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How would you describe the title for those who are only just hearing about it?
Craig Yoe:Let me search for the right word.
Wacky, oddball, surreal.
Bizarro would be a good word to describe Space Western Comics but, FUN is the operative word!
What was your first exposure to this strange and delightful series?
Spurs Jackson is the hero.
What makes him an interesting character?
And the Space Race between the US and Russia was on.
Walter B Gibson was the writer for these strips, but more famously developed The Shadow.
Do you see a lineage between that character and Gibson’s work on Space Western Comics?
Walter Gibson was the consummate writer.
These stories are all full of imagination and bravado.
John Belfi, Stan Campbell, and Lou Morales drew these stories.
What do you admire about their art?
Those artists were journeymen artists who well-knew how to tell a good yarn that reads and moves with gusto.
They were each obviously having a good time delineating this far-out fare and it shows.
The readers are up for a hell of a ride!
This story and all the rest were lovingly restored to make that experience pleasurably top-notch.
Could you tell us a little about your experience of editing this volume?
What was the process like?
Clizia Gussoni and I thoroughly enjoyed putting together this book.
We are always passionate about editing, designing and infusing our books with fascinating context and background history.
What is your favourite story in the collection, and why?
Don’t make me choose!
Together they stop planet Earth from being blown to smithereens by invading aliens!
This was the historical first time us fanboys and cosplayers were depicted in comics!
What do you think has been the legacy of Space Western Comics?
Space Western Comics may have inspired some recent movie fare, and who knows David Bowie.
The readers of this crazy comic will have to decide.
However, it is guaranteed they will have *WHAT?
- reading the complete Space Western stories (including a LOST one we discovered)?!
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