pick up an issue of the WARLORD and fget an idea from all of this--JCH

Fan Art to Jim Woodring of "Frank"

Just received FRANK, Bk One and I am blown away by Woodring's originality. Nothing else he does is like FRANK, well, except JIM? Anyway, there is no way I can describe this work and make anyone else understand; you should go see it for yourself.

FanArt to Geoff Darrow

Ask Nick Pitarra of LEVIATHAN (if you didn't already know): Geoff Darrow is the shiznits! Do it! Go now and buy all of Shaolin Cowboy and pour over it again and again. This is the guy who designed the squids in the Matrix trilogy. He also created an amazing animated series, BIG GUY AN D RUSTY THE BOY ROBOT! Don't call yourself a comic fan if you don't know Darrow!

FanArt to Lynda Barry

What can I say about Lynda Barry? Like she says, her comics are drawn ugly and she has too many words. That only buys you several titles on the shelves all over the nation, a college professorship, and cartoons in more magazines than I can remember. She is great!