Portugal HC (MR) 10/5/24 AM "Worldwide Underground

"Worldwide Underground

for the first time in a long

Veteran illustrator Ryo Sumiyoshi stretches the boundaries of fantasy human-animal hybrids in his new book-presenting not just the usual jungle beasties but a fascinating array of strange and unusual creatures found nowhere else

Darbi fights off pteranodons

Writer Roy Thomas and artistic greats including John Buscema and Neal Adams took full advantage - and the results were a sensation

Portugal HC (MR) 10/5/24 AM "Worldwide UndergroundComics artist Simon Muchat is stuck. Suffering writer's block, uninspired, vegetating as a school art teacher, he is losing direction and his taste for life, until one day he is invited to appear at a comics convention in Portugal, the country his family came from and which he hadn't seen since his childhood. The experience proves cathartic. Even though he is not Portuguese himself and is a foreigner there, so many elements are familiar to him.