The Next Event Comic

[Alfonso Granito-Byrne]

Torris Tanbull dropped off the grid to teach art in Seattle for a minute, and the rumor has it that he flipped out a bit. He started producing underground greatness like SPONGEPLUNGER and PAM LAMB IS ON THE LAM, the latter mistaken for a children's book and ordered in large numbers as part of a No Child Left Behind reading initiative.

Given that Torris was actually producing these things on a hand-crank press in his basement, and probably also due to his rather severe crystal meth habit, the poor bastard broke his wrist trying to crank out (no pun intended) the 78,000 copies that he had already cashed the check for.

Of course, the PAM LAMB book is literally nothing but really violent, exquisitely-detailed barnyard porn from panel one to panel last, so the 1300 copies that actually saw print were promptly shredded, burnt, glued back together and shredded again. Luckily, Torris had already been institutionalized, which is probably the only thing that kept him from a lengthy prison sentence.

He's on MySpace.

By the way, I may have come on a little strong. I do enjoy some mainstream books. Sherm Farley's Frontier Dinocologist series is good, and I'm finding things to like about the current run of Furious Wanghammer.

(08-20-2011 10:51 AM)jordjevic Wrote:  

(08-20-2011 10:22 AM)TribeOne Wrote:  Their spin-off series are some of my favorite books of all time. Especially the ones Brick Hollandaise wrote during his seven year hunger strike.

I always found those to be a little preachy what with the trans-atlantic Soap Ship voyage (especially when they had to stop the pygmies from killing that village of wallet makers by holding a Goat Luau) , but the art definitely shined through. I even liked their back-up guy, Torris? Torris Tanbull? Was that the guy? I wonder what he's up to these days.