19/08/2025
Excerpt from Issue 2 of The Glom Letter 💌 - we asked to choose three images that he’s thinking about right now & tell us more about them.
1: A page by Tom Sutton from “Brain Fever”, a Charlton story in Haunted #27, 1976.
Amongst a smorgasbord of artists I love from the 1970s and 80s a lesser-known gem is Tom Sutton, who had an eccentric, wild looseness to his work. Sutton’s dark, inky brush and fevered chicken scratching evokes the horror mood perfectly, but also the thrilling force and tactility of drawing, which as an artist sparks joyful feelings in my brain.
2. Carl Barks, Two panels from a Donald Duck story, 1951.
Carl Barks has been my big discovery this year. There’s something to the seemingly effortless flow and construction of his stories which makes reading them such a pleasure. It took awhile for me to begrudgingly put aside my childhood hatred of Disney to finally appreciate one of the true masters, and I urge you to do the same!
3. An excerpt from Zeinab Mir’s comic Zeinab, self published by Refugee Art Project, 2024.
Zeinab Mir is part of the community art org I volunteer with, called Refugee Art Project. A joy of working with diverse communities is to see people who haven’t made art before really attack it and tell powerful and original stories. Comics should be democratic and accessible, and Zeinab’s stuff is a powerful reminder of the medium’s potential.
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