Thursday, February 10, 2011
Retreads 4
1st edition, 1985, Pullman, Washington, 70 copies, cherry cover, enlarged digest size.
1st Danger Room Reprint edition, July 2005, 5 copies, blue cover, enlarged digest size.
In the 2nd half of 1985 I published several comix but didn't release them until the start of 1986. This was one of them.
Trivia:
Pages 10-11: "The Leash" was always one of my favorite short pieces. It originally appeared, I think, in Equinox, a comic with more of a fan audience than a Newave readership.
Page 16: As I recall, the title for this was created by first drawing the background texture and then taping a cut out stencil of the title over it.
The device of using third parties to describe a basically unseen character in an almost documentary way is a convention that has long interested me. Come to think of it, applying nonfiction narrative techniques to comix is something I learned from the undergrounds. If a documentary is well produced, no matter what the topic, I'm much more engaged than watching, say, football or baseball.
Pages 29-31: George Erling, Bruce Chrislip, Jim Ryan, and J.R. Williams are four very silly people.
Labels:
Bruce Chrislip,
Equinox,
George Erling,
J.R. Williams,
Jim Ryan,
John Eades,
Kevin Collier,
Lee Norton,
Morty the Dog,
Retreads,
Three Stooges