Cryogenic Comix # 6

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

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

There were two short comix I drew in the early 1980s: Fun in Acapulco and Pacemaker Defect. I can tell some of these drawings were prep work for stories in one or both of those titles. Arnie Wormwood shows up on 3 pages here. The gentleman with the beard and glasses is Dean True, who was once a neighbor to one of Ernest Borgnine's ex-wives. Page 7 has, for reasons I have long since forgotten, drawings of Woodrow Wilson and Herbert Hoover. That's Al Capone on the bottom of page 6.

Cranium Frenzy # 4

1st edition, spring 1983, Olympia, Washington. 74 copies, cherry cover, enlarged digest size.

Available as a print-on-demand title, 1996, regular digest size.

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

Easily the most unusual issue of this series to date.

To start with, the cover was a linoleum block print using an oil-base color. I remember all those covers hanging to dry from clothes lines in the studio, making the room look like a used car lot. The subsequent printings did not have original block print covers.

The other unique part of this issue had to with the contributors. Nine other people had artwork in this comic: Robin Coder-Willis, Lee Norton, Anina Sill, Kevin Sill, Dean True, Jon Turnbow, Petrina Walker, Stevie Webb, and Kevin Wildermuth.

Kevin W. created the stamp seen in the upper right-hand corner of the cover. Except for Turnbow, all the other artists in the book were not involved with cartooning. In this comic he used the name "T. Warp." Jon is better known today under the name Strongbow.

For various reasons, I'll just be scanning and posting my own work here.

In a lot of ways my 1983 story also fits our current era.

Bezango WA 985 #5

Rough draft ed., July 18, 2002, 2 copies on white (as opposed to wheat).

1st ed., July 21, 2002, 30 copies (20 red, 10 yellow)

2nd ed., rev. Aug. 14, 2002, 30 copies (3 blue, 18 pink, 9 red)

Print-on-demand for a brief time starting Jan. 23, 2003.

1st Danger Room Reprint Ed., June 2005, 5 copies (1 red, 1 green, 1 yellow, 1 blue, 1 pink)

Trivia: I can't remember why the 2nd ed. is revised. Page 5: The TV station was inspired by a little Mom and Pop outfit that broadcast on the other side of the county out of Ocean Shores, Washington about 20 years ago. Page 6: When I revised the 2nd ed. I apparently missed a typo. The second paragraph should start off with: Perky is always waiting for apologies that will never come. Page 8: In college I had a roommate who wore a robe just like this. Page 10: "Mostly Butter" has long been a business dream of mine. Anyone out there willing to invest about 3 million-- please contact me. Page 14: This fellow is sort of composite of about three men I knew. The guy in real life with the bowling league mother didn't brag about the Acuff connection, instead he made it a funny running joke. Page 18: Notice the Washington State University t-shirt.

I am not a vegetarian and I like my steaks well done. Burned.