The Impeachment of President Twist

The Impeachment of President Twist

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Storm Warnings

1st edition, February 1986, Pullman, Washington. 50 copies, white cover, enlarged digest size.

2nd edition, February 1986, Pullman, Washington. 30 copies, white cover, enlarged digest size.

3rd edition, 1990, Seattle, Washington : Starhead Comix. 17 x 13 cm. Color covers.

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

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

The nationally distributed Starhead version reprinted the 1980s story "Downtime Laff Riot" and a maze not found in the original edition.

My initials follow me around. I was born in Spokane, Washington. SW. I live in Southwest Washington. SW. Storm Warnings. SW.

I'm not particularly fond of this comic, especially the Rainmaker story. Oddly, it seems to me that out of all my comix, this one is the most acceptable to fans of conventional comic books.

Trivia:

P. 3-4: Mr. Wright also appeared in Delayed Stress Syndrome Funnies.

P. 13: Mukey and porcupines. It doesn't get much better than this, one of the few bright and happy spots in this book. Notice Mukey has a Max Fleischer character type of nose here. He was still under construction.

P. 23: Hey, isn't that ... Brad Foster in that crowd? Why, yes, I think it is!

Delayed Stress Syndrome Funnies

Apparently part of this comic was drawn when I still lived in Seattle and the remainder was finished after I moved back to Olympia, yet again but for the last time, in mid-1982. The first edition carries as the place of imprint, "Olympia & Seattle, Washington."

It was definitely printed in Olympia. The printshop was run by a local big fish in small pond, a conservative Republican who ran his own weekly newspaper. His employees had a pretty low opinion of this here comic and let me know they thought it was a complete waste of their energy. It wasn't the only time I've had a printer cast asparagus at my work while accepting my money.

However, in this case there was a very unique factor. I think I ordered something like 50 copies and here's what I got for the price: 48 copies of the covers, and 273 complete sets of the guts! Someone goofed in my favor. Unfortunately, all their printing was pretty crappy. But for the first five editions all I had to do was print a new cover as I could afford to print.

1st edition, October or November 1982, Olympia & Seattle, Washington, 48 copies, creme or goldenrod cover, enlarged digest size.

2nd edition, January 1983, Olympia, Washington, 64 copies, yellow cover, enlarged digest size.

3rd edition, May 1983, Olympia, Washington, 68 copies. blue cover, enlarged digest size.

4th edition, February 1984, Pullman, Washington, 50 copies, green cover, enlarged digest size.

5th edition, May 1984, Pullman, Washington, 43 copies, salmon cover, enlarged digest size.

Print-on-demand, 1996, unknown number of copies, regular digest size.

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

The main story is pretty pretentious, but I did enjoy writing the way the dialogue made transitions from one panel to another. The idea of a mentally unstable President making a deliberate silly face in a public speech actually became reality later in the 1980s when old Ron the Con did precisely that.

Omnia Mutantur and Scrap Race to Acropolis were later published as individual minicomix by One Man Studio (Chris Bors), Ithaca, New York.