To the general public, "Howard The Duck" is, if anything, a punchline to a joke, a universally-reviled bad movie. A flop.
But to comics fans, Howard The Duck was an anarchic, game-changing character, and a symbol of the fight for creators' rights.
Howard's creator, Steve Gerber, died this weekend.
Here's a link to an excellent overview of Steve's career by Tom Spurgeon (which is where I grabbed the above image, though I have mine in a drawer somewhere, I'm sure.)
Wednesday update
Just discovered this image and the story behind it. Yow! Links to follow, later.
Richard,
ReplyDeleteI hate that it took this for me to fall across your name...but it's also this that makes a person want to reconnect with friends from yesteryear. Hope all's well with you; drop me a line when you get a chance: pkupps@optonline.net.
Paul Kupperberg