Kings
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The now-defunct but still well
regarded rock group "Kings
in Disguise" wrote me in the early '90s for permission to
use my title for the name of the band. Their website notes that the
name came from the original one-act play, but I suspect at least one
band member had visions of Dan Burr's Freddie dancing in his mind. |
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| Kings in Disguise
has its own font named after it, which very appropriately seems to
be a variation on a typeface called Hobo... |
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| About the time that the first
issue of Kings in Disguise appeared in print, I was asked
to adapt the original play to radio. Starring a 15-year-old girl as
Freddie, the radio version of Kings was broadcast in late
May 1988. A live broadcast, it now exists only on an audiocassette
which I probably should take better care of. |
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Kitchen Sink 20th Anniversary
Collector Cards
featuring Kings in Disguise
In 1989, I was delighted
to find my work on a bubble gum card when Kitchen Sink Press issued
a set of trading cards promoting its twentieth year in business.
Card #9 featured the Harvey Kurtzman-Peter Poplaski cover for
Kings #2. I still have a stack of these, and will trade
you three Freddies for a nice Phil Rizzuto.
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Images of Omaha was
a two-issue benefit series created to help defray the medical costs
of Omaha artist Reed Waller, who was undergoing treatment
for colon cancer. Besides doing our part for a good cause, Dan Burr
and I got to rub shoulders with some phenomenally talented people,
and contributed a one-page Kings strip that has never appeared
anywhere else. Think of this as Kings
in Disguise: The
Lost Episode... |
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| College and university professors
have surprised me by including Kings on their required or
suggested reading lists. Here are some
of those who have come to my attention, and I'd be delighted to learn
of any others. |
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| Foreign editions of Kings
have begun to appear with gratifying regularity. The very first was
a 1991 Italian edition published by Granata Press. A lovely French
edition appeared in 2003, courtesy of Vertige Graphic. Saldapress
brought out a gorgeous second Italian edition in 2006. A long-awaited
Swedish translation is in the works, and a Spanish edition has just
been announced. Freddie and Sam do get around... |
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