Happy birthday to French-born Canadian comic book artist and writer Bernie Mireault, born today in 1961. Comics critic Timothy Callahan has argued that Mireault is one of the unheralded creators who helped bring in the Modern Age of Comic Books. #BernieMireault

Cover to The Everyman - a human rises screaming from a grave while many ghostly hands reach up toward them Cover by Mike Allred and Bernie Mireault

OTD in 1991 Epic Comics released #TheEveryman, by @allredmd.bsky.social and #BernieMireault (RIP).

Let’s hear it for (relatively) early gender-fluid representation in comics! (From Marvel!)

Not sure how, but my copy is signed on the title page by Allred and Mireault

#IHadThatComic

cover to Urban Legends 1: A boy bites into a fried rat while his parents look on, his father saying, "Good Lord! That ain't chicken... it's a batter-fried rat!" Text: "Weird! Startling! Uncanny!" Cover by Dan Clowes

#IHadThatComic: June 8, 1993

Urban Legends 1 - First issue of a proposed anthology series. The second issue never came out. 25 stories by #ArtAdams, #PeterBagge, #MikeAllred, #MattWagner, #BernieMireault, #EvanDorkin, #RichardSala, #HilaryBarta, #MitchOConnell, #IvanBrunetti, and more!

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