PAT KECK! Interviewed by TIM “Tonfa” GOODYEAR.
Q1{ whats the first comix you saw? Did you buy it?
A1{ Hmmm my older brother had some comics lying around when we were young, not many tho. He wasn’t a big collector or anything. But I still have an issue of Silver Surfer that was his. I kinda cherish it. It’s got this villain called The Obliterator, he’s kind of a loser-villain. It starts with him drinking giant mugs of frothy beer in a sort of star wars-cantina setting, always loved those big frothy beer mugs in that story. He takes a drink and has a big froth beard at one point. I like the design of The Obliterator. He’s got a flat-top, elf ears, and like little orphan annie eyes, real cool design. It’s drawn by Marshall Rogers and Dave Cockrum, and I’ve never tried finding anything else done by them, but I’d like to. My brother (or someone in our family) wrote our last name, KECK, real big on the cover with a sharpie, I like that about it too. The first stuff I bought myself was probably Garfield books. I really like this one Garfield book called “The Nine Lives of Garfield,” that book is pretty far out. It’s like Heavy Metal Garfield, 9 stories all done by different artists in drastically different styles, cool book. I got a little older and bought SPAWN, WILDCATS, SAVAGE DRAGON. All the 90’s Image junk. Pretty fun junk. I also subscribed to Heroes Illustrated, which helped introduce me to lots of different stuff that couldn’t be found around the small town I grew up in. I always thought Heroes Illustrated was slightly cooler than Wizard, but it was probably not that different.
