Don Simpson

Yeah, absolutely.

Well, next we have one of the more famous ones with In Pictopia, featuring art by Don Simpson and first appearing in Anything Goes No. 2, also in 1986.

So here, we follow Nocturno the Magician, who lives in the cartoon world of Pictopia, although he and his newspaper strip brethren find themselves slowly being pushed out by the more popular superheroes, who have become darker and increasingly more violent.

It's really interesting to note that this comes out when Moore is still knee-deep in Watchmen, which winds up being the ultimate deconstructionist work in superhero comics.

But, you know, I think it was Tim who came on your show.

He said, you know, guys like Warren Ellis and some of the people who followed him, Grant Morrison to a lesser degree, you can name several, are the ones who I think are more... responsible for you know kind of that darkening period uh grim and gritty whatever you want to call it But Pictopia, in Pictopia definitely, uh, was the story in the book that created the biggest stir, let's say, uh, because it printed poorly.

You know, it was, uh, there, it, Don, Don Simpson was very unhappy, as he should be.

I mean, it looked terrible.

Two of the three new followers, they like comment on the posts that I had just done, including the Substack or liked them.

And then they commented or they liked the previous ones that I had done you know, maybe a year or so ago when I was working on, uh, Don Simpson's Megaton man, multi-mentions.

And so I think that's when I actually signed up for sub stack was because Don was on there and I kind of wanted to spread it around a little bit.

So, uh, all in all, uh, really awesome.

don't know.

The guy who did Megaton Man, Don Simpson.

Oh, Don Simpson

did a Frankenstein one?

Yeah, he did something.

And it's like, yeah, I remember that shelf.

And what I just remember is, yeah, I

remember Don Simpson's, there was some sort of Frankenstein thing.

So have you actually had conversations with comic fans at conventions that went exactly like that?

yes um i've had you know way back when i i used to put in my editorials it's like you come to a show and let me know if you can find the easter eggs in this and and you know people would go buy the comic read it in the lobby and come back and say i found this i found this i found this you know and it's like that that's great i i love that energy um so i do you know who don simpson is

The name sounds familiar.

He has a character called Megaton Man, so he's been around since the 80s.