Vote Bob X

Mike Honeycutt forwarded this "Boxing Day" interactive article from The Memphis Flyer featuring our old pal from the Newave days, Bob X!

http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/boxing-day/Content?oid=3147237

Here's a chance to vote for something you can feel good about. How often does that happen?

Outside In # 14

1st edition, 1984, 200 copies on white cardstock.

2nd edition, 1984. Seattle, Washington : Starhead Comix, regular stock white paper.

Mike Honeycutt, Jane Oliver, Kathryn Pritz, Meher Dada, Jane Weir, James Dean Pruner, Randy Maxson.

A particularly unsettling issue, or maybe that's my feeling in hindsight since Pruner died in 1988, and Oliver in 1992. Very strong self-portraits in every case here.

This was the final issue of Outside In I edited before handing it off to Michael Dowers. A brief history of the series will be forthcoming.

ZZZZZZ Elvis!

This jam with Mike Honeycutt was published by Starhead Comix in Seattle in 1985. Mike was one of the Tennessee artists who came into the late Newave with Bob X and XNO. They had a regional brand of comix with a flavor of grotesque surrealism and rich, energetic visuals.

I was a Beatles guy, so Elvis to me was always sort of a sad and comical figure. His deification by a significant portion of the world still puzzles me to this day. For Honeycutt, who lived in Elvis country, this must've been an extra strange comic in which to participate. But I'm glad he did.