Ten Seconds in the Life of Fenwick Green

Little did I know that when I drew three little panels for Cranium Frenzy # 3, those lines on paper would inspire my brother to write a play called Ten Seconds in the Life of Fenwick Green.

The image was also used on a few posters promoting the play, starting, I think, in 1989. It was also used on a t-shirt.

T-shirts

Actually I've covered the story of the OlyBlog t-shirt earlier this year. But it belongs in the gallery of t-shirts anyway.



Michael Dowers made this t-shirt in the 1980s (I think) using the Starhead Comix logo I drew.



From the 2002 AIE Summer Program, including Bezango WA 985 on stage! The images are from the comic series.

A page from Cranium Frenzy # 3 which was captioned "Three seconds in the life of Rindo Bloch" inspired this play by my brother, Bryan, and the original image was used in the t-shirt.

Cast member Jeff Kingsbury went on to be elected to the Olympia City Council for one term and his name became an Oly household word-- and not exactly in way anyone would choose.












I first drew the image for Woofer the Psychic Dog (co-written by Bryan) back in 1986 and it just keeps living on whether it is performed in New York or Olympia. To publicize the 1988 Oly premiere I created a long banner which spanned 4th Ave. about where the Danger Room is today.

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.

Cryogenic Comix # 14

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

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

Includes more prep work for a wedding invite for a kayaking couple, and a face or two for Cranium Frenzy # 3.

Cryogenic Comix # 13

1st edition, 1998, 15 copies (10 blue, 4 grey, 1 buff), yellow guts, regular digest size.

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

Includes prelims for Cranium Frenzy # 3 and a wedding invitation for a kayaking couple, 1982-1983.

Cryogenic Comix # 12

1st edition, 1998, 15 copies (5 green covers, 10 buff covers, all yellow guts), regular digest size.

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

This issue has some prep work for Cranium Frenzy # 3, a couple very bad attempts at drawing Eisenhower for some unknown reason (the first Prez I can remember), and a "V" is for Visigoth that was set aside for another version but I can't remember right now what the heck publication I submitted the other one to. This memory detail lapse on that last item is probably due to the fact I'm old enough to say Eisenhower is the first President I can remember.

Cryogenic Comix # 11

1st edition, 1998, 15 copies (9 pink, 5 green 1 yellow cover-- all of these with yellow guts), regular digest size.

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

From my notes it looks like the Cryogenic Comix series was published in batches in the last couple months of 1998. #1 was solo, # 2-4 were printed at the same time, and # 5-10 was a slightly later run.

# 11-17 appear to have been published as a batch, and finally # 18 was, for reasons that will be obvious when we get there, released as a solo.

This issue has preliminary drawings for a story I drew for one of Dale Luciano's Dada Gumbo anthology minicomix on page 2.

The centerspread has the finished first page of a tale I never published featuring Morty the Dog and Arnie Wormwood. I think I discarded it for some reason and started over, it looks to be vintage 1982 or 1983. The last two pages have drafts of characters I used in Cranium Frenzy # 3 (1982).