Burp #1
Burp © David Morris
| Burp David Morris |
I'm sure David Morris has gone on to rather better things than this inconsequential collection of odds & ends. Best thing I've seen from him was Chris Butler's Monkey Punk No1 about a malevolent hippopotamus that had a wonderfully creepy edge.
Morris has a cheerful springy, animated style taking most of it's cues from American comics, (indeed many of the strips here seem to miss the colour that would separate out a tendency to slightly cluttered drawing) and when allied to a decent script as in Tom Murphy's Annual Report, a cutting study of a yuppie romance, can hit the right buttons.
Most pieces here however are weak satires (satire doesn't come thinner than Phantom Bog Roller) that don't warrant the time spent on them and only serve to show Morris' drawing skills.
My personal favourite is a well drawn piece in what looks like his later sparser style called Adolescent Power Fantasies (example shown). It is rather cringing apologia for actually daring to read comics in the first place but is sparklingly well done.
Mark Robinson
| Burp: 36 A5 pages card stock cover. | Recieved at ZUM! HQ: no details |
£1.50 (+P+P?) | David Morris, 235 something street - sorry - need to look up that detail as recent change of address. |