Tuesday, July 12, 2011
The Brad W. Foster Checklist : Works in Print, 1972-1994 / compiled by Gary Usher
McCleary, Washington : Steve Willis, 1995. Regular digest size, print-on-demand.
Brad Foster made a deal with the Devil, right? How else can you explain the astounding amount of work as documented by Gary Usher in this bibliography?
In the mid-1990s I was trying to publish and encourage comix researchers to send me manuscripts in order to promote the idea our brand of comix needed to be taken seriously as an academic subject. Bibliographer extraordinaire Gary Usher sent me enough material to produce a few books, but this particular monograph was the most impressive to me of all his lists and indexes. I was also thrilled to make this available as a tribute to a great cartoonist.
Brad has produced an amazing amount of work. I would love to see if some brave bibliographer has the fortitude to update this list to the present day and annotate each entry!