Ex-Punk Rocker Plays to His True Love: Illustration
Former Apocalypse Hoboken bassist talks about influence, and the future of his comic "One Year in Indiana."
"It's starting to get stinky in here," says Kurt Dinse, drawing in his damp basement studio. He looks up from the sketch he has just drawn of Conrad Lant, America's "smartest death-metal vocalist" and hero in Dinse's original comic book series One Year in Indiana, which he plans to combine into a single volume before next spring. It's a hot, muggy day outside and inside, it's not much better. The fact that Dinse named his website PungentBasementArt.com is no accident. "It stinks down there and that's where I do all my work," he said with a laugh. The venue seems appropriate for a former punk rocker. Dinse was the bass player for Chicago-based Apocalypse Hoboken, a popular punk band that toured globally and signed with with labels Rocco …
