Today A Cancer Was Born. Anzalone Is His Name.
Or, was. Or, might still be. Or, I don't know. Don't mention it. Very confusing.
Anyway, on this day, in the great state of New Jersey, the hyper-masculine, miniscule bibliophile known as Glenn Danzig was born... born to wear mesh shirts and violently hump air. Thank Cthulhu.
With less fanfare than last year's lack of fanfare, we salute Mr. Danzig and wish him 53 more years of howling with the wolves and humping with the hoes.
From 2007's The Lost Tracks of Danzig, the acoustic version of "Come to Silver", a song originally written for Johnny Cash, is a hell of a lot better than the one that appears on 1996's Blackacidevil. It's not about alchemy, in case that you wondered. Simple and melancholy, it reminds me of a typical, late-19th century novel chronicling the rise and bitter demise of some poor schmuck -- all in less than 4 minutes.
Miss Anzalone, If You're Nasty, Cristina
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Back in the day, before he was famous for doing "powerful" artwork on Lobo for DC Comics, he was painting for a British publication called Slaine (a Conan rip off).
They tried to market Slaine here in the US, but I don't think it did too well, I think around this time (90s), he was better known for doing the cover art to Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol.
Obviously Bisley had a lot of fans, particularly metalheads and fantasy-art fans. Bisley later agreed to join Danzig's comics (I forget the name), but the first few titles were Deathdealer, which I proudly own. This was a real laugh because they stretch out his 1 appearance on a Frank Frazetta 1973 painting into an "epic" comic book of three issues. Wow, right?