DOPE RIDER A FISTFUL OF DELIRIUM: A Fistful of Delirium (English Edition)

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He has published five books with Paladin Press: The Deadliest Men, Dueling With the Sword and Pistol, Jim Cirillo's Tales of the Stakeout Squad, More of the Deadliest Men Who Ever Lived, and Bowie Knife Fights, Fighters, and Fighting Techniques. In the mid-1970s, Kirchner wrote and illustrated the surrealistic comic strip Dope Rider for High Times. Shedding – Anastasia Hiorns’ Abstract Comics Don’t So Much Communicate a Narrative as Provide a Catalyst for One

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I was asked to design a tattoo by a cinematographer in LA. He wanted to base it on an old frame in which Dope Rider is holding a heavy machine gun and replace the gun with a Panavision movie camera. The line on the tattoo would be "Cinema is Dead, Long Live the Cinema!" in French.Kirchner was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He attended Cooper Union School of Art but left in his third year, when, with the help of Larry Hama and Neal Adams, he began to get work in the comic book industry. [1] Career [ edit ] Comics [ edit ] Paul Kirchner's Shaman, from Heavy Metal In December 1973, Ralph Reese introduced Kirchner to Wally Wood, for whom he worked as assistant for several years. Tanibis has now published Awaiting the Collapse: Selected Works 1974-2014, a gorgeous compendium of some of Kirchner's finest work over the past four decades. Many of Kirchner's Dope Rider strips are here, along with a handful of his covers for Screw, as well as miscellaneous comics in different genres. Despite the range of years and variety in genres here, Kirchner's surrealist spirit dominates. His comics poke at the weird worlds that vibrate beneath the surface of our own routine reality, offering new ways of seeing old things, to see the real as surreal. Murder by Remote Control with Janwillem van de Wetering (Ballantine, 1986, Dover, 2016 (reissue ed.)) Dope Rider: A Fistful of Delirium – An Enticing Doorway into the Spellbinding, Hallucinogenic Unreality of Paul Kirchner

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Forgotten Fads and Fabulous Flops: An Amazing Collection of Goofy Stuff That Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time (Rhino, 1995) Dope Rider is a delightful blend of gritty sludge and kaleidoscopic psychedelia from one of the most integral cogs in the Steel City’s doom inner circle." - Astral Noize Kirchner eschews any narrative or character development that isn’t in service to a bit or a gag and the bits and gigs are in service to visual inventiveness and his exploration of surrealism, perspective, and his breaking the confines of the medium. Rendered in Kirchner’s confident hand, the strip reads as natural and understated, no matter how out there it gets. In working in such a limited space, Kirchner’s work in Dope Rider feels all the more outsize. (…)» From 1996 to 2002, Kirchner held the post of senior art director at Jordan, McGrath, Case & Taylor (later Arnold New York). Kirchner and his creative partner, writer Andrew Cahill, created a campaign for Zest body wash featuring football's Craig "Ironhead" Heyward. [5]

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An unstoppable force fuelled by your favourite nightmares, inching closer and closer, each chug equalling the energy needed to fuel a small star, just when you think you're safe you wake up, to see you're already looking down the barrel of the gun. Softie 'Ironhead,' soap ad come away clean winners" by Heather Burns ( USA Today, December 16, 1997, Sports section, p.1)

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The same year “Dope Rider” found its way to High Times, where it reached its largest audience and also used color images for the first time, which certainly improved its impact on the magazine’s baked readers.

He illustrated Col. Jeff Cooper's To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth, as well as seven subsequent books for the noted firearms authority and big game hunter. He penciled stories for DC's horror line and assisted on Little Orphan Annie for Tex Blaisdell, who took over the strip after the death of Harold Gray.