HALFTONE HEROES
Featuring the art of Matthew Dunn & William Henry Fletcher

The Cosmic Commander VS The Midnight Menace, Matthew Dunn

Halftone Heroes is an exhibition featuring, and paying tribute to, the long lost work of wartime artist William Henry Fletcher (WHF).  With the majority of his original art destroyed shortly after his death, and any publications featuring his work being long out of print, this is a rare opportunity to journey into the world of WHF.  The exhibition will showcase WHF’s superhero creations along with artwork that he produced in notebooks and on scraps of paper while fighting in WW2.  Matthew Dunn provides his own visual tribute these lost heroes, and also presents a series of comic book pages telling what little is known about the life of WHF.  The exhibition opens at 6pm on Thursday the 28th of January.

“He created a universe and hid it in a shoebox” – Elizabeth Fletcher (WHF’s mother)

“It is a world of false hopes and silly costumes” – William Henry Fletcher

“I guess some things just aren’t meant to be” – Marvin Bernstein (former Hanna Barbera producer)

Whatever happened to William Henry Fletcher?  Find out soon.

The Light, Matthew Dunn

Matthew Dunn is a Melbourne-based comic creator/illustrator. His work has appeared in Lonely Monsters (graphic novel), the Overland Literary Journal, Garish Zow Comics (RIP) and other places. Heís currently producing the weekly webcomic LM2 which can be found here. When not playing with toy robots Matthew can also be found working on a new comic book series featuring the characters created by WHF.

The Owl And The Pussy Cat
34 Swan Street, Richmond
28th January to 21st February
Opening at 6pm

See more of Matthew Dunn’s work here