Thursday, April 28, 2005

Henry Fletcher

I first ran across a story by artist/writer Henry Fletcher a couple of years ago in one of AC's reprint series. It featured a peculiarly effeminate "super wizard" named Stardust in the type of adventure that you expect an eight-year-old to have created. Fletcher's art had misproportioned figures and an oblivious lack of perspective that also seemed quite child-like. The whole story seemed like outsider comics, especially when I couldn't find any other information about him except that he also used the name Fletcher Hanks.

Now I found there's a webpage at http://www.lambiek.net/fletcher_henry.htm with very brief info (apparently Hanks was his real name) and better yet reproductions of three entire stories. According to Scott Saavedra there's a book about Fletcher in the works at Fantagraphics which would be an essential purchase.