Songs Illustrated: Diarrhea Planet’s “Bob Dylan’s Grandma” by Benjamin Marra

In Songs Illustrated, we enlist our favorite comic book artists and cartoonists to translate songs into sequential art.
Benjamin Marra and Diarrhea Planet have no love of subtlety.
Marra’s Traditional Comics label embraces themes of “power, individualism, a personal code of justice, justice, the right to carry a gun, the right to fight, imposing your will upon the world, revenge, lust, sexy, desire, drug use, prostitution and gambling.” This formula for sequential art testosterone reached a new zenith in last year’s Terror Assaulter: O.M.W.O.T., the best ‘80s exploitation pornographic action film that’s actually a comic book. American Blood, a collection of self-published and out-of-print material, will also debut from Fantagraphics this fall.