It’s actually an update of the original cover painting I did back in
’94, which was taken from a sequence where our hero-Mortimer-references a
dream he’s had where all the babies have been born with a congenital
absence of eyelids. Its a really short passage, but at the time I think I
felt it was symbolic of this internal life, a sensory inflection where
the only point of reference is the womb. I was probably also thinking of that razor meets eyeball scene in Buñuel’s Un ChienAndalou, but here its a surgeons scalpel about to shock the little tot into what amounts to a kind of rebirth.
At the time, Fantaco-the company that originally solicited the
series-were so concerned by the image, the editor called me to ask if I
could change it to something more “T & A” such were the times then. I
wouldn’t, they cancelled the series, and the rest is 25 years of
forgotten history.
It’s up and available in my store for purchase along with the 25th Anniversary edition. BABY BLIND
Here it is at long last then, unfinished business, a monkey on my back, 25 years in the making.
I even knocked a special little trailer together, in the vintage
style of all those late night thrillers from the period 1979. Such were
my ambitions back in the days of 1995, I envisioned David Croneberg
would direct if it had been optioned to film, and Gary Oldman would have
played the old pathological pathologist, Sue Johnson his wife Joan, and Nicole Kidman the luscious visage of Lucinda.
While
we can dream what that might have looked like, here’s the completed
graphic novel, cleaned up,completely re lettered digitally, and
available for the very first time, in its 86 page glory.
