A Visit to the Danger Room

That's Casey on the left, Frank on the right. These are the Danger Room guys. They love comix and have a section of shelves set aside just for us obscuro cartoonists, helping to get our comix out there without permission from the big publishers and distributors. They are both also keen observers of comix as social indicators.

As you can see by the photo, Frank is the chief storyteller, armtwister and Sam-I-Am here. Somehow he talked me into providing the store with Danger Room Reprint editions of over 120 titles in 2005. Actually, he also talked me into finally attending the Oly Comix Fest, and hey, I like green eggs and ham! I do, I like them, Sam-I-Am! So you can thank Frank for reviving all those titles and getting me out on the local comix scene in person.

The 2005 Danger Room Reprint editions are no longer available there, but I do supply them with copies of the recent material I've printed like Dog of Dawn, Dog of Dusk and Natural Functions.

Yesterday I dropped off a couple copies of We Rode With the Clowns and took these photos.

The Danger Room is also where I first met Chelsea Baker, another cartoonist who migrated to Oly in order to attend the Evergroove State College. Not only is she one of the organizers of the Oly Comix Fest, but she also contributed to We Rode With The Clowns. You can find her cartoons in Olympia Power and Light, a local biweekly.

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Natural Functions now in Mortyshop!

Reprinted from the original quarter-century-old master copy! 36 pages plus a Morty Comix tossed into the deal. The most beautiful print job this comic has ever had. Check it out at Mortyshop!

Natural Functions was posted here January 22.

Natural Functions

1st edition, February? 1986, 60 copies, orchid cover, enlarged digest size.

2nd edition, April 1986, 30 copies, orchid cover, enlarged digest size. (The version scanned and posted here)

Available as a print-on-demand, 1994, as part of the Reprint Series. Regular digest size.

Special Fandom House edition, 1994, 20 copies, regular digest size.

1st Danger Room Reprint edition, July 2005, 5 copies (1 blue, 4 yellow), regular digest size. (Wraparound cover example scanned and posted here)

This comic will soon be available in the Mortyshop, 50 copies from the original master copy, enlarged digest size.

"How Cats Got That Way" is up there on the list of my most popular stories, judging by how many times it has been reprinted and commented on. It is true that I'm really much more of a cat person than a dog guy. Ironic considering the name of this blog, eh?

I don't have anything against dogs, in fact I like them a lot. But cats are self-contained furry enigmas. They don't fetch, they don't do well with collars, and they don't need to go for walkies. They say they are too cool for those trifles. I live with four cats and sometimes at night I swear I can hear them in the next room chanting, "Cats rule! Dogs drool!" They all love Sarah and call her by name, but I'm known to them as "Mr. Food Giving Man."

This comic was dedicated to my buddy Ahab, who lived to be 10 years old. I found a photo of him sitting in the bathroom sink about the same year this comic was drawn, when he was around four years old. He was very slovenly, liked to eat potato chips, and had the most beautiful cat voice I have ever heard. He had so many ailments that the vet told us he was going to build a new wing to his clinic and name it after Ahab.