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Crock was created in 1975 by Bill Rechin, Don Wilder and Brant Parker, and remains the greatest and longest-running parody of the Foreign Legion classic, “Beau Geste.” The genius of the off-the-wall strip is that it manages to turn the established conventions of the Foreign Legion melodrama, as well as our own social norms, upside down.
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Crock. Buy a Print of this Comic. Load more comics. Read the Crock comic strip from November 17, 2024, and check out other Crock comics by Bill Rechin.
Crock is an American comic strip created by Bill Rechin and Brant Parker depicting the French Foreign Legion. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, the strip began in 1975 and ended in May 2012. As of January 2012, it appeared in 250 newspapers in 14 countries. [1]
Read the Crock comic strip from September 20, 2022, and check out other Crock comics by Bill Rechin.
Crock is the brainchild of Brant Parker, Bill Rechin and Don Wilder. Parker had already made a name in syndicated comics with The Wizard of Id, which he did in collaboration with Johnny Hart (B.C.). Rechin had experience in comics with an obscure strip called Pluribus, which took place during America's founding years.
This book is great! This was one of my favorite comic strips from when I was a kid. I am glad there is finally a compilation book of Crock strips available for purchase; been looking for one for years.
After more than 37 years, the "Crock" comic strip by Bill Rechin -- and, for a year, by his son and son-in-law -- came to an end on Sunday, May 20. Rechin was a great friend of the National Press Club, along with his writing partner, Don Wilder.
Today’s column explores the Foreign Legion-themed strip Crock. What began as a parody of the 1939 adventure film Beau Geste has evolved into a haphazard collection of scribbles that matches The Wizard of Id‘s aching ineptitude scrawl-for-scrawl.
William J. Rechin (August 20, 1930 – May 21, 2011), better known as Bill Rechin, was an American cartoonist who created the comic strips Out of Bounds and Crock. [ 1 ] Born in Buffalo, New York , Rechin studied art at Buffalo's Albright Academy of Art, where he met his wife, Trish.