Heidi MacDonald has a great post about a Henry Darger-esque fellow named James Killian Spratt who created a obsessively detailed version of Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars.
In a few short hours, I'll be doing something I've dreamed about my whole life — going to see a movie about John Carter of Mars… I could write a lot about my own perception of Carter's Mars, but what I'm here to do today is introduce you to the boldest, most audacious adaptation of the book, one that is incredibly UN-Disney and very very NSFW. I speak of James Killian Spratt's word-for-word comics adaptation of A Princess of Mars.
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I happened on this site while I was googling for some other Carter information a while ago. I've shown the site to a few people since then and the common reaction is jaw dropping. Who is this guy?
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James Killian Spratt we're told, is a Master Sculptor who lives in North Carolina. He is blind in one eye and is an expert in all things Martian, including Jetan, the game of Martian chess that a few people have actually played in the last 100 years. Spratt has made actual Jetan sets:
The wild, all-naked JOHN CARTER comic Disney does not want you to see (NSFW)
