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"Here's an unusual and rare piece of art. This is the original art I drew for the catalog solicitation of the first issue of my comic book series Evil Eye. Fantagraphics needed an image from the comic, but I hadn't actually drawn anything yet! (The solicitation was done months in advance because the catalog had to be printed and distributed). So I drew up this panel from a story I had written but hadn't drawn yet. So - (besides the cover, which was done), this is the first drawing of the character Peculia. The panel was redrawn for the story in the first issue, but this one was always a stand alone panel which ended up stuck in one of my drawers."
"Here's an unusual and rare piece of art. This is the original art I drew for the catalog solicitation of the first issue of my comic book series Evil Eye. Fantagraphics needed an image from the comic, but I hadn't actually drawn anything yet! (The solicitation was done months in advance because the catalog had to be printed and distributed). So I drew up this panel from a story I had written but hadn't drawn yet. So - (besides the cover, which was done), this is the first drawing of the character Peculia. The panel was redrawn for the story in the first issue, but this one was always a stand alone panel which ended up stuck in one of my drawers."
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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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