I was fascinated by the ideas of sleeplessness and somnambulism.' Hardboiled detective stories and silent films were also an influence, and after privately working out details of the story and premise of Mister X for a year, Motter turned to Paul Rivoche to illustrate the work. In the early 1990s, a CD-ROM computer-animated version of Volume Two, issues seven and eight, was created by the now-defunct Kinetic Opera Company.Īccording to creator Dean Motter, 'The germ of the idea goes back to my college days, in journals, in the writing that I was doing back then. The series published early work by comic artists who would later emerge as important alternative cartoonists, including Jaime Hernandez, Gilbert Hernandez, Mario Hernandez, Seth, Shane Oakley and D'Israeli.

Created by album and book cover designer Dean Motter, it was developed for a year in close collaboration with comic artist and illustrator Paul Rivoche, whose series of poster illustrations stirred up great interest in the project. Mister X was a series of comic books first published in 1983–1990 by Canadian company Vortex Comics.

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