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In a similar style during the 1976-1992 period is the airbrushed funny-animal work of
Ken Macklin.
Who I mentioned earlier in the topic.
Ken Macklin's best known work is his "DR. Watchstop" series of strips, that were collected by Eclipse in the 64-page
DR. WATCHSTOP graphic novel.
As well as a number of beauiful limited edition prints.
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https://readallcomics.com/dr-watchstop-adventures-in-time-and-space-full/ This was published by Eclipse as both a trade paperback graphic novel, and also as a signed/numbered hardcover.
And I like it so much, I couldn't resist getting it in both forms.
Macklin did a total of about 40 stories during his comics career, increasingly just doing covers toward the end of his time as a comics artist.
And the DR WATCHSTOP graphic novel collects about half of Macklin's total work.
Macklin's earliest work I saw was in the Star Reach funny animal title
QUACKhttps://readallcomics.com/quack-2/https://readallcomics.com/quack-3/https://readallcomics.com/quack-5/https://readallcomics.com/quack-6/https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Quack/Issue-2?id=174137https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Quack/Issue-3?id=174138In the late 1970's Ken Macklin was dating and then married portfolio artist and sometimes comics artist Lela Dowling.
I especially love her work in the DRAGONS I and II portfolios, UNICORNS I and II portfolios (1979-1983), and stories in PATHWAYS TO FANTASY, EPIC ILLUSTRATED, DRAGON's TEETH magazine, FUSION, and other titles.
https://readallcomics.com/epic-illustrated-24/https://readallcomics.com/epic-illustrated-32/Macklin and Dowling separated about 20 years ago, and Dowling is now married to another comics/portfolio artist Frank Cirocco, who all three came out of the same San Francisco art community and schools in the late 1970's, and whose work often appeared side by side in the same comics and magazines.
While I like Cirocco's portfolio work far better, Frank Cirocco is best known in comics for his ALIEN LEGION Marvel graphic novel, and
ALIEN LEGION comic series from Epic.
https://readallcomics.com/marvel-graphic-novel-issue-25-the-alien-legion-a-grey-day-to-die/https://readallcomics.com/alien-legion-v1-001/Where George Chastain's work is focused more on 1930's/1940's pop culture, movies, and pulp adventure combined with Disney-like funny animals, Ken Macklin's work is more focused on science fiction, time-travel parodoxes, and other sword and sorcery/fantasy-genre material, in humorous stories involving funny animals. Macklin also cites a Disney influence on his work. And back in the day, Macklin, Dowling and Cirocco all created a number of decorative portfolios and prints.
