Doing ‘meta’ comics before that was really a thing…
My sophomore year of college, I wrote and drew a daily comic strip for the student newspaper called Rayzor. The strip centered on Raymond Zorich, a college student by day/vigilante by night.
Rayzor was a loving parody of/homage to popular superhero comics and tropes, with a good amount of fourth-wall breaking by various characters. It was a comic that acknowledged from the outset that it was a comic strip, and incorporated lots of then-current pop culture happenings into the storylines.
Every word of that description feels done-to-death and tiresome today…but in 1993, it was still a fairly novel approach.
The Rayzor Digital Archive
While sorting boxes for our move to Austin, I came across a sizeable number of the original Rayzor strips. I later started digitizing the strips to create an online archive. They’re… not great, honestly. But, for whatever reason, they felt worth preserving.
These are direct scans of the original cartoons; I tweaked a couple where the original artwork was damaged or unreadable, but I promise: no “Greedo shot first” revisionist bullshit. These are presented as they originally ran (for better or worse).
Jeff Dellinger 