Showing posts with label Planet of the Bobs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Planet of the Bobs. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

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?

Friday, March 4, 2011

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.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Morty Without Tears ; and, Planet of the Bobs










1st edition, August 1989, 30 copies, ivory cover, regular digest size.

Available as a print-on-demand title, 1996.

1st Danger Room Reprint edition, July 2005, 5 copies, yellow cover.

In 1986 I returned to The Evergreen State College in the role of employee. The institution was much different than the school I had left in 1979. "The experiment," TESC's new president announced, "is over." And so it was.

Be that as it may, The Cooper Point Journal, Evergreen's newspaper, was still around. Since 1979 they had been publishing my comix from a giant stack of drawings I had left-- So I started giving them new work.

Drawn in 1986-1987, I was pretty convinced at the time I was through with comix as an artist. It turned out I wasn't exactly finished, just not as prolific. 1983-1986 was my most productive cartooning years in terms of quantity.

Trivia:

Page 2: Evergreen was not active in sports teams until after I graduated. But it always had a mascot-- the geoduck ("Gooey duck"), an obscene looking shellfish found locally.

Page 3: I believe this happened at the 1978 or 1979 graduation ceremony. True story. By the way I enjoy wearing ties.

Page 4: Evergreen's 4-sided clock tower was famous for having four very different times on each face.