Those of us who grew up on Marvel Comics, and who were exposed to the adventures of Dr Strange from a very young age, would surely have never needed to dabble in supposedly-mind-expanding drugs. We’d already been to the Dark Dimension to sort out Dormammu, several times. A little tab that makes you see funny [...]
Bible John: A Forensic Meditation
Regular PsychSkull readers will know I’m no fan of Grant Morrison’s work but he has managed to produce one piece of writing during his career that I still find interesting today: Bible John, a Forensic Meditation. Originally serialised in IPC’s Crisis comic throughout 1991, the story was a personal exploration of the enduring mystery of [...]
Ghost World
I read the first collected edition of Daniel Clowes’ Ghost World in 1998 and ten years on it remains one of my favourite comics. It was the first time I felt that this idea of comics “maturing” (remember that?) might actually happen. There’d been the false starts in the late 80’s and the brief triumph [...]
