The Seduction of Mike: One Man's Life in 60 Years of Comic Books

by Robert Sikoryak, Michael Smith

Clever illustrated parody of comic book history with Mike as a Forrest Gump-like character.

Genres: Fiction, Comics, Humor, Graphic Novels

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Robert Sikoryak (born 1964) is an American artist whose work is usually signed R. Sikoryak. He specializes in making comic adaptations of literature classics, producing a mashup of high culture and low culture. Under the series title Masterpiece Comics, these include Crime and Punishment rendered in Bob Kane–era Batman style, becoming Dostoyevsky Comics, starring Raskol; and Waiting for Godot mixed with Beavis and Butt-Head, becoming Waiting to Go.

Reviews

[David Macpherson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sikoryak showed where he was going with this work. You can see the spark for his more recent work where he uses images from comic history. This one is about a regular guy who was the background -dogsbody of other cartoon characters. It is not as brilliant as his more recent work, but I still love what Sikoryak does.

[James Payne · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really enjoy R. Sikoryak's other work. This, however, was unbearable.