Retreads # 3

1st edition, 1985, Pullman, Washington, 50 copies, yellow cover, enlarged digest size. Not distributed until 1986.

2nd edition, December 1985, Pullman, Washington, 30 copies, pink cover, enlarged digest size. Not distributed until 1986.

3rd edition, November 1986, Coupeville, Washington : Published by Rex Munger. 4 copies, white cover, enlarged digest size.

1st Danger Room Reprint Edition, July 2005, 5 copies, blue cover, enlarged digest size.

Trivia:

Page 34: I still think that is greatest joke ever.

Edgar Allan Poe in McCleary

My brother, Bryan Willis, wrote a great one-man play centered on Edgar Allan Poe. The work was first presented to the world right here in little old McCleary in 1998. The play has continued to make the rounds to this day.

Although caricature is not really my strength as a cartoonist, how can one resist making a try at drawing a face like Poe's? This drawing was recently used again as part of our local library's Poe art show.

State of Beings #6: Colorado

Arrived on this planet with City Limits Gazette # Look Ma, no brain! (Feb. 1992)

I picked in Ouray, Colorado in 1888 to retell Poe's Tell-Tale Heart. My great-grandfather had been a silver prospector there at that time.