Genres: Literature
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Series 1987
Formerly Ronald Lithgow, Senate aide, speechwriter, and the least dynamic of men. But when he had his pudgy, soft body exchanged for on enormously powerful and encrusted with a tough outer covering, he chose to use the opportunity to become an adventurer. His plan: to mount expeditions, dare great things – and write about them to earn his way. His reach often exceeds his grasp, however. Things tend to go wrong for Concrete.
Series 2005
Part man, part… rock? Over seven feet tall and weighing over a thousand pounds, he is known as Concrete but is in reality the mind of one Ronald Lithgow, trapped inside a shell of stone, a body that allows him to walk unaided on the ocean’s floor or survive the crush of a thousand tons of rubble in a collapsed mineshaft…but prevents him from feeling the touch of a human hand. These stories of Concrete are as rich and satisfying as any in comics: funny, heartbreaking, and singularly human. Depths, the first in a series of collections reprinting the classic early Concrete stories along with never-before-collected short stories, includes the Eisner-nominated “Orange Glow” and “Vagabond,” Paul Chadwick’s autobiographical account of a cross-country hitchhiking trip. • “Probably the best comic being published today by anyone, anywhere.”,Harlan Ellison • Paul Chadwick’s Concrete has won five Eisner Awards and three Harvey Awards. • One of GQ’s “20 Graphic Novels You Should Read.”
