Some people are “old souls.” We’ve all encountered them, folks with an acute attraction and intuitive knowledge of a lifestyle or practice an earlier time. Their predisposition is an innate one that inspires theories of reincarnation.
Musicians, artists, engineers, scientists, architects and fashion designers top off a long list of vocations that are often peppered with these harbingers of the past that introduce new generations to nuances of a medium or a field that have lost or under appreciated over time.
One glance at the newest feature presented here at CO2 Comics will immediately drag you back to a bygone era of Golden Age comics.
Eaten by Planet 29
Kevin Atkinson’s EATEN BY PLANET 29 is so steeped in idioms of the most classic form of comics that one can’t help but begin to savor an imagined misty smell of newsprint conjured by the images pixelated by current technology on the computer screen.
Rogue Satellite Comics
Kevin’s greatest influences, Will Eisner and Robert Crumb are legendary in comics. His admiration for them and many other great masters of the field shines through his work from the lettering to the panel layouts, evidence of his education at Joe Kubert’s School of Comic Art.
A Texan background insures that Kevin’s characters are bigger than life, with exaggerated features and actions. His stories are fun and weird. All ingredients that make comics as a medium work best.
Kevin has been busy since he left Joe Kubert’s school in 1988, published by BOOM Studios, Caliber Press, Eureka Productions, Kitchen Sink Press, NBM Publishing, New England Comics, Patchwork Press, Platinum Studios, Rip Off Press, & Slave Labor Graphics.
Snarl, Rogue Satellite and The Tick
A comprehensive list of Kevin’s impressive credits can be seen on his Myspace page www.myspace.com/zackgolem.
CO2 Comics is proud to present his latest work EATEN BY PLANET 29. We hope our readers enjoy it as much as we enjoy bringing it to you.
