Steve Willis Archives v. 4

1st edition, March 1991. Chico, California : Onward Comics. 50 copies. Blue cover, regular digest size.

This final volume of the set is an enlarged version of Stevetreads # 4.

Now, which one of us is going to badger Jeff Nicholson enough to convince him it is time for his return to the comix medium?

Stevetreads # 4

1st edition, 1988. Chico, California : Jeff Nicholson. White cover, regular digest size.

Jeff's final issue of this series. But, as we shall see soon, Stevetreads was sort of a draft for a bigger project he published a little later.

The jam with Seattle author Edd Vick, I think, is the only artwork here that has not previously been posted on this blog. We drew it during one of his visits to McCleary and he later published it in his Fantoons. Edd is a thoughtful and gentle person, and a wonderful conversationalist as both guest and host.

Retreads 10

1st edition, November 2005, 25 copies, white cover, regular digest size.

Trivia:

Page 6: I'm told I fell down some stairs when I was a small child in Spokane. This is a frequent dream image for me.

Page 12-13: This supposedly really happened to the brother of a friend of mine.

Page 18-19: Hey, you draw cartoons! Draw some posters for us! It'll only take a minute!

Page 20: A real knee-slapper in academic philosophy departments. I think the original art is still around here somewhere, but the felt tip is fading fast.

Page 21: The cataloger cartoon has made the rounds since it was originally published in PNLA Quarterly. I have seen it taped up on cubicle walls of catalogers from Ocean Shores, Washington to some little town in southeast Ohio. That copy of AACR2 is soon to be replaced by a new set of rules called RDA. We librarians love our acronyms.

Page 22-23: Two drawings of Wayno's character, Howie.