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Paul Karasik on His Forthcoming Signing Schedule (PR)
posted July 8, 2007
 

Paul Karasik will be speaking and signing copies of, I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets: The Comics of Fletcher Hanks:

West Tisbury Library, West Tisbury, MA., July 16, 6:30
Comic Con International, San Diego, CA. July 26, 3:00
Politics and Prose, Washington, D.C., August 2, 7:00
Bunch of Grapes, Martha's Vineyard, August 3, 7:30
Small Press Expo, Bethesda, MD., October 12-13

Fletcher Hank: The Ed Wood of Comics? -- Welcome to the bizarre world of Fletcher Hanks, Super Wizard of the inkwell. Hanks worked for only three years in the earliest days of the comic book industry and then ... disappeared. Genius? Nutcase? Visonary? All of the above?

Cartoonist Paul Karasik (co-adapter of Paul Auster's City of Glass), has spent years tracking down these obscure buried stories and collected them in, I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets: The Comics of Fletcher Hanks. But he saved one of the weirdest to present at these lectures.

Hanks is the greatest Golden Age cartoonist that you never heard of... until now.