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Last week was another exciting meetup for the MKE Comicbook group – besides having a fun topic “comicbooks you love to hate”, we also had a visit from local artist and comicbook fan, The Skrauss. As reliable as ever, Anodyne Coffee was our great host!
The evening’s topic of discussion was “guilty pleasures” – those particular comicbooks you feel bad about, for liking as much as you do. There were some real “winners” shared!
The list of comicbook “guilty pleasures” included…
– The Micro-Nauts Annual (1979)
-Marvel Premiere: Star-Lord (1981)
-Marvel Spotlight on Son of Satan (1970s)
-Defenders (100th double-sized)
-Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E.
-pretty much everything by Kaare Andrews (Iron Fist, Spider-Man: Reign)
-pretty much everything by Howard Chaykin (The Shadow, Black Kiss)
–Ghost Rider 2099 (1994)
–Preacher (1995-2000)
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After we got through chuckling and chatting about what made these comics so bad and so good, The Skrauss took the floor and shared with us a lot of his paintings. These included a series of recreated, classic comicbook covers, and a series that told the tale of “The Escape of Panama Dorado”!
The “Escape” is series of paintings, in comic-strip form, told the story of Panama, a female character escaping from a two-dimensional world into our three-dimensional one, from “Milwaukee 2” into the “real” Milwaukee! But, even the “real” Milwaukee has a history unlike our own! In The Skrauss’ “real” Milwaukee, there are three distinct eras –
1. Ancient Milwaukee – which burned down long ago,
2. Old Milwaukee – which floated out into Lake Michigan and sunk,
and 3. Milwaukee 2 – the current version of the city!
You can find The Skrauss all over the Internet – Twitter, FBook, YouTube – and on occasion, you can even find his paintings out in the wilds of Milwaukee – where he might leave one for free to the person that can locate it!
