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Richard Sala - Delphine 2 - p26 tier3
Mixed Media
Watercolor and ink on Arches watercolor paper
Added on 5/15/25
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The previous owner asked Richard if he was ever attacked by a vicious dog and received the following answer:
"I have a vivid memory - from when I was a kid - of an actual "mad" dog (actually foaming at the mouth), a German shepherd, chasing one of the neighborhood kids (poor Timmy Howieson) down the street as he screamed in terror. The dog seemed to hone on him, ignoring everything else, like a guided missile, and wasn't satisfied until it bit the kind in the ass as he tried to outrun it. The dog was a neighbor's and I suspect it was probably severely maltreated. It hated all the neighborhood kids with a frightening passion and would go into a mad frenzy when any of us walked by the yard where they kept him chained up. When it happened, a bunch of us were standing on the street when somebody visiting the neighbor accidentally held the door open and the dog bolted out right at us kids. I guess Tim was the only one that ran, so the dog chose to go after him. We all stood frozen watching them run down the street until they were out of sight! Anyway -- since you asked!-- I was definitely thinking about that when I came up with that sequence in the story."
"I have a vivid memory - from when I was a kid - of an actual "mad" dog (actually foaming at the mouth), a German shepherd, chasing one of the neighborhood kids (poor Timmy Howieson) down the street as he screamed in terror. The dog seemed to hone on him, ignoring everything else, like a guided missile, and wasn't satisfied until it bit the kind in the ass as he tried to outrun it. The dog was a neighbor's and I suspect it was probably severely maltreated. It hated all the neighborhood kids with a frightening passion and would go into a mad frenzy when any of us walked by the yard where they kept him chained up. When it happened, a bunch of us were standing on the street when somebody visiting the neighbor accidentally held the door open and the dog bolted out right at us kids. I guess Tim was the only one that ran, so the dog chose to go after him. We all stood frozen watching them run down the street until they were out of sight! Anyway -- since you asked!-- I was definitely thinking about that when I came up with that sequence in the story."
Publications
- Delphine
- Fantagraphics
- 11/2012
- Interior page
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- Delphine (Vol. 2)
- Coconino Press
- 2008-06-12
- Page 26 tier3
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About Richard Sala
Richard Sala's work has been appearing in a wide variety of newspapers, books and magazines, as well as on toy packaging, greeting cards and on the internet since the 1980s. After debuting with a self-published magazine, 'Night Drive,' Richard Sala gradually became (as he puts it himself) the "king of the bad anthologies".
Once Sala appeared in Raw magazine, he became a regular feature in many different types of magazines, including Buzz, Twist, Escape, Drawn & Quarterly, and Rip Off Comix. He and Charles Burns even found their way into the mainstream by way of MTV's animation showcase 'Liquid Television'. Sala's animated serial, 'Invisible Hands' appeared on MTV, and his work can also be found on the CD-ROMs 'Freak Show' and 'Bad Day on the Midway'.
But Sala liked his horror-noir material best, so he concentrated on doing comics for magazines. His "magnum opus", 'The Chuckling Whatsit', was serialized over seventeen issues of the Fantagraphics 'Zero Zero' magazine. His comic book series 'Evil Eye' ran for 12 issues between 1998 and 2001. He has since released several horror-noir graphic novels, including 'Peculia' (2002), 'Mad Night' (2005), 'The Grave Robber's Daughter' (2006), 'Cat Burglar Black' (2009) and 'The Hidden ' (2011).
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