![]() ![]() This book collects 15 of his best stories in one volume followed by an Afterword which solves the mystery of "Whatever Happened to Fletcher Hanks," the mysterious cartoonist who created a hailstorm of tales of brutal retribution. Karasik has also uncovered a dark secret: why Hanks disappeared from the comics scene. Cartoonist Paul Karasik (co-adapter of Paul Auster's City of Glass and co-author of The Ride Together, a Memoir of Autism in the Family) has spent years tracking down these obscure and hard to find stories buried in the back of long-forgotten comic book titles. I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets: The Comics of Fletcher Hanks (Fantagraphics: 2007). Fletcher Hanks worked in the earliest days of American comics, already aged over fifty, with his last. Hanks drew in a variety of genres depicting science-fiction saviors, white women of the jungle, and he-man loggers. I Shall Destroy all the Civilized Planets review. Because he worked in a gutter medium for second-rate publishers on third-rate characters his work has been largely forgotten. Fletcher Hanks worked for only a few years in the earliest days of the comic book industry (1939-1941). Welcome to the bizarre world of Fletcher Hanks, Super Wizard of the inkwell. ![]()
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