As a kid, I was a huge Spider-Man fan. In the late 1970s, he often faced off against the Rhino, a muscle-bound brute that had a thuggish charm about him. For whatever reason, I liked him.
The rhino is also one of the reasons that Valley resident and acclaimed comics artist Todd McFarlane, will appear at the Phoenix Zoo on Saturday, Oct. 4, for a celebration of “Comic Conservation,” the zoo’s new art exhibit.
“I’d like to go to Africa someday, because the rhinoceros is the animal that, since I was 6, is the most fascinating animal on the planet. It’s the dinosaur that forgot to die, right? Others died, but it was stubborn enough to stick around. (My wife) reached out to the zoo and somehow managed to get it so I could go and pet their rhino and feed it. I thought … who needs to go to Africa when I can go down the street? So (the zoo) did a terrific favor for us,” McFarlane says…