Dig that Rand Holmes
First, let me say how sorry I am to censor this fine art. Jobs will be saved! Just click on the pic to get the real goods. Rand Holmes is someone that I only learned about maybe half a year ago, but he’s got some really inspiring stuff.
On my Christmas visit to Vancouver I got to meet up with one of the guys I do work for and he was nice enough to not only introduce me to Holmes’ art, but give me a bunch of comics with his work! This issue I’m pretty sure must be some of his first printed work, but maybe I’m wrong.
Not only is Holmes a great Canadian artist, but he’s a hell of a writer! Baldric the Barbarian follows Baldric as he escapes the oppressive man-loving government, on the run for his perversive heterosexual way of life. Full of sex, drugs and barbarianism; Holmes puts it all together.
By Crom’s Great Bronzed Balls, indeed!!!
I plan on reading through all of Rand Holmes’ comics while commuting to work and back. I’ll add some more entries for the different stuff I have of his.
I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t know as much as I should about this man’s life and work, but I plan to find out more over the next few weeks. I really do dig his stuff though, it’s a real inspiration!
June 9th, 2008 at 11:43 am
This is masterful stuff!
June 10th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Yeah! This is just his earlier work too. I’m excited to get up his later stuff, mostly starring his character Harold Hedd.
June 12th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
I discovered Holmes in the SLOW DEATH anthology with his really amazing Wally Wood riffs. His later “groundlevel” HITLER’S COCAINE is quite good, also! Features Harold Hedd. Sad to hear he died awhile back.
June 12th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
I don’t have the Slow Death one you mentioned, but I do have Hitler’s Cocaine, some of Harold Hedd’s other adventures and a story he drew in Death Rattle.
It is really sad that he passed away a while ago. Some people I work with had the pleasure of hanging out with him. He sounded like a really great guy.
March 10th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
I recall reading about Baldric in summer camp around 1974 or 75, but it was in Hardass Comix Number 1 (the camp counselor was from St. Louis). the last page featured “Superduperman”, where the clark kent character , on his way to change clothes while someone threatens to jump from a high ledge, runs in the a phone booth (remember those?) and finds a “fuck mag”, which gives him time “to give old Opie a good thrashing.” the suicide leaps, and lands right on the phone booth, and superduperman staggers out saying “sometimes my own masculinity never ceases to amaze me.”
any idea where I can buy it? my best man tried to get it for me as a wedding present but that was before google I guess.