The Bogie Man

The Bogie Man is an occasional comics series created by writers John Wagner and Alan Grant and artist Robin Smith. It features Francis Forbes Clunie, a Scottish mental patient who suffers from the unusual delusion that he is Humphrey Bogart, or rather a composite of the characters he played in his films.

Related Topics:
Comics - John Wagner - Alan Grant - Robin Smith - Scottish - Humphrey Bogart

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His first appearance was in a four-issue miniseries published by Fat Man Press in 1989. Clunie, newly escaped from a Glasgow mental hospital, stumbles on an attempt by small-time criminals to fence some stolen turkeys. Associating the "big birds" with The Maltese Falcon, Clunie drags a gullible waitress and the nearest convenient "fat man" into proceedings, until, pusued by the criminals and the police and quoting dialogue from a variety of Bogart films, he demolishes half of Glasgow's Central station.

Related Topics:
Fat Man Press - 1989 - Glasgow - The Maltese Falcon

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Two stories followed in 1991. One, "The Chinese Syndrome", drawn by Cam Kennedy, was serialised in Toxic! but was left incomplete when the comic folded. Another, "The Manhattan Project", illustrated in colour by Smith, followed Clunie to New York City as he rescued Vice President Dan Quayle from an entirely imaginary assasination plot. "The Chinese Syndrome" was later reworked and completed as "Chinatoon", a four-issue series from Atomeka Press in 1993 with art by Smith. A fourth story, "Return to Casablanca", was serialised in the Judge Dredd Megazine in 2005.

Related Topics:
1991 - Cam Kennedy - Toxic! - New York City - Dan Quayle - Atomeka Press - 1993 - Judge Dredd Megazine - 2005

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