Mat Brinkman's Teratoid Heights - Coda

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Images:

1. looking at this still from Mat Brinkman's favorite video game (Victory Road, Arcade, 1986) it's easy to see what inspires him...;

2. Mat Brinkman's playful little characters in Teratoid Heights (Highwater Books, 2003);

3. if Highwater's Teratoid Heights is a small book (6 x 5) this Brinkman's original mini-comic (Crab Claws; reprinted in the aforementioned Teratoid Heights) is five times smaller: roughly 2 x 3; narratively it works a lot better with an image per page until the final surprise (ruined in the faked layout of the reprint);

4. Mat Brinkman's abstract mini-comic color pages as published in The Comics Journal # 256 (October, 2003);

5. part of a "Multi-force" episode (Paper Rodeo tabloid # 6, October, November, 2000);

6. Brian Chippendale's brilliantly textured cover for Paper Rodeo # 4 (August, 2000; detail);

7. semantic noise the Fort Thunder way (detail): Joe Grillo: Paper Rodeo # 18 (August, September, 2004).

PS I thought that it was lost forever, but it's here, after all:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050404113213/www.fortthunder.org/comix/