There’s a graphic artist named Al Columbia. He did the creepy photos for the Postal Service album. He has published only a handful of printed work but his super-dark inky head-manglers are among my favourite ever strips. I’m extremely pleased to have found his first comic Doghead on eBay.
I discovered this Pim and Francie strip hidden away under broken links in a Seattle newspaper site. Maximise your browser, then check the full entry for the whole strip – enjoy.
05-Oct-05 at 9:23 pm | Permalink
There’s some interesting stuff about the Alan Moore series Big Numbers over here (more images here), with a scan from the Biologic Show. Awesome.
16-May-08 at 8:43 pm | Permalink
Fixed the links, now restored to glory.
10-Jul-08 at 10:51 pm | Permalink
Good news everyone! The comics-radio site Inkstuds posted a phone interview with Al Columbia himself talking about all kindsa stuff.
05-Dec-09 at 5:19 pm | Permalink
So I got the new Pim & Francie book from the nice folks at Fantagraphics (I’ve been there, and they actually are).
The ‘cooking’ strip is nicely reproduced in there, but the rest of the book is mostly fragments. The haunted forest stuff is in there but uncoloured and unfinished. Al a unique talent but evidently not great at finishing ideas?