Marvel has announced that it will be bringing some up-and-coming indie artists to the “MAX,” in its upcoming series Strange Tales MAX, which is due out in stores in September.
According to Heidi at the Beat, amongst their quirky lineup: Paul Pope, Peter Bagge, Molly Crabapple & John Leavitt, Jinko Mizuno, Dash Shaw, James Kochalka, Johnny Ryan, Michael Kupperman, Nick Bertozzi, Nicholas Gurewich, and Jason.
What we know right now? That Jason will be working on Spider-Man, that Tony Millionaire will take a shot at Iron Man, Dash Shaw will take on Dr. Strange, and we will finally see Peter Bagge’s Incorrigible Hulk.
“Flat out, this is the apex of human artistic achievement. This is it. The end. The crowning result of tens of millions of years of evolution, right here, in three packed-to-the-gills issues,” editor John Barber said in a press release. “The philosophy of the book was to have these creators from ‘indy’ or ‘alternative’ or “literary” or ‘art’ comics come in and do what they do best. I think Marvel readers will really dig seeing radically different versions of their favorite characters, and the fans of these cartoonists will get to see the creators work in a milieu they never thought they’d get to see. It’s win-win. It’s really the best of both worlds.”
