Posted by Heero on July 26, 19100 at 09:15:03:
In Reply to: Re: "Stan's Lionheart story" and Vicky pic posted by stan sakai on July 25, 19100 at 22:13:12:
: Lionheart was a character created by Tom Stazer. We collaborated on a story (he wrote, I illustrated) for a back-up in issue 23 of the Fantagraphics run. Tom also wrote and illustrated a number of other Lionheart stories for Critters and other issues of UY. He was the only other person to do a back-up story in the Mirage run.
The "Lionheart" story has a guy that gets in trouble with the mob and the mob looks kinda like the Yakuza (Japanese Mafia) in anthropomorfic form of course. Altho, I believe at the time they might have also resembled certain members of the staff or publishing team (since that seems to happen relatively often as well :)
I'm all but positive that that's the one Stan did seeing as how I recall seeing his hand in the character designs that time around.
"This is an odd way to commit suicide.."