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A Planet of the Apes Postcard
for Swamp Thing's Stephen R. Bissette

 
   

Posted by Rich Handley, Jan. 30, 2011

Gushing-fan moment... with me as the gushing fan.

Stephen R. Bissette, an icon among comic-book icons, asked me to send him a signed, personalized postcard that he could put in his copy of Lexicon of the Planet of the Apes. For those who don't get the impact of that statement, Bissette was Alan Moore's artist during his tenure on Swamp Thing, and is one of my all-time favorite artists—for me, a die-hard Swamp Thing fan (click here if you don't believe me), this is the equivalent of George Lucas asking for my autograph.

Therefore, I made the graphic to the right from an old Planet of the Apes 45 record and glued it to a comic backing board, in order to create a custom-made postcard. I then wrote the following in the white circle in the middle, for him to place inside the book:

"Steve,
The classics, like
Swamp Thing, Planet
of the Apes, and 45 RPM
records, never get old!
Thank you for countless
hours of reading bliss.
Sincerely,
Rich Handley"
Dorky? Yes. Self-congratulatory? Without question. But that's just fine with me. Steve freakin' Bissette asked for my autopgraph, baby.


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