Pacemaker Defect

Back in 1982 I thought Pacemaker Defect would've made a great name for a band I wanted to start. Only problem is I can't play any musical instruments. Or read music. Or sing. So I drew a comic instead.

1st edition, 1982, Olympia, Washington, 30 copies, pink cover, enlarged digest.

1996, print-on-demand, regular digest size.

1st Danger Room Reprint edition, July 2005, 5 copies, red, regular digest size.

This is sort of a companion to another half-comic I drew around the same time, Fun in Acapulco.

Pretty much a cathartic cranium streamo comic. The question "I wonder what the Hell happened to my other karmic half?" has been something I've been asking myself in real life ever since I drew this.

Cryogenic Comix # 6

1st edition, 1998, 15 copies, green cover, yellow guts, regular digest size.

1st Danger Room Reprint Edition, June 2005, 5 copies, all yellow, regular digest size.

There were two short comix I drew in the early 1980s: Fun in Acapulco and Pacemaker Defect. I can tell some of these drawings were prep work for stories in one or both of those titles. Arnie Wormwood shows up on 3 pages here. The gentleman with the beard and glasses is Dean True, who was once a neighbor to one of Ernest Borgnine's ex-wives. Page 7 has, for reasons I have long since forgotten, drawings of Woodrow Wilson and Herbert Hoover. That's Al Capone on the bottom of page 6.