Hahaha! Ohmygod, I can't stop laughing at this!!!!
First of all, I should tell you, this picture is from a book that's an auto-biographical album of sorts put together by world-famous book designer, Chip Kidd. His work is pure genius and anyone who gets him to design for them is blessed. "What has this got to do with comics?" some of you may be asking. Well, Chip has been doing a bunch of work with DC Comics in the last couple years designing covers and layouts for books about their super-heroes. He did the covers and layouts for each of the trio of books written by Les Daniels about the history and cultural impact of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. With Art Spiegelman (Pulitzer author and artist of "Maus") he wrote and designed "Jack Cole and Plastic Man" (with a real plastic book cover!). He was also the man in charge of "Mythology: the DC Comics Art of Alex Ross," a beautifully photographed collection of Mr. Ross' artistic output towards my favorite super-heroes.
Well, this is all to say that Chip Kidd, through the nature of his work, has many varied connections. A couple years ago, he asked Daniel Clowes (one of my favorite all-time comics creators: writer and artist of independent comic "Eightball" and creator of "Ghostworld") to do a mock-up of "Bizarro Comics", a anthology book featuring stories written and drawn by "alternative," non-mainstream comics-people. Anyways, Dan Clowes put this cover together, but DC Comics ended up rejecting it! I've always wondered how DC Comics characters would look under the hand of Mr. Clowes, and now, years later, I finally get to see. Man, each panel is effing hilarious!!!!
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