Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Cryogenic Comix # 15







1st edition, 1998, 15 copies, yellow guts, red cover, regular digest size.

1st Danger Room Reprint Edition, June 2005, 5 copies, yellow, regular digest size.

The centerspread has that kayaking couple again, plus another attempt at Eisenhower. I'm guessing I was making a stab at drawing Ike because of a certain panel in Cranium Frenzy # 3 where I quote him: "Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before."

And here's an oddity for you underground comix fans-- I believe the source of that quote for me was from Whole Grains : a Book of Quotations / edited by Art Spiegelman and Bob Schneider, New York : Douglas Links, c1973. It would figure that I tried to draw Ike with a golf club based on a quote I found in book published by D. Links. Heh. Get it? Golf? D. Links? Now do you get it? You do? Then why aren't you laughing? What's that? You say it isn't funny? Oh, never mind.

The inside back cover had a rough drawing of an old door for the studio in my last house. I removed all the panels and replaced them with plexiglass. The result, as one of my aunts laughingly observed, was that "it looked like Hell." OK, so I'm no carpenter.

My current studio, by the way, remains in chaos due to the gas heater leaking water condensation. Once the place is put back together (we're waiting for repair visit # 3 for the final parts replacement) we'll start making hardcopy reprints available. A project still in progress.