Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Stewart the Rat by Stewart The Rat GN (1980 Eclipse) comic books. This item is not in stock. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available. 1st printing. Written by Steve Gerber. Art by Gene Colan and Tom Palmer. From the creator of (Gerber) comes another Anthropomorphic hero with attitude. Softcover, 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $6.95. Customer Testimonials Our customers have some nice things to say about us: Customer Testimonials Mailing List Join our Mailing List for news and sales. We’ve been selling comics since 1961 (our first sale: Fantastic Four #1 at $0.25, see one of our first ads) and on the web since 1996. Copyright © 1996 - 2021 Lone Star Comics Inc. Character images copyright © their respective owners. Stewart The Rat (2003) comic books. This item is not in stock. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available. Written by Steve Gerber. Art by Gene Colan and Tom Palmer. Steve Gerber and Gene Colan followed up their classic run on Howard the Duck with an original about a walking, talking rat facing the excesses of life in Los Angeles. First published in 1980, this long-lost work is now available again, in affordable comic book format! 48 pages, B&W. Mature Readers. Cover price $3.95. Customer Testimonials Our customers have some nice things to say about us: Customer Testimonials Mailing List Join our Mailing List for news and sales. We’ve been selling comics since 1961 (our first sale: Fantastic Four #1 at $0.25, see one of our first ads) and on the web since 1996. Copyright © 1996 - 2021 Lone Star Comics Inc. Character images copyright © their respective owners. Stewart the Rat. In the wake of their groundbreaking work on Howard the Duck, writer Steve Gerber and artist Gene Colan brought another talking animal into the world, subjecting a rat named Stewart to the madness that is Los Angeles. Between self-help cults and the putrified corpse of Disco, it's a fate that even a rat doesn't deserve. As one of the first American graphic novels and an early example of the independent publishing movement, Stewart the Rat was free from the restrictions and censorship that ruled the comics field. Steve Gerber. Stephen Ross Gerber (/ˈɡɜːrbər/; September 20, 1947 – February 10, 2008) was an American comic book writer best known for co-creating the satiric character Howard the Duck and a character-defining run on Man-Thing, one of their monster properties. He was known for Genre-Busting and championing creator's rights. Writing in The '70s, he prefigured the Darker And Grittier Eighties, writing genre-stretching stories about small characters with less-than-supernatural problems. Best known as the creator of Howard the Duck, Stephen Ross Gerber has established a reputation for working at the cutting edge of comics. In a career spanning more than thirty years, Steve has put words in the mouths of virtually every major character in the comic book world -- from to Magilla Gorilla -- and his work has appeared under the imprint of almost every major publisher in the field. He has also written extensively in animation and television, and even has a computer book to his credit. Steve's other comics creations include (Vertigo Press); Void Indigo (); (Malibu Comics); (Eclipse Comics and Image Comics); Stewart the Rat (Eclipse Comics); A. Bizarro (DC Comics); as well as , Suburban Jersey Ninja She- Devils, and Omega the Unknown (co-created with Mary Skrenes), all published by Marvel Comics. His runs on Marvel's Man-Thing and titles and his miniseries for DC are considered comic book classics. Steve also wrote, edited, and supervised the production of Marvel's celebrated KISS comic book, based on the goth-glam rock band. In 1998, Toons magazine asked its readers to vote for the Top 25 animated series of all time. Steve served as chief story editor on two of those series -- G.I. Joe (Sunbow Productions) and Dungeons & Dragons (Marvel Productions) -- and won an Emmy for his work as staff writer on a third, The Batman/Superman Adventures (WB Animation). Steve also co-created and story edited the animated cult favorite for Ruby-Spears Productions. In collaboration with Beth Woods Slick, Gerber co-authored BBSs for Dummies (IDG Press), a lighthearted manual on computer telecommunications, and the second season Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Contagion." Gerber died February 10, 2008, after a long battle with lung disease, leaving his eight-issue story arc unfinished. REG EVERBEST. Anagrammatical pseudonym of Steve Gerber used on Hanna-Barbera titles. At the time of Gerber's death, only two Reg Everbest stories had been published in the original English; most were translated for publication in Europe. ==== Notes: In homage to Steve Gerber, Roger Stern gave the Foolkiller, whose real name was never given by Gerber, the name "Ross G. Everbest" in The Amazing Spider-Man #225. ==== 1980: Stewart the Rat. Steve Gerber is probably the most well-known defection from 70s Marvel, so I won’t get into that, other than to say that Eclipse’s run of all-ex- Marvel talent continues unabated with this album-format comic. As Gerber used to in the Howard the Duck comics, he adds handful of text pieces to both get exposition out of the way and to make some jokes. The artwork is by the Gene Colan/Tom Palmer penciller/inks team up. The bio on the back of this book claims that they’ve done over 2500 pages (most of them at Marvel) over the years, and they’re really well-suited to each other. Colan’s pencils are moody and expressive, while Palmer’s inks are razor-sharp and juicy. This book is about a semi-human-sized rat with the brain of a human being in a world he … made, so you may be forgiven for thinking that Gerber had difficulties coming up with new concepts. But that’s a disco . With built-in loudspeakers. Your objections are invalid. But throughout this book, Gerber is mostly flailing. It’s basically just a series of tableaux like this (often featuring some quite super-hero-like villains) that attack Our Heroes until the book ends. (Well, there’s a bit of plot at the end.) There’s also the strange choice of giving the titular protagonist a background as a girlfriend-murdering human… as a throw-away gag, almost. Gerber isn’t a very restrained writer. On the other hand, it’s a fun book. And so controversial! Again… it’s imaginative, but… perhaps some restraint may have helped? What did the critics think at the time? Here’s Dale Luciano from The Comics Journal 62, excerpted from a four-page review: The book is almost certain to be widely regarded as a major disappointment, however, and I seriously doubt whether those who weren’t Gerber fans before will find much reason in Stewart to alter their opinions. My own feeling about Stewart is that it’s a troublesome enigma. I didn’t much like the book. and I was offended by the pretentiousness of the writing and the violence. Still, Gerber is no ordinary slouch, and his special genius, or whatever it is, is evident in this extraordinarily disingenuous book, which perhaps deserves to be called controversial. I was intrigued by the possibilities Of the material, even as I felt Gerber steering the book straight into the dumper. Nobody denies that Gerber is an important, influential writer; his Man—Thing and Howard stories are remarkable achievements in comics, and it’s possible that only a gifted writer like Gerber could produce as substantial a disappoin tment as Stewart the Rat. It’s possible that Gerber has exorcised some powerful demons in Stewart, and will be heard from more eloquently in the future.’ Possible, but it didn’t happen, really. Stewart the Rat was reprinted in 2003 by About Comics in what must be the ugliest possible cover design.