In Pictopia is the legendary comic created in 1986， written by the era’s most adventurous mainstream comics writer and drawn by a bevy of indie cartoonists—helmed by Don Simpson， with Mike Kazaleh， Pete Poplaski， and Eric Vincent。 Presented here for the first time， scanned from the original line art and full-color painted boards， in an appropriately oversized format。 Pictopia is the allegorical city inhabited by old， forgotten， but once famous and iconic comics characters， now considered pitiable has-beens by the popular new comics characters who are cheerfully and inevitably taking their places in the pop culture pantheon of celebrity。 It is both a paean to timeless， beloved comics characters and a scathing critique of the then-contemporary comics sub-culture。