Meatmen Vol 22 Author:Winston Leyland (Editor) Winston Leyland's MEATMEN books each contain a widely varied mix of styles among their contributors. With 160 pages on good paper with slick covers, they're a sizeable package (to borrow a turn of phrase). Amateurish below-fanzine-level hackwork is presented side-by-side with stunning, exceptionally high-quality art, and this may turn of... more »f some potential paying customers.
Highlights of VOL.22 include: "Bike Boy" by Zack, very European-in-style art; "Coley On The Lost Coast" by John Blackburn, one of the nicest and hottest Coley short stories to appear in MEATMEN (Blackburn has appeared in every collection from #13-up, often contributing the best work in each book); cartoons by Gerard Donelan (cute and funny, another "regular" in this series); and "Straight Man's Burden" by Kurt Erichsen (very entertaining with a cartoon style reminiscent of Phil Foglio's).« less