ZOMOID ILLUSTORIES Vol. 3 #7

ZOMOID ILLUSTORIES Vol. 3 #7

8-page mini-comix on lime green paper
A Ray Zone Prod.
Published July 1985
By: Michael Roden
Copyright © 1985
Ltd. Ed. of 100 Copies
75 cents

This cool little collection of MICHAEL RODEN illustrations was published by 3-D master RAY ZONE (who presented a Crazy Men Slide Show at the 1985 San Diego Comics Con). Specific contents:

cover untitled drawing of a Crazy Man

page 2 untitled collage [The Abduction]

page 3 untitled drawing of a Crazy man Würm (!)

pages 4-5 surrealistic untitled collage

page 6 untitled collage-drawing of a Crazy Man god

page 7 untitled collage-drawing [The Hanged Man]

page 8 untitled drawing (in collaboration with BOB X) (T.B.H.C. Sea Dog)

You’ll find the Crazy men infiltrating a lot of my artwork. They’re part of a new era, using much less collage. Not that I have any regrets about using montage in my comix. It’s just a new era for me. I used to want an enigmatic feel from my comix. Now it’s more cartoony but still with a surrealistic feel. Ray Zone calls it Americana Grotesque.
MICHAEL RODEN: letter to DLC dated 7/27/85

Anyone interested in cool art will definitely want to look into the ZOMOID series. You’ll find lots of incredible art by such underground luminaries as GARY PANTER and ROBERT WILLIAMS and many more.

Resource Notes:
Publication information and inside scoop on the Crazy Men Slide Show per MICHAEL RODEN: letter to DLC dated 7/20/85.
Thanks to RAY ZONE for providing copies of this and other great ZOMOID titles.

History:
This page originally published in THE DALE LEE PLANET MICHAEL RODEN CATALOG: VOLUME 1. MINI-COMIX Version 1.0 (page 35) on 3-31-01.
Page revised and posted to the online MICHAEL RODEN CATALOG 11-13-03.