Cryogenic Comix # 38

Cryogenic Comix # 38
Copyright (c) 2019 Steve Willis

Felt tip on a sketchpad, Burlington, Vermont, Sept. 1979. Note the appearance of Morty the Human.

The third image could be a drawing of the brother of Benb, one of my favorite of Steve's Lafler's great characters-- of course at the time I had yet to know Steve or his work. My introduction the whole Newave comix scene was still a couple years away.

Cryogenic Comix # 26

Cryogenic Comix # 26
Copyright (c) 2019 Steve Willis

Most of these drawings from the first half of 1980 barely fit on my scanner. This batch includes a very disorganized Morty the Bear story. I think the idea was to eventually bring all the crazy threads together. The pages have thumbtack holes, meaning I had them on the wall with a plan.

That photo was me at my drawing space in early 1980 where many of these images were created. The window had a beautiful view of our neighbor, the KFC franchise in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle.

Cryogenic Comix # 22

Cryogenic Comix # 22
Copyright (c) 2019 Steve Willis

The drawings are felt tip on thin bond, probably drawn in the first half of 1980.

This recent acquisition of the lost mountain of comix work that I am posting really ties the room together. For years I often wondered what happened to my drawings between the publication of Mythic Residue (1978)

https://mortydog.blogspot.com/2011/01/mythic-residue.html

and the 1980-1982 drawings for Assorted Thoughts on Insanity (1982)

https://mortydog.blogspot.com/search/label/Assorted%20Thoughts%20on%20Insanity

As you can see, Morty the Bear continues to show up.