Following the blogpost Quaintess of the Recent Past No. 27, which referred to the Dan Dare modernism of the pods on the London Eye (and their design similarity to Paris buses of 45 years previously) I've had my attention drawn to a contemporary, and therefore inevitably knowing, version of the comic in which Dan Dare appeared (which was the
Eagle, printed on glossy colour paper and therefore far more expensive than those down to earth, much loved alternatives, the
Beano and
Dandy).
Today's version is
Spaceship Away and thanks to Roy Kelly I can reproduce the most Dylan-infested page of their story Gates of Eden, which features the brilliantly named John Wesley Hibbings (drawn by Tim Booth):
There is another, still more vivid drawing of the Vincent Price Era Bob Dylan in another contemporary comic (or graphic novel, in this case, if you prefer), The Umbrella Academy, created by Gerard Way, the singer in My Chemical Romance. Here He appears as God, though He is unnamed:
That central frame: perfect.
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