"Bless Us, Father..."

7 pgs. Appeared first time in Creepy #59 (1974). Reprinted in Comix International #1 (1974), in Heavy Metal Special: Richard Corben Special (1998) and in Heavy Metal Special: The Best of Richard Corben from Creepy and Eerie! (1998).
Story: William DuBay. Color(prob. colored by Corben's overlays)/Art: Richard Corben (no signature, © around 1974). Lettered by hand (Warren).

FRA FRA: as "Bénissez-moi, mon père" in Creepy [FRA] "annual serie" #26 and Une femme bafouée (1982).
SPA SPA: as "Bendícenos padre..." in Delta #20 and Famosos "Monsters" del cine #10 (1976), #12 (1976).

Style: Colored with overlay technique. Genre: Horror. Time Span: Present. Nudity: None.
Keywords: Uncle Creepy. Mad Santa Claus. Killer. Massacre. Meat Axe. Cop. Daddy's girl.
Synopsis: Another alternative Christmas story. Poor Randolph has to dig out red christmas color with meat axe, and gets cop after him.
Comment: The whole consept of this story is ground breaking: there is two columns of panels on every page. Left column's panels run down with Randolph's parents' dialogue and panels on right column run down with dialogue of Randolph's wife and daughter. And same time Randolph (and cop) have normal left to right, running down story to go. Brilliant. Corben's colors are dirty(!) and very red.

Copyright © 2001 Heart-Attack-Series, Ink!,
Created: January 12, 2001. Modified: January 4, 2010.