Whatever Happened to Gary Davis?

Way back when, in the fall of 1986, I found a copy of a black & white comic book, entitled "The Starjongleur Collection",

on the shelf, at The Silver Snail and I was impressed!

Gary Davis, the artist and publisher, was an accomplished talent and a pretty fair writer, it was a fun read and when the second volume arrived, a couple of months later, I bought it too.

There was a strong "European" flavour to the art and the story lines, tending toward the Moebius, aka Jean Giraud, style and the detail in the artwork was, at times, almost overwhelming.

What I find astonishing, in rereading these books today, is Gary's grasp of empty space because, although there are passages of intricate detail in almost every panel, there are also expanses of untouched white (or black) in them too.

In the years that followed his two self published books, Gary contributed stories to the Dark Horse anthology, 

Dark Horse Presents:

A lot of those stories were about Delia & Celia and they seemed to be set in the same world as the stories that Gary had drawn for his self published books.

The stories appeared, on and off for something like twenty issues, from #21, in May of 1988, to #39, in May of 1990 

but "Comic Vine" says he made twenty appearences in the title?

War World!

Was a stand alone story and a one-shot issue, also from the good folks at Dark Horse.

Published in February, 1989, it is also firmly set, in Gary's private universe and could easily have been intended for a never published issue of The Starjongleur Collection

Sometime after that final appearance of Delia & Celia, i Dark Horse Presents, Gary Davis slipped away and quietly disappeared.

Even today, with the amazing amount of data available on the Internet, he is an enigma.

I wonder where he is and what he is doing today.

Before I go, I would just like to thank him though, for the hours of enjoyment his work has given me and the inspiration that he was and is.