Hip Flask | 1989

HIP FLASK: THE LONG HOT SUMMER was a resounding success, which still sells well in hardcover and softcover collections to this day. The critical acclaim Loeb and Sale received for their work on the book paved the way for their work on BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN and SUPERMAN FOR ALL SEASONS. Tim Sale is currently in contract negotiations with Active Images for a 48 page MYSTERY CITY one shot to be written by crime novelist Greg Rucka.

"I can still smell the musty basement at my grandparents' where, as a boy of ten, I discovered a box, sealed tight, hidden under the wooden stairs. I knew, without being told, that I'd find something special inside, and when I finally got the box open, I saw how right I was.

"Hip was not only bigger, badder, bolder than all the other lurid pulp heroes of the time, his stories all had a special quality, a sort of larger-and-yet-lower-than-life power that was both thrilling and intoxicating to my pre-adolescent brain. Hip strode through tales of mayhem and intrigue with a swagger that only a two-ton, trenchcoat-wearing, big-ass, gun-toting, luscious-babe-baiting pachyderm can, and he continues to have a hold over me today like no other hero before or since.

"It's an honor to be asked again to chronicle Hip's exploits. I only hope I am still worthy of the challenge."

— Tim Sale