Steve Mellor replies:
I can't believe someone found Rock Lobster! I haven't seen it in years and have so far been unable to find where I stored the original pages.It was done back in the days of zipatone which in this digital age I don't think you can buy anymore. The all bold face word balloons crack me up. I guess I was saying that the comic was meant to be read LOUD! I remember that right after it was published I wanted to redo a couple of panels and basically the whole final page but now I'm not so sure about that. All those background funny animal girls are so 80's. Thanks for putting it out there. Steve Mellor
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Cartoony goodness.
solid style... pretty chewy/ trippy
It might not have been intentional on Steve's part, but the last panel of Rock Lobster floating in the hot tub is almost an exact recreation of the opening shot of "Sunset Boulevard" which has William Holden floating face down dead in a pool.
Steve, I love this comic, it looks incredible. I love the 2 string guitar, all the trash laying about in the panels (spoons, syringes, etc.), the lobster trap jail cell gag, the last panel on pg 6 with Astro Boy, Godzilla, the walking chainsaw, etc. is awesome, and the first panel of pg 7 where RL opens the door to his place with his shadow on the door. It would be cool to see this redone in color!
Steve Mellor is amazing and multi-talented as well as being an all around swell guy. If you ever get a chance to catch him acting don't pass it up. I wish we had more of his work to eyeball.
I think Rock Lobster ties with Goose Rider as my favorite.
I think the only story I haven't posted yet is one from Spider Ham that was inked by Vince Colletta.
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The Sunset Boulevard panel was intentional. Bob Camp helped come up up with the shape of the guitar. As far as the trash ( and everything else in the strip), I basically threw in all the things I liked to draw at that time. The cop vehicle I designed for the strip, and now the police are driving a three wheeled thingy that looks much the same as mine around the New York subway, so I guess I am a visionary! I think the floating human head at the end had something to do with the spokes-character for the magazine. I would love to try and work up a color version someday. Vincent Waller is actually the real amazing, multi-talented swell guy. The "cartoon loft" on Warren Street across from the Racoon Lodge should have its own page in the history of cartooning in NYC in the eighties. I think the piece or pieces Vince Colletta inked were written and pencilled by my brother Mike and are very funny. Marvel just published a nice looking digest collection of the first five Spider Hams (which I only found out about after the fact by seeing them on the shelf at a comic book store) and I'm hoping they continue to reprint the rest of the series which had more of my brother's and my stuff (even if we don't see a dime out of it). I have at least a dozen pages of funny animal versions of Marvel characters for the Spider Ham comic (like the page posted on Cartoon Retro) that never saw the light of day after the book was cancelled. Thanks again for all the nice comments! Steve Mellor
AMAZING!!! What magazine was this from? Year? Month? I'd love to hunt down a copy.
OMG! OMG! I cant believe how awesome this is!! THANKS A LOT FOR POSTING THIS!!!
What year is that comic? It's great looking.
MY totally uninformed guess is 1990??
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