Outside In # 2

1st edition, 1983, 150 copies on white cardstock.

2nd edition, December 1983, 20 copies on white cardstock.

3rd edition, 1984. Seattle, Washington : Starhead Comix, regular stock white paper.

Doug Holverson, John Howard, David Miller, Robert Stump, Robin Coder-Willis, Steve Willis, Clay Geerdes.

That great cover shows Holverson in, I believe, his beloved Studebaker. David Miller's self-portrait looks like it could've been drawn during the Renaissance and it remains one of my favorites in the series. Robin's demonstrates just how provincial we native Washingtonians can be, tucked up here in this corner, walled off by water, mountains and rain. Morty obviously has little patience for T.S. Eliot.

Howard and Stump were two prolific Newave regulars during the early-mid 1980s. John produced some of the funniest wage slave comix I've encountered, and Robert was very active in publishing, including reprinting my Sasquatch Comix series.

I met Geerdes and Miller in 1989 on a visit to the Bay Area. As you can see by the photos in the Clay Geerdes Scrapbook post, David looks pretty much like the way he portrayed himself, but Clay had a more creative self-image I must say. Oddly, to me Clay's self-portrait matched his voice, but not his face.

Lynn Hansen Photos, San Diego 1983

Here are some photographs Lynn Hansen took at the San Diego Comic Convention in 1983. None of them are marked so I'm taking a guess.

You fellow old folks are welcome to hop in and help me identify some faces. Brad Foster, Dave Miller, and Clay Geerdes are the only three here I've met in person.

Top: Valentino, David Miller, Par Holman, Clay Geerdes.
Middle and Bottom: Clay holding court.

Left to right: Brad Foster, Par Holman, Dave Miller, guy with hands in mouth is Steve Lafler, and the fellow holding a drink behind him is Valentino. The rest I cannot identify.

Top: Robert Williams
Bottom: Trina Robbins

Top: Brad Foster on the right.

Bottom: Gerard Santi, Robert Williams, Don Donahue, Ron Turner, Trina Robbins, Warren Greenwood.

David E. Miller, one of the greatest Newave cartoonists ever, holding a Comix Wave spec sheet. Of this photo Lynn wrote: "The spotting process I used did not work as well as I had hoped. Oh well No one else will get a copy of the David Miller print, only two exist and that is it."

Top and bottom: The one and only Brad W. Foster, the undisputed most prolific artist to come out of the Newave. That Texas star behind him reminds me that if you read up on the U.S.-Mexican War, Texas was actually founded by illegal immigrants. Holy irony, Batman! I need to ask, is that Dave Patterson in the background of the bottom photo?

Clay Geerdes Scrapbook

Bill Kossack's Clay Geerdes Website inspired me to dig through my own bits of paper around here and assemble this scrapbook. The concluding memorial I scanned was originally published in, I think, Cartoon Loonacy and perhaps White Buffalo Gazette. It pretty much ties the whole scrapbook together.

Clay Geerdes Website

Fellow Newaver David Miller informed me that Clay Geerdes' nephew, Bill Kossack, has started a webpage in memory of the man who made our crazy network possible.

I contacted Bill and he added:

"I have an area on my site titled "Underground Friends". Everyone that was connected to comix and knew Clay are invited to submit to it. It's really just a place where someone can submit whatever they want about themselves, how they got into comix, their favorite memories, what they are doing now, etc. They can send me their favorite pics to post with their submission. It doesn't need to be about Clay entirely, but mostly a place where people who were associated with comix can post whatever about their lives.
I'm going to update the web site this weekend with more additions and another update on the weekend of Jan 8th. I'm hoping to have all the Comix World newletters posted by then. The biography section is undergoing a more organized change."

Here's the link to website: https://claygeerdesinfo.com/Home_Page.php

Lynn Hansen's Truck

Comix collector Lynn Hansen owned a late 1950s model pickup that was slightly customized and pretty eye-catching. The excellent cartoonist and fellow Newaver David Miller made a cover drawing of this vehicle for Lynn's minicomic Sacratomato Comics # 1 (1987).

Lynn was driving this truck during his final visit to McCleary, probably sometime in 1991-92. For about a week every car guy in McCleary made a point to drive by my place to gaze upon this fine truck with Alabama plates.

At one point in his week-long stay we drove out to Ocean Shores to try and catch Michael Dowers, but just missed him.

Lynn then left McCleary and headed for Seattle. But his truck broke down in a city between Seattle and Tacoma. When Lynn asked a resident where he was, the answer was "Federal Way." And Lynn replied, "Yes, but what city am I in?"

Anyway, he returned to McCleary later that day with two lights I think he had removed from the hood. The only items he took from his deceased truck. And for some reason he gave them to me.

I rediscovered them in the garage a few days ago. Every piece of junk has some story attached.

Cover scanned and posted with permission from David Miller.