Mutant Mail-Box

Published on by Charlie Boatner.

 
 

I received an nice comment here last month from an old friend:

"I have been enjoying Charlie's humor for over a half century now; his current series (Bureau of Beasties) adds bureaucratic (both corporate and government) humor to his usual spoofing of super hero comics as well as honoring comics (both strips and books) of the past. I am glad that he keeps doing this as we all need a light break from reality to maintain our sanity (or, in my case, what is left of it)."

Back in High School, Mark and I collaborated on zines parodying the X-Men. Those were good times. When designing the character visuals, I used some stock characters that you can see I'm still using today. The Marvel Girl parody was the first appearance of the "cartoony young woman" design behind Mermsy.

These are new drawings because the zines were printed on spirit duplicator and might not digitize well. Pictured: the GP-Men: Professor Xorn, the Eldil, Beste, Mr. Frosty, and Baffle Girl. (Four Eyes not shown.)