Rabid Animal Komix

    (Krankin’ Komix, 1995-1996)
©1995 Mike Hersh

Rager Rabbit and Marky Mouse are definitely not your father’s funny animals. Writer/artist Mike Hersh’s crude, contemporary, and often hilarious creations are self-consciously reminiscent of the style and spirit of Robert Crumb’s Fritz the Cat series from the 1960s, but with punk rock nihilism and ’90s grit replacing Crumb’s drug-addled hippie culture.

Rager, with his New Orleans drawl (“Wuhk sucks!”) and insatiable appetite for drink, drugs, and women, along with his sidekick and provocateur, Marky, drunkenly stumble from one misadventure to the next as they cling to their marginal existence in the urban punk-animal underground. Hersh’s black-and-white artwork is gross and graphic in the best “comix” tradition, and the goofy plots are sometime predictable but always spirited and satisfying.
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