Dick Hymen

Dick Hymen, Lovelorn Detective, in ‘Hard-Boiled Romance’

Two pages; drawn 1993; published in Young Lust #8, Last Gasp© 1993 Robert Triptow

Between surgeries after my appendix burst, I drew this in the one weekend I was able to lean against the drawing table.

Drawing for this publication was strange. I kept remembering having been a teenager with one of the few copies of Young Lust #1 in all of Utah and thinking, “I wanna draw for this comic book.” I fulfilled my little dream.

Dick Hymen and his girlfriend reminded me of someone, but I couldn’t figure out who. I already knew about Dick Hyman, the ’40s big band leader, but that wasn’t it. Finally it came to me. Dick and Lucretia were Jay Leno and Madonna. Br-r-r.