In 1984, the book finally happens, and it’s a super duper stylish cover, and it’s printed with really vibrant colours on shiny, white paper. The posters and the covers were really stylish, but drawing an entire (supposedly) bi-monthly series is a lot of work. Reading between the lines (and the er comic à clef in Vortex, where somebody looking suspiciously like Rivoche is described as being more into comics theoretically than practically), it sounds like Rivoche just didn’t, like… want actually do the comic itself.

The comic itself was announced in the press… and then announced again… and then the ads for Mister X by Dean Motter and Paul Rivoche started happening (in 1983?), and then… People thought the posters were really cool and mysterious: They’re done by Paul Rivoche, and look all retro-futuristic as shit. In 1982 (I think it was), Vortex announced that they’re publishing this fantastic new series, and took the unprecedented step of sending four (count em four) posters to comics shops: Well… Its history of… not being published. Mister X is an interesting book: Not really for the contents, which are uneven, but for its publishing history. By Dean Motter, Jaime & Mario & Jaime Hernandez, Seth, and a whole bunch of other people

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