Go, Read: Artist Tony Fitzpatrick On Superheroes

The Chicago-based artist, actor, printmaker and writer Tony Fitzpatrick uses the unveiling of his "Bazooka Hulk" to muse for several paragraphs on the superhero more generally. One of the great things about comics being pushed into something resembling the cultural foreground is that you have people weighing in on them beyond the hardcore people head-over-heels invested in the full flush of their present. The perspective brought by a Fitzpatrick or a Ta-Nehisi Coates isn't less valuable for being based on a now-past, intense relationship with the medium; I think those kinds of perspectives can add a great deal to the general discussion. When Fitzpatrick says of his own comics-reading past, "I spent every dime I had as a kid on comic books; I read the Sunday Comics and I worshipped MAD Magazine as well. This was the world my parents were not privy to and did not understand; the comics were where I went to be left the fuck alone," it's hard not to immediately relate even if you're still hanging in there every Wednesday.
 
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