Buttons - Libraries - 2005

Reverse side stamped: OCLC 2005

Folkomix

Folkomix was a term I invented that pretty much fell flat with my comix comrades. Brad Foster even created a minicomic making fun of it. I later came up with "obscuro" and that seemed to stick with a particular type of self-published comic.

In 1985 I made three printings of this catalog, a total of 16 copies. The entire thing was compiled the old-fashioned way. No computers. Only index cards and a typewriter.

Washington State University has since split the comix collection into subgroups. This particular list represents the entire collection as of 1985, combining the classic undergrounds that already existed in a dusty box hidden away in the Rare Books section plus the comix that poured in when I sounded the call to the Newave network.

In the 1990s I input the bibliographic entries into the WLN database. Hence the notations. They can still be found in the WSU catalog, but I don't know how many of them migrated to OCLC when WLN was absorbed into that utility.

There are also two supplements to this catalog. I'm not sure if the binding will permit me to scan them.