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September 25, 2003
Atrocity Tourism: Never, ever piss off cartoonists. Ever.
I got something in the mail, recently. Something different.
This minicomic... and despite being a whopping 88 pages, longer than most full-sized funnybooks, it is, technically, a minicomic... is about a man named Reid Harris Cooper, AKA "Lord Rexington Fear."
Yeah.
Lord Rex apparently once threatened to pigstick two New York cartoonists with a kitchen knife, K. Thor Jensen (Who happens to have a comic on Serializer) and his friend, Cheese Hasselberger. Evidently, his advances towards Cheese's girlfriend were unwelcome, and he's something of a social retard and hanger-on to begin with. This earned him a little talking-to, and he didn't appreciate being reminded of those two facts. Rex dragged out his grudge for months, even going so far as to follow his two mortal enemies to the 2002 Small Press Expo. God knows why.
After making an incomparable jackass of himself at SPX, Lord Rex had earned enough "friends" that he not only became notorious with cartoonists in general... I'd first heard The Tale of Rex some time ago... but inspired this mini.
There's very little scripting in the comic. Most of the stories are illustrations of Rex's pathetic, agonizing LiveJournal entires, word for word. I think my favorite line in the book is his complaint that he'll probably have to pretend to like Carson Daly when he's famous. Rex plans on being famous, you see. The WWF Intercontinental Wrestling Champion, first and foremost. And a famous poet, musician, chef, and world leader. But in the meantime, he's just an enormously fat, unemployed dimwit still living with his folks at 25 and pontificating from his e-pulpit in a state of astonishing, unequaled ignorance.
Did you know the Catholic Church made up Christmas to co-opt Wiccans and Kwanzaa? Rex did.
Anyway, it's a good read. Ther artists involved are all anonymous (although I think I recognize a few) and at all levels of ability, and any profit goes straight to Rex via Paypal, in an uncommon combination of cruelty and charity. You can get your own copy straight from Thor here, and read Rex's Livejournal here. Enjoy.
Posted by Spike at September 25, 2003 09:47 AM
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