Liberty Meadows by Frank Cho for August 16, 2021

Oh, hell!

Be a devil of a job to get out of there….

Blankets! Are we in for a freezing spell?

Allen and Benito?

Nice Doré pastiche.

I thought the quote was “abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” I could be wrong. What say you, Google? Ah! Google says I’m right!

“Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch’entrate”. Inferno Canto 3, line 9

Where’s Cerebus?

Nice artwork; very grim!

He’s only at the first circle? This’ll take awhile…

Cho is such a great artist. His genius lies in being able to mimic any art style and lampoon it.

Think Frank will at least make it to Purgatorio? We know he doesnt get Brandy, so much for Paradisio.

Is that Dante?

Ya shoulda took the left fall at Albuquerque……….

“Throw me idol, I’ll throw you the whip!”

Incredible artwork!

“Classic Italian Depression Support Group?”

A few years ago, Dave Sim (apparently after suffering a wrist injury that made it difficult for him to draw) published Cerebus in Hell, featuring everybody’s favourite aardvark anti-hero laid on a background from Doré’s illustrations of Dante’s “Inferno.”

(Personally, I’m not that big on Doré’s “Inferno” art, but I love his illustrations for Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (they’re used to illustrate the poem in Martin Gardner’s Annotated edition.)