Morty Comix # 2609

Morty Comix # 2609 was slipped into a copy of my favorite Vonnegut novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, at the public library in Butler, Pennsylvania. On the way to this book, Tom Rehm showed me the beautiful mural in the children's section created by his brother, Michael Rehm.

Geographic Newave/Underground Comix Index: Alabama-California (Orinda)

Shortly after Jay Kennedy released The Official Underground and Newave Comix Price Guide (1982) I went through it and re-sorted the geographic information by hand. Remember, this was long before Internet. I was interested in the demographics and regional distribution of this thing of ours. Plus, I am a librarian. This is what we do.

This was all hammered out on a manual typewriter, probably in 1982. I'll be posting this in parts. It has never been distributed in any form.

Jay's list, of course, was not complete, but he made a very good effort. If you hit the tag for the Official Underground and Newave Comix Price Guide you'll see some folks had issues with the publication. Jay is gone, and so is his biggest critic, Lynn Hansen. I liked them both very much and still miss these two guys.

In 1982 I didn't expect to outlive these two good men, but here I am, still around even though I am among the most sedentary of humans. The guy I list as my family doctor died several years ago. I smoke cigars and don't exercise. Fate has given me the task of being a relic and bloviating about the past of an obscure art movement, passing the torch to the students of the esoteric. So here I am blogging for you.

And, as Vonnegut said, so it goes.

This will be a long list, so you comix historians keep checking in. 

Assorted Thoughts on Insanity : Ephemeral Comix, 1980-1982, pages 46-60