If you're looking for the perfect reading material for this Halloween season, look no farther than the weird worlds created by the late Richard Sala. Sala passed away earlier this year, leaving behind decades of sui generis graphic novels that somehow manage to pull off the always difficult tightrope act of marrying the grotesque with the absurd. I recommend watching the following Sala retrospective produced by FOR THE LOVE OF COMICS this past May in the wake of the artist's unexpected death....
Note to my readers and to lovers of unusual comics in general: I hope to
finish up my web serial THE BLOODY CARDINAL 2 by the end of the year
(at the rate of a page or two (or 3) a week…. Psst! There's a new one
coming tomorrow). Then sometime next year (??) the story will be one of
four graphic novels in a hefty omnibus from Fantagraphics. -- So I have
been glancing back over my shoulder at The Bloody Cardinal book which came out in 2017 -- and while doing so I discovered a very
nice quote about it from a column on the 10 best comics of 2017 (on
which it was included). Of course I am much too humble to repost it
here…
Just kidding! -- how can I resist since the reviewer kindly name checks two of my paisanos!:
"Imagine Italo Calvino’s If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler (a
playfully self-reflective novel in which a pair of obsessed readers
explore the interdependence of art and reality) mixed with an Italian
giallo slasher film directed by Mario Bava, throw in a man dressed like a
big red bird and a cast of innocent young women in danger of being the
homicidal fowl’s next victims, and you won’t even come close to the
treasure trove of strangeness awaiting you in Richard Sala’s perversely
humorous graphic novel, The Bloody Cardinal."
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