Oni Press
Brian Michael Bendis' 'Fortune and Glory' exposes the stupidity of Hollywood producers, and the enthralling mood swings and ego nosedives of an indie comicbook creator caught up in the maelstrom of the motion picture industry.
This is a short little cartoony hardback telling the story of Bendis' flirtation with Hollywood following the release of his early crime books.
It tells of how he came to the attention of various Hollywood players and ended up doing the rounds of the various producers in trying to get 'Goldfish' and then 'Torso' turned into movies.
It's written in a Harvey Pekar style with Bendis' own talking head cartoony art to illustrate it. I'm a fan of cartoon art and his style is personable enough but never managed to grab me anywhere interesting but was perfectly functional. He always spins a good yarn though and so the whole story unfolds in an engaging manner.
It is very much Pekar and that's not really a bad thing but obviously at heart there's a bit of curmudgeonly gold missing which is not to say that what is here is not to be enjoyed because it most assuredly is.
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