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Hunchback

Lonely, mutant freak.

About Me

Hi, I am Hunchback Igor. I am a baled mute, mutant Hunch Back who’s the star of my own story. I have a heart of gold and the touch of death. I am basically just very hungry, but whenever I find food, something goes wrong; horribly wrong. I was, and still am on an epic journey to find what everybody wants, a meal to eat and a place to belong. On the way I ran into quite a cast of characters, such as Boomer The Boy Bomb. Boomer’s sort of an ugly cross between Hergé’s Tintin, and CC Beck’s Captain Marvel, but instead of having grand adventures or turning into a super hero he just gets hit by a lot of lightning and has no powers. I was shanghaied by a sand raking, seafaring band of Sea Bishops. I found this odd because I’m not really good at anything. A Murder Puppet plays a big role in my tale. He’s a Grim Reaper hand puppet that I traded a Sea Monk a freshly cooked fish head for. The drawback was that I had no idea that the sinister puppet had possessed my right hand, and it was a pick pocketing, psychopathic killer. I meet a few of the old standbys; Mummy, Wolfman and Gillman, who run a gambling parlor out of an ancient temple. There’s the Countess Marya, who’s has the misfortune of being Dracula’s daughter. She was kind of nice but when she killed a diner full of monsters I staked her in the back. Naturally, that gang of future alcoholic senators; Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins show up because “The Eagle had landed” but were we in the Sea of Tranquility or was it all just a lie? There’s also The Reverend Mortimer Smirch, head of the mysterious Church of Psychology, who killed my butterflies. I liked King Benny, the man who sold his soul at the Cross Roads to become the “King of Bingo.” I really hope I win this game of bingo so I can buy a sandwich. I’d eat one of those pills Dr. Smirch gave me, but I think they are poison. Dr. Smirich is a bad doctor. I just discovered that there has been an unauthorized biography written about me titled "THE TROUBLE WITH IGOR" that will be published by SLAVE LABOR GRAPHICS. You can find it here: http://w3t.org/?u=gxi which is a shortened link to the ten mile long www.amazon.com URL. I don't think I look anything like the painting on the cover. The artist did do a good job on "Wiggler" my octopus friend (he's the stylish little goober on my head).

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My Interests

I enjoy not freezing too death in the summer and making friends that don't betray me until they at least get to know me. So far my best friend is a little octopus I found. I like days that I don't meet vampires.

I'd like to meet:

Whoever created me, and beat them to death, or Nichola tesla & Carl Jung to see if they can fix me. Or Gilles De Rais so he can murder me.

Music:

I like the bands I’ve met on this site: GIANT ROBOTS and AQUABATS rule! I like MARAZINE (but I’m think I’m related to their troll) If Cloris Leachman was a band, I’d walk a mile just to stand in her garbage. Sort of like the lyrics to TOUGH ENOUGH: “I would walk two miles on my, hands and knees, ain't no doubt about it, baby, it's you I aim to please” but instead of pleasing her, I’d stand in her garbage. No one wants Hunchback Igor to “please” them. I like the theremin. It is one of the earliest fully electronic musical instruments. Invented in 1919 by Russian Lev Sergeivitch Termen (also Termin, later gallicized to Léon Theremin), the theremin is unique in that it requires no physical contact in order to produce music and was, in fact, the first musical instrument designed to be played without being touched. The instrument consists of a box with two projecting radio antennas around which the user moves his or her hands to play. I like things that I don't have to touch because the (useually) won't hurt me.

Movies:

I like that movie with Occident, Leland Stanford's horse, the first movie star.It was concieved in when 1872, Leland Stanford approached Eadweard James Muybridge, a British-born photographer, to ask his assistance in proving a theory: that horses, while trotting, have at one point all four hooves simultaneously off the ground. Muybridge agreed to snap some pictures to determine if this was true.The project was interrupted, however, after Muybridge murdered his wife's lover, Maj. Henry Larkyns, by shooting him point blank at a party in Calistoga. (A jury decided that the killing was justified, and Muybridge walked away from the trial a free man.)In 1877, using cameras placed at intervals along a racetrack, Muybridge photographed one of Stanford's prize horses, Occident. The exposures were obtained with the use of a super-fast shutter that was triggered by a trip wire, and the results proved that the theory was correct. Later, Muybridge increased the number of cameras he was using, developed a more sophisticated triggering device for the shutter and began photographing other kinds of animals and humans.To view the rapid sequence of images in a way that simulated movement, Muybridge invented a motion-picture projector, the zoopraxiscope, in 1879. The stop-action photos were reproduced using paint on a glass disc that rotated to create the illusion of movement.I like that one, because it was made by a murderer.I like Jan Svankmajer films; Alice, Faust, Conspirators of Pleasure. F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, Faust, Last Laugh. The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka. I was on an episode of Miami Vice and Sweden's hit series "Oh, Where's my Volvo?" I think I am an Ed Wood production.John Carpenter was great until the he did Escape From L.A.; there was no turning back after that's been a dud. Actually, after 1988's They Live he's just been dropping celluloid stink bombs.I love movies about gorillas. I love King Kong... the original. The new King Kong is the "English Patient" of CGI giant ape films; in that it is a long, painful, boring death.There are many wasteful things in the world: SUVs, Styrofoam containers, all-you-can-eat buffets. Against those resource-depleting and environment-damaging dangers, spending over $200 million to make a three-hour remake of a remake about a massive gorilla who falls in love with a blonde before trashing an Art Deco simulacrum of New York (which looks more like modern day Las Vegas, than depression era NYC) seems like petty change. However, wasteful it remains. Was the slowly blooming romance on board the ship, which heavily cribs scenes from Titanic supposed to be taken as straight on drama or a weird inside joke? Bloated and overly long. Jackson has stated that the original is his favorite film. It is possible to love something too death. Boo! But I digress.I loved Peter Jackson's the "Frighteners" and I think he was replaced with an effects happy, stoned on Hobbits Jean-Luc Godard Pod-person/replica after filming on that wrapped. Bigger does not = Better; just ask the obese man, going in for his third, quadruple bypass.Larry Cohen's a big influence. Who doesn't want to be Q: The Winged Serpent or writhing in the basement "Alien Jesus" from God Told Me To?I like the internet porn by that guy who hires bad, would be adult film stars to pretend "they actually thought this was a calendar shoot." You know the guy who is in love with his own shoes? Does that count?1977 was a very good year:* Annie Hall (1977), 93 minutes, D: Woody Allen* Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), 135 minutes, D: Steven Spielberg* The Goodbye Girl (1977), 110 minutes, D: Herbert Ross* Saturday Night Fever (1977), 119 minutes, D: John Badham* Star Wars (1977), 121 minutes, D: George LucasThe Marx Brothers made my favorite films.

Television:

I was at the 1939 World's Fair to "Hear - and -See Radio: In the World of Tomorrow. We watched news broadcasts and boxing matches. Did they ever make another one?

Books:

The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff The Tao of Pooh is a book comparing the ways of Pooh and his friends to Taoism. The author, Benjamin Hoff, tells this story with three differnent views. It holds stories of Taoism ways, excerpts from Pooh stories by A.A. Milne and him sitting and talking to Pooh himself. My favorite parts of this book were any that included the original Pooh stories. I felt I was able to get closer to the characters. I also liked when I was able to piece together how the ways of Tao and Pooh fit. One more thing I liked was the fact that this book made me think about things in a differnt perspective. It gave me a headache. The game of toss between the stories will boggle your brain. It goes from classic A.A. Milne stories to Taoist lengends to the author talking with Pooh himself. Actually, I just like Pooh. Benjamin Hoff's kind of "a finger pointing at the moon" and this allegorical attempt never gets the honey jar off its nose. Why'd I list this as my favorite book?

Heroes:

Anyone who has never harmed, or planed on harming me. I also like: Mary and Elizabeth Chulkhurst, the Biddenden MaidsThe Chevalier d'EonLucia Zarate, the Puppet-womanLionel, the Lion-Faced ManJack Earle, the Texas GiantCarl Unthang, the Armless FiddlerGeneral Tom ThumbKrao, the Darwin's Missing LinkThe Scottish BrothersSara Baartma, the Hottentot VenusEng and ChangJohnny EckQuasimodoGrace McDaniels, the Mule-Faced WomanJulia PastranaJo-Jo, the Dog-Faced BoyPrince Randian, the Human CatarpillarSimon Metz aka SchlitzieViolet and Daisy HiltonZip the "What Is It?"Maximo and Bartola, the ancient Aztec childrenThe Wild Men of Borneoand the Elephant man

My Blog

Weirdly Word of Strange Eggs interview up at the PULSE

..There is an interview with myself and Steve Ahlquist up at the PULSE: Weirdly World of Strange Eggs interview up at the PULSEhttp://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_t opic;f=36;t=006497...
Posted by Hunchback on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:32:00 PST

Get a sneak peek at the second Igor book at Comic-Con San Diego

Stop by the SLG booth and get a first look at the new Igor book: IGOR: FIXED BY FRANKENSTEINS from July 25-29 at the San Diego Comic-Con.Stop by and say hi to writer Chris Reilly and Eisner nominated ...
Posted by Hunchback on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:56:00 PST

The Weirdly World of Strange Eggs

My new book "The Weirdly World of Strange Eggs" from Amaze Ink/SLG Publishing is now available for pre-order from Diamond comic's Previews and Amazon.com. This is my first book that's ever received an...
Posted by Hunchback on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:54:00 PST

Reilly & Sime Pocast post Eisner judging interview

Here's a not so short like to mine and James Simes' podcast interview. It was fun and I was shocked at how stupid I "didn't" sound: http://media.libsyn.com/media/kryptographik/Kryptographik001 2.mp3 I...
Posted by Hunchback on Thu, 31 May 2007 03:14:00 PST

New 4 star Igor review at Comiccritique.com

There's a new Igor review up at: http://www.comiccritique.com/st/grevSt497.htmlThe Trouble With IgorPosted 18 Nov 2006Writer: Christopher P. ReillyArtist: Gus FinkPublisher: Slave Labor Graphics 4.00 ...
Posted by Hunchback on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:31:00 PST

First page of IGOR: FIXED BY FRANKENSTEINS

Ever wonder how a book like THE TROUBLE WITH IGOR is written? Here's page one from the sequel.The Trouble With Igor: Fixed by FrankensteinsBy Chris Reilly & Gus FinkPage one1.1We are outside of the vi...
Posted by Hunchback on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:05:00 PST

Igor at Hot Topic

THE TROUBLE WITH IGOR is now on sale at Hot Topic, for a scant $4.95. ...
Posted by Hunchback on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:05:00 PST

MUNGBEING.COM Interview

Here's an interview I did at one of my favorite new sites: Mungbeing: Inside the mind of Christopher P. Reilly. I had a lengthy chat with Mark Givens about such pleasant subjects as getting shot, wis...
Posted by Hunchback on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 06:42:00 PST

The trouble with igor at Ain't it Cool News

AIN'T IT COOL NEWS HAS NO TROUBLE WITH IGOR (REVIEW)THE TROUBLE WITH IGORSlave Labor GraphicsTHE TROUBLE WITH IGOR is like hitching a ride through a madmanâs dream. Itâs a silent, stream of consciou...
Posted by Hunchback on Sat, 27 May 2006 11:43:00 PST

CastleFreak week 3

As promised, another weekly, two weeks late, translated CASTLEFREAK from Spanish to English, so you can see how other Castle Freaks live. I will post one strip each week. Or a week late. ...
Posted by Hunchback on Sat, 21 Jan 2006 02:32:00 PST