Chrome Fetus Comix

Episode #3

PRONG & PREEN 03

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What can be said? It's a wordless comic featuring our new favorite adversaries, Prong & Preen.

Episode #2

PRONG & PREEN 02

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Issue #3

THE GLOAMING 03

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Get ready for a unique graphic experience with The Gloaming, a bold work where Hans Rickheit expertly combines science fiction, horror, and provocative themes. In a world where the unimaginable takes shape, this book challenges traditional boundaries and explores the limits of societal norms. Through intense, unsettling, and surreal scenes, The Gloaming pushes the limits of genre, delving into uncharted territories of desire, conflict, and transformation. A true visual statement that blends graphic art with themes of rebellion and the unorthodox, offering a thought-provoking exploration of the unconventional, while questioning the boundaries of what is considered acceptable.

CHROME FETUS COMIX

THE TOURIST

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Based on a dream I had in February.

Issue #2

THE GLOAMING 02

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Further explorations into the perverse antics of Poppa and his sex-clones in their secluded hideaway in the back woods of New England. ADULTS ONLY!

Episode #1

PRONG & PREEN 01

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CHROME FETUS COMIX

COCHLEA & EUSTACHIA Mini Comic Promo

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This is the free promotional mini-comic I usually send out to comic shops and hand out at conventions. Now I’m handing it out virtually to you! Consider this a friendly reminder that COCHLEA & EUSTACHIA Volume 2 is now available and patiently waiting to adorn your bookshelf.

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COCHLEA & EUSTACHIA (The Stranger Strips)

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My recollection is pretty hazy on these comic strips I drew for THE STRANGER. I think it was probably 2003? I have to acknowledge and thank Rick Altergott who put in a good word for me helped get me the gig. It was probably my first professional job that paid me actual money for my weird comics. (He also provided me lots of useful advice and even instructed me how to digitally color the comics - something I was completely ignorant about at the time.) Although I didn’t live in any city that got that particular weekly periodical, I remember hearing about it when I attended the MoCCA Arts Fest that year. People were abuzz about it and kept coming up to me to tell me how excited they were to see such an oddball comic in the paper! I think that may have been the key to Fantagraphics contacting me to publish THE SQUIRREL MACHINE. Very fond memories.

Issue #1

THE GLOAMING 01

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CHROME FETUS COMIX

COCHLEA & EUSTACHIA (2004)

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I think I drew this one in 2004? My recollection is vague. It was originally published in the self-published CHROME FETUS COMIX back around then. I had only drawn a few stories featuring theses girls, and was undecided if they needed a little companion. Maybe I should have kept the dog in subsequent stories?

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MADAM MOLLUSK

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This particular comic is nostalgic for me. It originally appeared in the self-published CHROME FETUS mini-comic #5 from 2004 (or 2005?). I mostly recall hastily finishing it in time for a comix exhibit at the Zeitgeist Gallery, where I got to meet a personal hero, cartoonist Rick Altergott and Ariel Bordeaux. Not long after, the same comic was published in Danny Hellman's notorious LEGAL ACTION COMICS Vol. 2 I also recall presenting this comic to a crowd of people at an art event in Philadelphia via overhead projector accompanied by live avant-garde music. Consequently, I was chased out of the city by an angry mob. (Note - this is a truncated version of what happened.)

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FOLLY

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Here’s a comic that I drew around 2004, maybe? At the time I was living in the top floor of a building that had the words, “The Ugliest Building in Cambridge” spray-painted on the front. It was just a block away from the Zeitgeist Gallery’s second location in Hampshire Square (now occupied by a place called the Lily Pad.) I did publish it in an issue of my self-published mini-comic series Chrome Fetus Comics. Lots of people liked this one, and a panel of this comic was used as a cover for the Boston Area weekly arts newspaper, The Weekly Dig.

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Slumberland

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This one is a little tricky to upload because of its peculiar size and dimensions. I'm not sure how easy it'll read on different types of screens, but I really don't want to chop it up and reformat it! (Edit: I did anyway) This is is my entry for the excellent giant-sized anthology "Little Nemo : Dream Another Dream" published by Locust Moon Press back in 2014. An enormous tribute to Winsor McCay. This is what "Little Nemo in Slumberland" would've looked like if I was ever hired to draw the comic. The print version was pretty dark, so I increased the brightness and saturation for legibility. Maybe I'll draw some more Slumberland strips?

CHROME FETUS COMIX

COCHLEA & EUSTACHIA 2001

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This is the very first COCHLEA & EUSTACHIA comic I ever drew over two decades ago. At the time, I was drawing my weird surrealistic comics when it was firmly recommended to me by friends and relatives that I should create a consistent character that could be licensed and marketed, etc. I decided to make a pair of characters so they could converse with each other. I also decided it would be easier to just draw the same figure twice and make them twins. Having them be sexy girls in scant skirts would keep me entertained, and the masks made them seem almost like traditional superheroes. The commercial potential of these two girls has yet to be fully realized, but I did discover that I didn’t mind drawing them repeatedly for the years that followed. You can see in this early example, I still used lots of static cross-hatching to fill up space in the backgrounds. The girls were also a little meatier, which I think some readers still preferred. Oh, well. More to come, soon!

Issue #1

CHROME FETUS COMIX

HAIL JEFFREY

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Special #1

COCHLEA & EUSTACHIA - How It Works

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Issue #1

COCHLEA & EUSTACHIA - Volume 2

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Issue #2

COCHLEA & EUSTACHIA - Volume 1

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COCHLEA & EUSTACHIA by Hans Rickheit is a surreal, visually intricate graphic novel following two enigmatic, mischievous sisters as they navigate a bizarre, dreamlike world filled with strange machinery, cryptic symbols, and eerie landscapes. With minimal dialogue and a focus on atmospheric storytelling, Rickheit crafts a narrative that is both hypnotic and unsettling, blending elements of science fiction, horror, and absurdist humor. The book’s detailed, labyrinthine artwork and cryptic storytelling invite readers into an uncanny realm where logic bends, and mystery reigns.