Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Black and White Wednesday: Dave Sim's Debut "The Cry of the White Wolf"

Yep, you read the headline right, Groove-ophiles! According to the splash page of "The Cry of the White Wolf" from Psycho #24 (cover dated March, 1975) Dave Sim, the creator of the legendary Cerebus the Aardvark, made his national writing debut under the editorship of "Archaic" Al Hewetson. I don't know who artist Stan Connerty is, but he sure had a cool art style. I think you're gonna dig this hard-to-find gem!
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  1. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2009 at 3:35 AM

    Wicked! I loved his Cerebus comic back in the day. I lost the thread though around the end of Church & State II.

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  2. pete doreeFebruary 25, 2009 at 8:04 AM

    Yeah, I think a lot of people lost it at that point. The first Cerebus ' phone book ' is the funniest comic ever, but after that, I kinda lost interest.
    But well done, Groovy, for finding that! I thought Sim's Star*Reach & Quack stuff was his first. Nice
    to see even earlier work.

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2009 at 3:15 PM

    Man, that art style looks _very_ familiar.

    Any chance that Stan Connerty is really Sanho Kim, operating under a pen name? Both names have an ess and kay sound ...

    Or am I just seeing things that aren't there?

    Scott Edelman
    http://scottedelman.livejournal.com/

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  4. The Groovy AgentFebruary 25, 2009 at 3:57 PM

    The inking style seems similar to Sanho Kim's, now that you mention it, Scott--the style the faces are drawn in look different, to me, though.

    I can't find much info on Sanho, and nothing on Connerty. Hmmmmmm...

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  5. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2009 at 4:13 PM

    You're correct that the faces aren't quite what we're used to with Kim, but the shading is so strikingly similar that I've taken a leap. Ignore the cheekbones, and it's dead on.

    Though I imagine a Stan Connerty expert will soon appear to prove me wrong!

    Scott Edelman
    http://scottedelman.livejournal.com/

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  6. The Groovy AgentFebruary 25, 2009 at 8:58 PM

    Or right! ;D

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  7. AnonymousFebruary 26, 2009 at 11:28 AM

    Hi from Spain! Under the name "Stan Connerty" was a spanish/catalonian artist, the late Ricard Castells. It seems that the pseudonym was a sort of imposition.

    Hi from Spain, and thanks for this great blog!

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  8. AnonymousFebruary 26, 2009 at 1:08 PM

    I'm so busted!

    And here he is:

    http://lambiek.net/artists/c/castells_ricard.htm

    Scott Edelman
    http://scottedelman.livejournal.com/

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  9. AnonymousFebruary 26, 2009 at 2:21 PM

    In the following elinks there's much more information about Castells/"Connerty". In spanish:

    http://www.tebeosfera.com/1/Autor/Dibujante/Castells/Ricard.htm

    ...and in english:
    http://lambiek.net/artists/c/castells_ricard.htm

    By the way, "The cry of the white wolf" was published in Spain in a b/w magazine titled "Dossier Negro" (Black Dossier is a literal translation). All the Skywald stuff appeared in that magazine.

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  10. The Groovy AgentFebruary 26, 2009 at 3:20 PM

    Thank you so much, Antonio! Groove-dom is gratified by your generous gift of geek-lore!

    Hey, Scott, at least you tumbled to the fact that Connerty was an alias!

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