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The Zaucer of Zilk #1
Get Zaucy! IDW is proud to announce this special collaboration with 2000 AD and Rebellion Publishing, The Zaucer of Zilk, Brendan McCarthy & Al Ewing's phantasmagorical psychedelic extravaganza from beyond the fringes of imagination! This special 2-issue adventure features an inter-dimensional magician who travels across the realms to save his number-one fan from the dank clutches of arch-nemesis Errol Raine, as visualized by the brilliantly surreal artist McCarthy!
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First published March 27, 2013
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August 11, 2016
PSYCHEDELIC ROLLERCOASTER ACTIVATE!
The Zaucer of Zilk is eternally young, magical and full of verve and bravado, snide and cocksure but a good guy all the same. his enemy, master of rain and despair, has spirited his number one fan off into a dimension of misery. and back home in Zilk, the realm's ill-tempered ruler has imprisoned his faithful companions. what's The Zaucer to do? why, put on his fancy traveling pants and bust through the dimensions of time and space to get it all sorted out, of course. go, Zaucer, go!
Brendan McCarthy is a mad genius. his pop art style is like a classic 60s psychedelic poster, crazy throbbing colors that jump off of the paper. an intensely vibrant palette that is the perfect eye candy if you want to be on acid but are getting a bit too old for that sort of stuff (sad sigh). if you want to experience how creative the comic medium can get, this one - with its eye-popping 'digidelic sheen' (McCarthy's phrase, not mine) - is a great place to start. I'm a big fan of the artist - and McCarthy came up with the basic story as well - but the writing is good too. I'm not familiar with Al Ewing but he captures the zippy, near-nonsensical tone perfectly. and he's quite witty.
the story itself is about celebrity and growing up. it is clever and funny and surprisingly moving. I read this when I was already feeling happy and it made me feel even happier.
I love what Mccarthy has to say about how he conceived this comic, so I'll just quote him:
The Zaucer of Zilk is eternally young, magical and full of verve and bravado, snide and cocksure but a good guy all the same. his enemy, master of rain and despair, has spirited his number one fan off into a dimension of misery. and back home in Zilk, the realm's ill-tempered ruler has imprisoned his faithful companions. what's The Zaucer to do? why, put on his fancy traveling pants and bust through the dimensions of time and space to get it all sorted out, of course. go, Zaucer, go!
Brendan McCarthy is a mad genius. his pop art style is like a classic 60s psychedelic poster, crazy throbbing colors that jump off of the paper. an intensely vibrant palette that is the perfect eye candy if you want to be on acid but are getting a bit too old for that sort of stuff (sad sigh). if you want to experience how creative the comic medium can get, this one - with its eye-popping 'digidelic sheen' (McCarthy's phrase, not mine) - is a great place to start. I'm a big fan of the artist - and McCarthy came up with the basic story as well - but the writing is good too. I'm not familiar with Al Ewing but he captures the zippy, near-nonsensical tone perfectly. and he's quite witty.
the story itself is about celebrity and growing up. it is clever and funny and surprisingly moving. I read this when I was already feeling happy and it made me feel even happier.
I love what Mccarthy has to say about how he conceived this comic, so I'll just quote him:
"I see the digital in comics in the same way I see electronic in music: it evokes a certain flavor that more traditional methods can't create: Emotion placed on a bed of artifice... Anything to get away from that ubiquitous 'comics as film' style the industry seems to have settled into recently... This isn't really a 'graphic novel'. Perhaps you could see it as structured like a piece of visual music..."
December 25, 2016
beautiful Peter Max style artwork w/a late 60s/early 70s vibe.
February 12, 2017
I like McCarthy's wacky, freewheeling style, but neither his writing nor his art are at their best here. Random and half-baked.
July 27, 2014
More, please. First thing I read from either creator and I must seek out their other collaborations. Excellent art, particularly the coloring. When the story is bright, it's psychedelic, and when things aren't so bright, it's perfect gloom and doom. The story itself is very funny, bizarre and complicated - everything I like, personally. I don't want to spoil it though, the less you know the better. It costs $4 to get the whole thing on Comixology. Get it now, and read it yourself. Recommended particularly for fans of Grant Morrison's surreal works, especially Flex Mentallo, but really recommended to comics fans period.
October 10, 2014
Loved the graphics and the randomness
January 30, 2015
Hahaha I loved this book! Very imaginative, reminded me of Yellow Submarine or the Imaginaerium of Dr.Parnassus. It needs it's own soundtrack!
June 13, 2015
Surreal cubed.
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