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Rod Kierkegaard Jr. is an American comic artist and writer, best known for 'Rock Opera' (1981-1988), which appeared in Heavy Metallic magazine. He draws in a hyper-realistic style, often with help from a figurer, and lets the stories follow a stream of consciousness, without knowing where it will accept him. Kierkegaard enjoys crafting weird tales with a lot of humour, just eventually abandoned his comics experimentations in favor of a career equally a novelist, which had e'er been his dream from the first.
Early on life and career
Kierkegaard was born in the Usa and is of Danish descent. He has ever been a bibliophile and admires novelists like Henry Rider Haggard, Walter Scott, Jack Vance, Philip K. Dick, Murasaki Shikibu, Alexandre Dumas and Machado de Assis. He tried to write some short stories of his own, but unfortunately no publisher was interested in his scribblings. His illustrations, on the other paw, met with much better reception. Kierkegaard thus decided to combine the ii formats and become a comic artist instead, inspired past Moebius, Skip Williamson, H.R. Giger and Milo Manara. His first comic strip, 'Stone Opera', was published in the undercover magazine The Unicorn Times which circulated in Washington D.C. betwixt 1973 and 1985.
Rock Opera (1)
'Rock Opera' was notable for its cut-and-paste look, combining hand drawn images with photographs lifted from books, magazines and newspapers. The story centered around an extraterrestrial black man who had the racially offensive name 'Golliwog'. One twenty-four hours he crash lands on World and has his face replaced with a mask, which indeed makes him expect similar a golliwog doll. The wild storylines brought Golliwog to New York City, where he becomes part of a punk band and meets a groupie from Andy Warhol's The Factory. Some other recurring primary protagonist was Golliwog's female person companion Quintana Roo who started out as a decadent Hollywood star, merely over the course of the series transformed into a mannequin and later a robot. Yet another character with an offensive name was Patti Hitler. As the characters started crossing as much borders as boundaries, Golliwog and Quintana Roo went to London. Kierkegaard'south editors complained that the narrative ought to stay located in Washington, since The Unicorn Times was published at that place. This constant nagging irritated the artist then much that he terminated 'Rock Opera' in March 1979.
Mod Love Comics
At his art managing director's request he fabricated something more than topical and in a unlike fashion. Kierkegaard and his wife worked at an animation studio at the time and thus he experimented with some Letraset screens he had obtained there. Kierkegaard sarcastically let a piffling pixie change the overall plot into a sly parody of a romance comic, which he retitled 'Modern Beloved Comics' and later 'Modern Marriage Comics'. This annoyed quite some readers who had the feeling Kierkegaard was deliberately trolling them. Unbeknownst to many the romantic storyline was actually based on a real-life anecdote, only Kierkegaard has never revealed what it was most? Kierkegaard later on used his iv "romantic" protagonists for a short-lived newspaper comic which ran in The Washington Mail service as a replacement for 'Doonesbury' during Garry Trudeau'due south summer vacation. He continued his run in the Unicorn Times by creating a daily comic strip which satirized current news events. Most of his comics fabricated during this menstruation were allowed a slap-up amount of creative liberty. At the time he enjoyed this, simply looking back on his work 30 years later he felt that information technology spoiled him too much into beingness "lazy and self-indulgent". Some of his pages went nowhere or were so rushed out that they barely looked finished. He was actually happy that most of information technology has been lost in obscurity. Neverthless he still worked hard to paint every prototype. Ane of his topical comics, 'Lovedoll', was printed in National Lampoon besides.
1980s
At the plow of the 1980s Kierkegaard gradually abandoned his black-and-white painting fashion in favour of colour. His wife helped him with the inking and fifty-fifty drew various backgrounds and clothes. On his blog Kierkegaard remembered she did her chore so well that the contrast between their drawings became too apparent. In the terminate her help didn't salvage him time, it actually caused him to work fifty-fifty longer to make sure that their styles matched amend without readers noticing it. The couple moved to Paris in 1981, where Kierkegaard got in touch on with many European comic artists, including his good friend Tanino Liberatore. Kierkegaard's strange comic 'The Schoolboy Assassin', which featured cameos of Wendy O. Willliams (The Plasmatics) and Cambodian dictator Political leader Pot appeared in issue #three (July 1981) of Raw.
'Rock Opera', from Heavy Metal (February 1982).
Rock Opera (two)
In Jan 1981 'Stone Opera' got picked up by Métal Hurlant/Heavy Metal, where it ran for 7 years. Métal Hurlant's audience was far more than receptive to Kierkegaard'south comics than the Unicorn Times ever was. As a result the artist terminated his contract with Unicorn Times and stayed in his new dwelling house magazine. The overall plot of 'Stone Opera' was inspired by the short stories of novelists similar J.G. Ballard and Italo Calvino, only gradually got more than offensive and sillier. Golliwog and Quintana Roo travelled from planet to planet, where they encountered odd things like pandas in an airplane who want to watch the sitcom 'I Love Lucy'. Various celebrities and pop culture characters too had a cameo, such as E.T., Prince, The Beatles, Darth Vader, Brian Eno, Andy Warhol and Walt Disney'south Mickey Mouse. The comic strip read like a bizarre drug trip, where all kinds of random nonsensical things happened. At the same time the artwork was impressive and the narrative at least unpredictable.
Stars Massacre
In 1987 Kierkegaard published 'Stars Massacre' (Editions Albin Michel, released in the U.Southward.A. as 'Shooting Stars', Catalan Communications), a graphic novel which follows the adventures of detective Rockfort, a private center who solves cases for rock stars. 'Stars Massacre' (1987) was somewhat comparable to 'Rock Opera', but with a slightly more comprehensible plot. Detective Rockfort meets a host of real-life pop stars like Paul McCartney, Diana Ross, Boy George and Sting, but who often have punny names. Michael Rockson (Michael Jackson) is featured in a violent and sexually explicit slasher story. Prance (Prince) is reimagined equally some kind of Frankenstein'south Monster, while Rockfort has to assist popular singer Madollar (Madonna) find her virginity dorsum. While the celebrity portrayals can't exactly be chosen subtle spoofs they are still deliciously surreal, funny and disrespectful. Another book in the same vain is 'Rock Monstres' (Editions Albin Michel).
Advent of the musician Prince in 'Shooting Stars'.
Novels
Cheers to his fame as a graphic novelist, Kierkegaard somewhen was able to realize his dream of getting his written novels published. In 2011 he brought out the murder-mystery novel 'Family Cursemas', the get-go installment in his 'Megamillionaire Murders' series. The story takes place during a holiday reunion of the wealthy Goodman family at Christmas Eve, when each member of the family unit is murdered by an unknown private. It was followed past 'The God Particle' (2012), a thriller well-nigh a group of four friends who work on a generator utilizing the Higgs boson, nicknamed "the God particle", and who are then mysteriously murdered. Another friend goes on a search for the reason behind their killings and to discover the secret backside the God Particle machine. In 2014 Kierkegaard published 'Adultery', intended as the first book of the Reddish Alphabet. Together with J.R. Rain he wrote 'The Dead Detective' (2014) and the short story drove 'The Ghosts of Christmas Present' (2014). In 2014 he brought out his outset science fiction novel: 'Obama Jones and the Logic Bomb'. Set up in 2049, the mild-mannered bureaucrat Obama Jones loses his married woman in a United nations witness protection program. Determined to get her back he travels through cyberspace where he meets shapeshifting robots, talking apes, civil war in Cardinal Park and even God.
His novel 'Vampire Circus' (2015) originated from an erotic comic he wrote at the request of his publisher. Kierkegaard felt the story lacked something and kept returning to it. 1 day it occured to him that information technology might piece of work amend if information technology was rewritten equally the story of a vampire killer who returns to his trade after serving a jail fourth dimension. Noticing similarities between his story and the lives of French novelist Colette and African-American dancer Josephine Bakery he used their biographies as a source of inspiration. In 2016 Kierkegaard published 'The Department of Magic', a horror novel about two people who apply fo a task in the mysterious 'Department of Magic', of which they both know nothing about. As they are both hired their boss is murdered on their start work twenty-four hour period. Curious, they attempt to detect out who is behind the murder, what his motives are and what this "magical department" is all near?
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