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''Fetus-X'' is a controversial weekly Romantic Horror Comic strip written and drawn by Eric Millikin , award-winning American cartoonist and former human anatomy lab Embalmer and Dissectionist .Zabel, Joe ( June 14th , 2004 ). " Cutting Up The Dead: An interview with Eric Millikin ". ''The Webcomics Examiner'' ''Fetus-X'' has been published in newspapers, books, and as a to score with chicks and battle various ghosts, aliens, and monsters. The comic often depicts Profanity , drug use, and Violence as well as communist, satanic, and homosexual themes. The artwork is Mixed Media , combining Expressionist paintings with Found Objects . The text is written in Free Verse . CHARACTERS AND PLOT Typical plots of ''Fetus-X'' comics involve Eric Millikin, the creator of the comic, engaged in activities such as being killed by Vampire hunters, being eaten by a Dinosaur , and sawing off his own arm1 then replacing it with a zombie's. He is often accompanied by Fetus-X, a psychic zombie Fetus floating in a jar of formaldehyde2, and Anal Ho Tep, a resurrected Egyptian Mummy who enjoys Anal Sex and was formerly a Grave Robber . 3 Millikin also has a kitten named Patches which he built by stapling together Roadkill laying around his house and who has a tentacle for a tail. 4 Many of the stories are about Millikin trying to bring Alicia, his fork-throwing Poltergeist Cheerleader girlfriend, back from the dead. One of Millikin's frequent nemeses is El Chupacabra , a goat-sucking Extraterrestrial and masked Mexican professional wrestler. In ancient Egypt, El Chupacabra forced Anal Ho Tep into slave labor for purposes of building the Pyramid s. In contemporary times, the U.S. government maintains a color-coded Chupacabra alert system which was recently raised to metallic magenta. 5 Other characters have included United States President George W. Bush , Areola (a Mermaid ), Satana (a devil girl), Bunny (a research test rabbit), and Jesus (the son of God). HISTORY Millikin outlandishly claims to have began drawing horror comics by age one-and-a-half, when he made crayon drawings of ghosts terrorizing him during toilet-training. By second grade, he was making teachers' birthday cards showing his school burning down captioned "Fuck you." Breithaupt, Christy ('' The first ''Fetus-X'' newspaper strip appeared on '' In the fall of 2002, ''Fetus-X'' became part of the subscription-based online Alternative Comics anthology Serializer , a spin-off of the successful webcomics site Modern Tales . Other comics on Serializer included '' Achewood Sunday Edition '', '' The Magic Whistle '', '' Pup '' and '' Little Laurie Sprinkles ''. In the fall of 2005 ''Fetus-X'' became a free comic on Webcomics Nation . In June 2006, Millikin was interviewed in the book '''', New York: Nantier, Beall, Minoustchine. ISBN 1-56163-465-4. After being offline due to a server crash in April, 2005, Serializer relaunched in October, 2006 under the editorship of Eric Millikin. Fetus-X moved back to Serializer at this time. CRITICAL REACTION In their review of serializer.net, '''', Pg. 23 Since 2000, ''Fetus-X'' has been the target of protest campaigns organized by the has called Milliken a "borderline sociopath."6 ''Fetus-X'' was named one of the best webcomics of 2004 by '' The Webcomics Examiner '', who called it "one of the sharpest political commentaries available. In an era where presidents are treated as messiahs, and questioning the fatherland’s foreign policies is socially unacceptable, Eric shows how necessary it is to yell at the top of your lungs about the madness of it all."7 In 2006, ''Fetus-X'' was nominated for multiple Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards including Outstanding Comic, Outstanding Single Panel Comic, and Outstanding Romantic Comic. It (referred to as "''Foetus-X''") was later disqualified for not meeting the Award's defined genre criteria for romance comics.8 In 2007, ''Fetus-X'' was again nominated for multiple Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards including Outstanding Romantic Comic. It was not disqualified from the romance category in 2007. ''Fetus-X'' was used along with '' Penny Arcade '', '' American Elf '' and '' Questionable Content '' as an example of comics using the web to create "an explosion of diverse genres and styles" in Scott McCloud 's 2006 book '' Making Comics '' McCloud, Scott (2006). '' Making Comics '', New York: Harper Collins Publishers. ISBN 0-06-078094-0. Pg. 227 SIDE PROJECTS Eric Millikin has won awards for his illustrations for major newspapers such as 2005 ). ''Los Angeles City Beat'' REFERENCES SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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