What wonders Motter and Rivoche might have conjured up if they’d continued working together on this very Eighties, 'new wave' designer comic book on the theories of psychetecture. He is staring out at us from deep shadow in front of the retro-future city of his dreams, now the city of his nightmares, its towering, inhuman skyscrapers swathed in arcing searchlights. Our first glimpse revealed only his long raincoat, eyeless round spectacles and bald head, like some cracked Le Corbusier. I was so struck by their first iconic promotional poster, I had it framed on my walls for years.
Urban living takes its toll of many of us, but what does an architect do when the very city he has designed drives its inhabitants insane? As its creator, wouldn’t he become the maddest of all? Canadian imagineers Dean Motter and Paul Rivoche unleashed Mister X, their architect turned enigmatic anti-hero, in 1983.
'This burg’s produced more freaks and weirdos than any other city, old or new…'
