Brickman Returns
Wednesday, June 21, 2006 (17:20:40)

Posted by Jenn

Active Images is pleased to announce that a brand-new series of full-color BRICKMAN comic strips will begin starting in issue #2 of ELEPHANTMEN, the new title by Richard Starkings and Moritat and published by Image Comics. The new strip is entitled BRICKMAN RETURNS. Brickman, a spoof of a certain caped crusader, first appeared 27 years ago in the British small press, and is also the star of BRICKMAN BEGINS!, published by Active Images. The strip has received acclaim from such industry luminaries as Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons and Alan Davis.

“I’m having a lot of fun,” said BRICKMAN creator Lew Stringer. “The short self-contained humor strips will initially expand on the early years of Brickman's crime-fighting career for the benefit of the majority of readers who will be unfamiliar with our zero, um, Hero!. This will be BRICKMAN's largest readership to date.”

“I love Brickman, me... and I love Lew, because he's so much bolder than I am. Oh, sorry, I mean balder than I am,” said Active Images publisher and ELEPHANTMEN writer Richard Starkings, “and I’m thrilled to be able to bring Lew’s work to so many new readers. I know they’ll fall in love with the adventures of Loose Brayne and his alter-ego Brickman as he fumbles his way through story after story.”

Brickman first appeared in 1979 in Stringer’s small press 'zine AFTER IMAGE, and then appeared in a string of, er, Lew Stringer mini-comics throughout the 1980s. BRICKMAN appeared in a special black and white one-shot in 1986, and the character then vanished from the scene for ten years before returning in YAMPY TALES in 1996. Brickman finally returned in the 152-page collection, BRICKMAN, um, BEGINS in 2005