Spike The Terror of Power

By Allan Angel

August 8, 2022

It was 1996, and I was very artistically inclined to do something different. I wanted to write what kids wanted to read in comic books. My cousin Hilda for one reason or another always hanged around my studio.

She was 8 at the time and we would have dance parties playing Madonna songs along with my other cousins. We had our own Madonna fan club and she was responsible for getting me my second set of Madonna polaroids with that entertaining interaction at Madonna’s Las Vegas show.

Spike a comic book written by an eight year old girl. By Allan Angel and Hilda Acasio. An irreverent comic book for adults only co written by an eight year old girl.

G-Rated

I wanted a G-rated comic book, but I didn’t know how. I had gotten used to the adult type independent comic books such as those from Vortex comics like Black Kiss by Howard Chaykin. Ironically, my bible teacher had a last name like him but she authored Christian books, 2 of the characters dedicated to me and my sister.

I had changed my style of traditional Superman type of comics to adult, because I knew that was where creativity flourished. Even at a young age, there was something dubious and limiting doing commercial comic books. I wanted to get away from adult material. Ironically, again, I was 13 at the time, but for some reason or another the comic book store owners thought of me as their peers. I was always around older people, because they had more intellect.

Hilda reminded me of me, because she had the same intelligence that I had. I asked her to write a comic book for me and out of the blue she just started talking and I jotted them down. I think she needed money for Taco Bell and she was always asking for money.

Original design by my then 8 year old cousin. By Allan Angel and Hilda Acasio. An irreverent comic book for adults only co written by an eight year old girl.

NC-17

What transpired was some of the most graphically intense writing I have ever witnessed. Cocaine Bombs, drugs, gun control, everything in the media she watched came to light in this stream of consciousness talking or… writing.

Spike is what resulted. Every word was entirely constructed out of an 8 year old mind’s imagination. I had thought I was different writing adult material as a minor but this proved otherwise. Perhaps it was where we were raised that resulted in this amazing piece of writing and I would say “art”.

The comic book is now available on Etsy and if you order $20 worth of merchandise, receive a retro print of a Polaroid inspired by several of the original Polaroids I received from Madonna.

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