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Hi all, Just got the files out to the printer for the collected ABRAXAS AND THE EARTHMAN from King Hell in September. The graphic novel was first serialized in EPIC Magazine way back in 1982 and this is the only complete version ever published.
Since I'm a self publisher, more than one person has assumed I'll be doing it in black and white, but that is not the case. The King Hell edition will be FULL COLOR, with a massive wraparound cover with 4" flaps. The good news is I've been able to oversee the scanning and adjustment, so this version of ABRAXAS will look like it was always meant to (rather than the murky mud of the EPIC scans).
Paneltopanel. net is offering a signed plate edition (at no extra cost). They've also posted an early review from my old saddle-pal Steve Bissette, which doeas a great job of putting the work into historical and cultural perspective. Check it out (and put in your order) right here.
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We've just posted an 8 page preview of ABRAXAS AND THE EARTHMAN on-line. You can read Chapter One: PRESS GANG, right here.
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I always wondered how it began. Can't wait to read the whole psychedelic book.
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I don't really remember this story, but the artwork you posted looks terrific. Sign me up. Can we order signed copies directly from you?
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Haven't checked this out yet, but the solicits I read have intrigued me. I will more than likely be picking this up soon after its publication. Thanks for taking the time to re-work older projects such as this, so that those who were too young to buy/appreciate the tales at the time are given a spectacular second chance.
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AAAUGH! That is so awesome!! I've been wanting a collected edition of Abraxas since 1984! (I'm assuming you've filled in that one erroneously empty dialog balloon for this release? Hee hee...
I remember asking you about the possibility of such a thing back in '97 when I ran into you at the San Diego Con! Better late than never! :)I'm SO glad it's going to be in color... BW would have been a hideous, horrible travesty...
And in September too! -It'll be a VERY nice 41st birthday present!
Thanks Rick!
Okay, gotta go, I've used up my allotment of exclamation points...
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I don't really remember this story, but the artwork you posted looks terrific. Sign me up. Can we order signed copies directly from you?
You can, but I recommend you order the signed, tipped in plate edition from PanelToPanel.net. They are set up to ship individual copies out and I think everything is discounted from the list price.
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quote:Originally posted by SwampMuck: Rick, Thanks for taking the time to re-work older projects such as this, so that those who were too young to buy/appreciate the tales at the time are given a spectacular second chance.
Heath P. Lail
I'm planning a companion volume to ABRAXAS that will collect all my EPIC short stories (including LOVE DOESN'T LAST FOREVER written by Alan Moore and MONKEY SEA which I did with Steve Bissette). Title will be SHINY BEASTS and I'm hoping for a spring 2007 release.
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Rick, will SHINY BEASTS include the short story "Cultz"? I seem to recall some legal problems with likenesses on that one.
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Geedis LI'L TINY COMICS, which ran in HEAVY METAL, will be included in SHINY BEASTS.
Melvin, KULTZ was by Steve Bissette and Steve Perry. Don't know about any legal trouble, but since I didn't work on it, it won't be in SHINY BEASTS.
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Really looking forward to a collection of your misc. stories from Epic, Mr. Veitch! Now if we could only see more MAXIMORTAL...
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I guess that's what happens when I rely on my less than perfect memory. I wish i still had all of my marbles.. Posts: 37 | From: Baltimore, Md | Registered: Sep 1999
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Hi all, Just got the advance copies of ABRAXAS from the printer and they came out perfect! The color is right on the money and the cover. with its four inch flaps, is a knock out.
I'm letting out that big breath I've been holding in since I sent in the files in July!
The shipment will be on the boat from Hong Kong in a few days and at Diamond by late September. As soon as I have the info I'll update on when to expect them in stores.
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Hey all, We did banner business debuting ABRAXAS at SPX last weekend. Sold out of every copy I brought, even a beat up one that a particularly desperate fan talked me into letting him buy (I gave him a discount).
Diamond got their palette on Monday and I hope will be shipping to stores this week.
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The print edition of PUBLISHERS WEEKLY has this review. Don't know if its available on-line anywhere.
Abraxas and the Earthman RICK VEITCH. King Hell (Diamond) Press, $16.95 paper (88p) ISBN 0-9624864-8-5 This first collected edition of the seminal graphic novel published in serial form during the early 1980’s brings a powerful psychedelic journey into print. Veitch (The Maximortal;, Can’t Get No) astounds with a heartfelt tale that is equal parts Herman Melville, consciousness expansion, environmental treatise, and gripping sci-fi adventure replete with space battles and all manner of exotic extraterrestrials cast members. The story follows cetologist John Isaac, who is shanghaied from a naval research mission and, along with the submarine’s commanding officer. The pair is thrust into the thick of mad Captain Rotwang’s interstellar vendetta against Abraxas, a space-faring crimson leviathan who cost the captain his leg and, arguably, much of his sanity. As both earthmen are put through horrific physical alterations, Isaac discovers to his shock—and dawning fascination—that he may be the nexus between humanity and a great cosmic truth of staggering proportions. A lush and thought-proving narrative is seamlessly expressed through a script that veers between extremes of wide-eyed wonder and outright horror. The febrile illustrations disgust—Isaac loses his skin early on—without losing the essential humanity of this powerful tale. (Nov.)
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Hey there readers. With midterms going full steam I haven't had time to update the blog, and after The Great Kate fixed the RSS feed no less. I've decided to republish a review I did in 2004 of Rick Veitch's Abraxas the Earthman because it was released in trade paperback yesterday from Veitch's King Hell Press. You can read an eight page preview here. I think Veitch is as underrated as he is creative and I'm glad to see his creator-owned work as well as his Swamp Thing comics be available once more. Enjoy this review, I hope it gets you to check out this book. (As an aside I wonder if it would be worthwhile to take a look at the writers like Veitch, J.M. DeMatteis, Steve Gerber and others who created works that had spiritual and creative outlooks that would see success with the British Vertigo writers. "Fathers of Vertigo?" I don't know just thinking out loud) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Today let's look at the Abraxas and the Earthman serial that appeared in Epic Illustrated. It's one of the best works by one of my favorite comic book artists, Rick Veitch. The skeleton of the story is an interpretation of Melville's Moby Dick. It concerns a Captain Rotwang's mad obsession over hunting a whale, the Abraxas of the title. It just happens that Rotwang is just one of the many weird alien creatures that populate the book and Abraxas is just one of the many flying space whales that hover over the planet the book takes place on. Rotwang is just one part of the story. The main character of the book is one of the two earthmen abducted by Rotwang, John Isaac. It seems Isaac has had all his skin removed by Xlexu Surgeons, giant and super-smart praying mantises, so that it can be replaced by an invisible aura that will help Rotwang catch Abraxas. The other earthman is the captain of the submarine scientist Isaac was on, Falco. He gets decapitated so his body can mechanically load coal into the ship's engine. His head is still around and sentient but it spends most of its time getting thrown around. All this plus a sphinx woman and giant shmoo-like groupies. This serial certainly feels like Veitch is pulling out every last piece of his imagination into it. It's what makes it one of his best works. It's Veitch's celebration of his own grotesque creations that remains the most memorable part of the book. I have always felt that Veitch's artwork has on off-kilter feel to it. It often times looks like one part Jack Kirby and one part Tijuana Bible. It might be a turn-off to some but since Veitch's work like this, Brat Pack and The One seem to work well with his weird style I've enjoyed it. Abraxas, with its protagonist that has no skin and aliens that are weirder than the next, takes the most advantage of this bizarre style. This mix of the gross and the psychedelic benefits what this story gets at. Isaac refuses to go along with Rotwang's plan to slaughter whales and instead uses his heightened sense of aura to become one with Abraxas and soon the entire universe. It's that mysticism that ultimately defines Abraxas. Captain Rotwang is the Ahab whose mania over this whale drives other to around him to their death and himself into further insanity. It is because of the Xlexu Surgeon's modifications to him that Isaac sees a way out of the simple world of Rotwang's (and the military man Falco's). Rotwang lives a life that is defined by opposing or dominating one thing or another be those things hunting whales or commanding men. It's view of life that man in the world, certainly the Western world, subscribes to. Isaac can now see a way out of a life of constant conflict because he is now in touch with the pain of Abraxas and the other whales Rotwang hunts down. Abraxas and the Earthmen, like Veitch's Cold War story The One, is about finding a better way out of the us v. them or left v. right dichotomy. It doesn't take the stand that Isaac and others should go up against Rotwang. If that would happen then they would all be part of the same vicious cycle of aggression. "To fight the empire is to be infected by its derangement" as old Phil Dick would have us know. It seems clear that Veitch would agree with this. Even though Veitch owns Abraxas there doesn't seem to be any plans to reprint it in trade paperback form. You can hunt down the issues of Epic Illustrated it appeared in (10 through 17) or see if you can download it through Bit Torrent. It's worth the hunt as it is like few other stories you will read.
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Can't get the link to work at Progressive Ruin:
FAVORITE BOOK OF THE WEEK: the Abraxas and the Earthman trade paperback by Rick Veitch. I have been waiting for a collection of this series for twenty years, since reading it in serialized form way back when in Epic Illustrated. It's weird, it's touching, it's grotesque, it's beautiful, it's funny, it's horrifying, it's disgusting, it's spiritual, but mostly it's just wonderous. And odd. And...ah, hell, it's just great. It's the comic that made me a lifelong fan of Veitch, guaranteeing that I'll always check out anything he has a hand in. I'm terrible at giving any kind of insightful review, but let me point you to this preview of the first chapter</a>, as well as to pal Ian's old review(which, when it was written, no collection was in the works, so Ian suggests using Bittorrent...don't do it, you cheap bastards, it's only $16.95).
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I just emailed Rick but in case anyone here is wondering, it is indeed a very nice book. The flaps give it a very nice feel and the color did come out great.
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RICK VEITCH Veitch was a joy to speak with and he had copies of his King Hell works for fans to purchase and have autographed. BRAT PACK, THE MAXIMORTAL - two incredible books that are essential not only to fans of comics, but fans of comic history as well - and ABRAXAS AND THE EARTHMAN, a collection of the Epic magazine serial from the early 1980s, were all available. With ABRAXAS, Veitch re-painted all of the artwork, touching it up for a new audience and the result was amazing. His panel layouts and coloring are always a wonder to behold and these stories stand up as well today as they ever did. He also said that in April a second collection, bringing together all of the short stories he did for Epic, would be shipping to comic shops and bookstores. And of course, one doesn’t speak with Rick Veitch without bringing up his work on Swamp Thing. Veitch said that he has been happy with the collections from Vertigo so far, lauding them for their attention to detail in cleaning up the art and making it accessible for a newer generation. However, he did say not to expect the elusive SWAMP THING #88 to see print in any of the collections. He was obviously quite bothered by this but said that it was best not to think about it as it just upset him.
(Note: Chris misunderstood me when I talked about "remastering" the color. I didn't repaint anything. Just rescanned and tweaked in Photoshop.)
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Dave Sim discusses ABRAXAS over on his daily BlogandMail.
Coincidentally, the next package contains Rick Veitch's Abraxas and the Earthman (evidently the precursor to the above-mentioned Can't Get No) which was originally serialized in Epic Magazine twenty-five years ago—two copies, one for me and one for Ger from the Veitchmonster his own self. It certainly reflects an enormous amount of Photoshop work: much of it (and the best of it) reminiscent of and measuring up to Richard Corben's pioneering airbrush effects (some of which were actually done with colour and some of which were—talk about mind-boggling—painstakingly hand- separated using gray airbrush to build up each value of yellow red and blue on overlays). There is a certain amount of residual flat colour and opaque paint from Abraxas' first go-round but Rick takes full advantage of modern technology in devoting his energies to getting the look of virtually everything microscopically right. He's certainly exploring new areas of proportion that have been previously unexplored, witness the cover with the reduced inset image of the flying insect and the earthman contrasting with the form of Abraxas. I suspect Rick must have been "re-mastering" this for months if not years. It's too far over in the Absolute Fantasy/Science Fiction realm of things for my personal tastes—the reason that Moby Dick (which Rick mutates into a science fiction story) works, for me, is in large part attributable to the size of the book so that Melville's stirring prose can lay the groundwork for the enormity of the final confrontation by grounding everything in a fully developed history of whaling, whaling communities and shipboard travel. Here, instead, we have a multi-hued kaleidoscope pastiche of a protagonist literally stripped of his skin, a second protagonist who is a severed head, universe spanning whales, a whale planet, a sphinx that emerges out of nowhere and a strange Art Suydam influenced mÈnage a trois between two horny female Schmoos and…uh…Well, there were moments when I thought, "How many pages would it take to make this plausible?" How many pages would it take to convey the enormity of everything being presented (and make no mistake, everything in Abraxas and the Earthman is enormous)? How big a picture would you need of Abraxas, The Great Red Whale and how far along into the proceedings would it need to appear to measure up to the laborious groundwork that set the stage for the appearance of The Great White Whale in Moby Dick? And then how would you either sustain that size or revisit it often enough from there on to maintain The Great Red Whale's core pre-eminence in the story? I had a headache by the end of the forty minutes it took me to read it which, I would be willing to bet was probably just the 50-year old equivalent of having my mind blown which is really something better suited to 20- and 30-year old minds (like the one that Rick Veitch's was when he created Abraxas and the Earthman at the age of 30) since twenty minutes later and my headache, she was gone. Within its limited frame of reference of roughly a hundred pages and with the implied limitations of the eight-to-ten or so pages of the original segments and all of the microscopic detail enhancement, it's certainly worth every penny of the $16.95 cover price. As Rick wrote on the title page of my copy: "To Dave – Took me twenty-five years but I finally got the sucker right." It's no small point, considering especially the limited palette of colour options he had at the time of the story's creation: Dr. Martin dyes, a certain amount of airbrushing and collage (now mercifully replaced with less jarringly invasive effects), coloured pencils, and that was about it. White paint never quite reproduces as white but with the miracle of Photoshop it can and does here. Every page just screams "Here, this is what I was TRYING to do back in 1981. This is what it was SUPPOSED to look like." Epic Magazine had state-of-the-art big budget colour reproduction for its day, but this just goes to show how limited that reproduction was and what a revolution in printing we're experiencing these days. Rick's certainly has his ups and downs in the comic-book field but I would guess that posterity will be inclined to treat him favourably because he has maintained a very coherent forward momentum in establishing a body of work with his Heroica Trilogy and his Dream Comics as well as being productive in the "meat and potatoes" freelancing end of things. Like Jimmy Gownley with his metaphorical block of concrete, Rick is just someone who isn't going to take maybe for an answer. As with Richard Corben, I sincerely hope that all is well "behind the scenes" and—as with Richard Corben—I can't imagine that anything could get in Rick's way any other way but temporarily. Who else would even consider painstakingly recreating enhancing and adding nuances to a twenty-five year old work micro-inch by micro-inch in Photoshop? Can't think of too many off the top of my head. There's also an Al Williamson inked pin-up that is, speaking as a terminal Williamson junkie, to die for. And he dedicated the book "to Archie" which I will certainly do, as well, if the proposed Cerebus colour volume ever happens. We're both Epic graduates. Hard to believe that was a quarter century ago, but there it is. No wonder I just get a headache these days when someone tries to blow my mind.
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Abraxas and The Earth Man: Rick Veitch can take his metaphysical concerns and weave a story that doesn't either bore me or insult my intelligence; damn fine artist, too.
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I would call Abraxas one of the most satisfying reads I've had all year. Thanks for bringing it back, Rick!
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I dont have words to say about this,is giga-fucking awsome!!!and I also dont have all the amount of words to describe this because my english is not so good .D
it is like moby dick meets sectaurs!!!
I really love it,it was worth to pay it here in argentina 60 pesos...
I hope the edition of shiny beasts is like this one!!
saludos...
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Steve Bunche over at the Vault of Buncheness has this to say about ABRAXAS:
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
GIANT-SIZE MANDINGO: ABRAXAS AND THE EARTHMAN
Rick Veitch has been one of my favorite creators of comics for nearly three decades, his work being flavored with a heavy duty psychedelic edge simultaneously lysergically wondrous and scary as a motherfucker, a storytelling style born out of the underground spirit and visceral kick in the balls of that genre, only without the frequently incoherent vulgarity found therein. His stories explore humanity on many levels, often presenting challenging observations tarted up in the drag of the fantastic to make his messages that much more vivid, each a visual and intellectual feast that is truly epic in the truest sense of the term, and no work of his exemplifies that better than the stunning ABRAXAS AND THE EARTHMAN, now finally available in a beautiful trade paperback. I would have preferred a hardcover, but fuck it, I'll take what I can get!
This collected edition of the seminal graphic novel/ psychedelic journey first seen in serial form during the early 1980’s in Marvel Comics' EPIC ILLUSTRATED magazine is a welcome change from standard comics fare. Veitch (THE MAXIMORTAL, BRAT PACK, RARE BIT FIENDS) astounds the reader with a heartfelt tale that is equal parts Herman Melville, consciousness expansion, environmental treatise, and gripping sci-fi adventure replete with space battles and all manner of exotic extraterrestrial cast members.
Cetologist John Isaac is shanghaied from a naval research mission and, along with the submarine’s commanding officer, is thrust into the thick of mad Captain Rotwang’s interstellar vendetta against Abraxas, a spacefaring crimson leviathan who cost the captain his leg and, arguably, much of his sanity. As both earthmen are put through horrific physical alterations, Issac discovers to his shock — and dawning fascination — that he may be the nexus between humankind and a great cosmic truth of staggering proportions.
A lush and thought-proving narrative seamlessly expressed through a script that veers between extremes of wide-eyed wonder and outright horror, coupled with illustrations that verge on the palpable, this volume could not come more highly recommended. Comics seldom get this good, and if you don't like what sometimes comes off as hippy-dippy self-indulgence, get over it. Veitch may have gone on to what some would call bigger and better works, but the fucksticks who think that can kiss my big beige ass; ABRAXAS AND THE EARTHMAN is Veitch's masterpiece, and I would give my left arm to see a lovingly faithful big screen adaptation while out of my mind on a Ziploc bag full or righteous trip-fungus.
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House of L has named ABRAXAS the "Most Mental Book of the Year".
Most Mental Book of the Year: Abraxas and the Earthman, by Rick Veitch. I don't know if it's possible for mushrooms to drop acid, but if it were, this book is what it would be like if a peyote cactus ate those mushrooms and washed them down with a large bottle of Robotussin. Better than Star Trek IV!
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Rick: I have a question for you regarding Abraxas and the Earthman. And forgive me if this is the millionth time you've been asked this....
On an episode of The Simpsons, there's a segment with Itchy & Scratchy where the cat (forget his name) looses his skin on an esclator. He then ties his hide around his neck in a way very similar to Isaac. Do you know if this was a deliberate homage to Abraxas and the Earthman? Did any of the writers from The Simpsons contact you about using this concept? It seems just too precise an image to be a coincidence.
By the way, I definitely plan to buy this when I get some extra cash. I can remember a buddy bringing an issue of Epic to art class when I was in High School. I was blown away by the image of this skinless guy running around with his flesh tied around his neck like a yuppie's sweater. Very trippy stuff! And great artwork!
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Hi Will, I never heard of this Simpsons episode before. I'm going to image google and see if I can turn up anything.
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