This is the final installment of Dreadful Gate’s big superhero crossover. Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did making it. It’s also the last Gate Crash for a couple of weeks, because of the world ending holidays. But Conny Van Ehlsing is going to continue hunting monsters, so you should be safe. To […]
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Business Man
Once I’d decided to turn Real Estate Man, originally intended to be a corrupt real estate agent, into the honest working man he now is, I needed another character who could pull the strings in the background. So here we go, straying from the realm of heroism into the world of finances. Did Business Man […]
Party Girl
I wasn’t sure about Party Girl at first. It’s not really a name I’d associate with heroism. On the other hand, that was the point. When I started the project, I made a list of potential names. Just anything that ends on “man”, “woman” or “girl”. Here’s a sample of what I came up with: […]
Office Girl
I’m convinced that the only thing that keeps any bureucracy from collapsing are the people in it. You know the type – the office worker who will find an exception for you, who pulls the right file from the wrong drawer, and all these little things that nobody thought of when those rules were set […]
Middle Man
Back when I created this page, I wasn’t aware that somebody had already beat me to the pun, and that his comic would soon become a very charming, albeit short-lived ABC Family TV show. Oh well. I don’t think anybody at Fatboy Industries will bother to interfere, but just to be on the safe side, […]
Real-Estate Man
Real-Estate Man was the first character I came up with for this event. Actually, the name goes back to one of the earliest Reception Man notebooks, where he appears as a potential villain. When I decided to use the name for the Basel exhibition in 2007, this set one of the recurring themes of the […]
Heroes of Today in the City of Tomorrow!
In 2007, years after I’d last drawn Reception Man, I was asked to contribute to a superhero exhibition in Basel, Switzerland. Guess I was still the go-to guy for super stuff in the fanzine scene here. Working, as usual, on several things at once, somehow my research about a city planning scandal bled into the […]
