Today in Comics History, February 2: Happy birthday, James Joyce!

Please raise a Guinness (but don't touch it until that head settles) along with me to wish Irish novelistist, poet, and critic James Joyce, born on this day in 1882, a very happy birthday. Sláinte, Jimbo!



from Dotter of Her Father's Eyes (Dark Horse, February 2012); script by Mary M. Talbot; pencils, inks, colors and letters by Bryan Talbot
Yes, of course if James Joyce (and hey, for no extra price, Ernest Hemingway) had to appear in a comic, it better be a Vertigo book, right?


from Shade the Changing Man (1990 series) #31 (DC/Vertigo, January 1993), script by Peter Milligan, pencils by Colleen Doran, inks by Mark Buckingham, colors by Daniel Vozzo, letters by Todd Klein
And of course, their paths violently intersect with that of Shade. Well, it was either him or Swamp Thing. And Hemingway woulda tried to smoke Swampy.


Now, one of the first things you do when the giants of literature are mystically transported to your contemporary times, is never, ever let them read their own books. And even if that should happen, what you really have to watch out for it keeping them away from reading their own biographies OH FOR CRYING OUT LOUD SHADE YOU HAD ONE JOB


from Shade the Changing Man (1990 series) #32 (DC/Vertigo, February 1993), script by Peter Milligan, pencils by Colleen Doran, inks by PAblo Marcos, colors by Daniel Vozzo, letters by Todd Klein
Well, at least there's always Trieste.


AW FOR CRYING OUT LOUD JOYCE


from Dotter of Her Father's Eyes
Happy birthday, James.