Comics — Zerns Sickest
Zern draws Uncle Smiles with human teeth and deflated, veiny scrotum-texture. In one panel, Uncle Smiles eats a corn dog through his ear . The final strip shows him floating away while whispering, “You didn’t want the stuffed giraffe anyway.” It’s surreal, predatory, and deeply unsettling.
+------------------------+-------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Comic Title | Creator / Publisher | Core Theme / Aesthetic | +------------------------+-------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Zap Comix | Robert Crumb | 1960s Underground Counter-Culture | | Faust: Love of the Dam | Tim Vigil | 1980s Indie Splatterpunk Horror | | Crossed | Garth Ennis / Avatar | Extreme Dystopian Psychological | | Neonomicon | Alan Moore / Avatar | Cosmic Lovecraftian Transgression | | Black Hole | Charles Burns | Biomorphic Body Horror & Sci-Fi | +------------------------+-------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Taboo | Steve Bissette | Award-Winning Horror Anthology | +------------------------+-------------------------+-----------------------------------+ Zap Comix (Robert Crumb) zerns sickest comics
A haunting, beautifully illustrated body-horror graphic novel. The story follows a group of teenagers in the 1970s who contract a strange, mutating sexually transmitted disease, serving as a dark metaphor for the anxieties of growing up. How to Collect Rare and Transgressive Comics Today Zern draws Uncle Smiles with human teeth and
In the comic book universe, "sickest" can mean two things: mind-bendingly incredible artwork, or transgressive, taboo-shattering narratives. The comics that earned this reputation generally fall into three major historical and artistic categories. 1. The 1960s–1970s Underground Comix Movement The comics that earned this reputation generally fall
Zern draws the juice as a color that shouldn’t exist (a sort of vibrating brown-yellow-green). The grandson’s face, panel by panel, melts like a Salvador Dalí clock. The final panel is just text: “It tasted like the color of a lie.”