Showing posts with label Retreads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Retreads. Show all posts

Monday, February 14, 2011

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

Revived after being asleep since 1986, I had a lot of catching up to do in gathering old work to reprint.

Trivia:

The cover logo for this and subsequent issues of Retreads was created by writing the word using a felt tip pen, immersing the paper in water for awhile, baking it in the microwave for a few seconds, and then enlarging the image.

Page 18: The symbol that serves as the source image of the story was actually used as part of the workflow in the Technical Services of The Evergreen State College Library.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

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1st edition, 1986, Pullman, Washington, 50 copies, orchid cover, enlarged digest size.

1st Danger Room Reprint edition, July 2005, 5 copies, blue cover, enlarged digest size.

This would be the last issue of this run for 19 years. I'm sure I had some good reason for putting it in stasis for so long, but the original intention of this action has managed to escape my memory banks. The not remembering thing going on in my cranium seems to be a common occurrence these days. And yet yesterday I was recalling the obnoxious theme song of TV show called "Little Leatherneck" that aired only once, on July 29, 1966.

Trivia:

Page 9: I later learned we actually had a guy run for Governor here in Washington State named Henry Joseph Snively in 1892.

Page 9-20: I'm not an atheist. I believe in God. Today I happen to believe God looks like a giant cat. Tomorrow God might take another form. I think God must have a sense of humor given all the jokes played on us by life circumstances. But I don't believe in religion. Obviously.

Page 23, panel 4: Charles Dickens.

Page 26-27: Although I'm not a big reader of fiction, the Big Three for me in American literature during my college years were Vonnegut, Kesey, and Brautigan. In the 1980s I had the joy of hearing Vonnegut speak in person, and had a chance to converse a little with Kesey. Never did see or meet my fellow Washington State native, Richard Brautigan.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

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1st edition, April 1986, 50 copies, green cover, enlarged digest size.

1st Danger Room Reprint edition, July 2005, 5 copies, blue cover, enlarged digest size.

Trivia:

Pages 16-19: A piece as maudlin as "The Karmakazi Pilot From the Deep Blue Sky" in Cranium Frenzy # 2. But there it is, so what can I do? I had a job for awhile in 1975 as a nurse's aide in a Tacoma area rest home for former patients of Western State Hospital. Many of the residents had been victims of Western's big lobotomy wave in the 1940s-1950s. I'm sure that job experience somehow worked it's way into this little essay.