To top off today’s Artist August, we bring you our requisite art feature.
Chip Zdarsky is about to meet a brand new audience when “Sex Criminals” drops a month from today (some of which can be seen here and here), but for many people I’d wager his work may be unfamiliar — and that’s a shame.
The first time I ever came across Zdarsky’s work was via Warren Ellis Dot Com, particularly the time he shared an excerpt from his upcoming autobiography, Are You There, God? It’s Me, Supergod. Offering up the 37th chapter of his book as an excerpt, entitled “Who Writes the Watchmen?”, Zdarsky told the story of how he was brought into DC Comics to pitch for “Watchmen 2” (this was when there were rumors about another “Watchmen” but nothing concrete), which featured Rory Shack and some of the funniest full-on butthole you’ll likely read about today.
From there I knew: this guy got my kind of funny.
So with “Sex Criminals” only a month away and two features on it on Multiversity today for you to read here and here (both of which are pretty darn good, if I do say so myself), now is the time to get caught up with the multitude of Zdarsky’s work done so far — a brief snippet you’ll find in this very post.
And, I suppose I should note that it is slightly NSFW — nothing egregious, but I saved the weirder stuff for the end. How could I not?
Some selections from his work at the National Post:
From Warren Ellis Dot Com:
And, just because you need nightmares:
