Limbolympia

1st edition, January 1983, Olympia, Washington, 50 copies, ivory cover, enlarged digest size.

2nd edition, March 1983, Olympia, Washington, 56 copies, goldenrod cover, enlarged digest size.

Print-on-demand reprint series, 1994, McCleary, Washington, regular digest size.

1st Danger Room Reprint edition, July 2005, 5 copies, yellow cover, regular digest size.

So named because I was back in Oly 1982-1983 and not feeling all that great about being trapped in that city, yet again. I was holding down a temporary job in my field after having just gotten married and wanted something permanent. Hence in Limbo in Olympia.

Trivia:

I think the Darwin Corksniffer story might've been born in a writing class with instructor Peter Elbow during my senior year at The Evergreen State College 1978-1979. I revived the idea and made it into a comic.

"The 13 O'clock Movie" story has the feel of purging a bunch of stuff.

Apparently Joe Stalin knew a lot more English than he let on. I once made a constructive suggestion involving Stalin's stuffed corpse to the Russians via my comic The Tall Elf.

The D.B. Cooper story is true. The case remains unsolved although several strong candidates (all of them now dead) have emerged in the last decade.

There have been a lot of reprints over the years of some parts of this book, but Found Loose in the Mail was made into a minicomic of it's own by Hal Hargit in 1987.

Fun in Acapulco

A weird "half-comic" named in honor of the movie starring Elvis, who happens to be a character in the first story.

1st edition, September 1982, Olympia, Washington, 30 copies, pink cover, enlarged digest size.

2nd edition, August 1984, Alamogordo, New Mexico, 30 copies, white cover, enlarged digest size.

1996, print-on-demand, regular digest size.

1st Danger Room Reprint Edition, July 2005, 5 copies, pink cover, regular digest size.

The story "Tomorrow is Yesterday" was reprinted in Portland Underground Comix # 3 (Portland, Or. : Pastime Pub. Co., 1983)

I have always liked the cover of this one. The rest of the comic comes across as sort of a crazy quilt of ideas linked together with a fraying string of consciousness.

Inside back cover, panel 4. That's a self-portrait.

The back cover is entirely true, except for maybe the final panel.

Cryogenic Comix # 8

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

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

The centerspread includes preliminary drawings of Chuck and Elma, a couple I used as characters in some comic I can't recall right off the top of my cranial orb-- it was in 1982 or 1983.