Outside In # 2

1st edition, 1983, 150 copies on white cardstock.

2nd edition, December 1983, 20 copies on white cardstock.

3rd edition, 1984. Seattle, Washington : Starhead Comix, regular stock white paper.

Doug Holverson, John Howard, David Miller, Robert Stump, Robin Coder-Willis, Steve Willis, Clay Geerdes.

That great cover shows Holverson in, I believe, his beloved Studebaker. David Miller's self-portrait looks like it could've been drawn during the Renaissance and it remains one of my favorites in the series. Robin's demonstrates just how provincial we native Washingtonians can be, tucked up here in this corner, walled off by water, mountains and rain. Morty obviously has little patience for T.S. Eliot.

Howard and Stump were two prolific Newave regulars during the early-mid 1980s. John produced some of the funniest wage slave comix I've encountered, and Robert was very active in publishing, including reprinting my Sasquatch Comix series.

I met Geerdes and Miller in 1989 on a visit to the Bay Area. As you can see by the photos in the Clay Geerdes Scrapbook post, David looks pretty much like the way he portrayed himself, but Clay had a more creative self-image I must say. Oddly, to me Clay's self-portrait matched his voice, but not his face.

Retreads # 2

1st edition, 1984, 50 copies, light creme cover, enlarged digest size.

2nd edition, May 1984, 30 copies, dark creme cover, enlarged digest size.

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

Trivia:

Pages 3-4: True story except for the joining the Army part. It happened in 1979.

Page 16: Dialogue was supplied by Robert Stump, Hopewell, Virginia.

Page 23-24: Another totally true story. It happened in 1976.

Back cover: That's me quoting Eliot, Morty quoting himself.

Sasquatch Comix #5

The final entry in the Sasquatch Comix series.

The 1st ed. was printed on white paper in 1983, probably in late February or early March 1983 in Olympia, Washington. It had a run of 73 copies.

The 2nd ed., also on white paper, also published in Olympia, had a run of 54 copies in June, 1983.

The 3rd ed. was published June 1984 in Hopewell, Virginia by Robert Stump.

In the 1994 print-on-demand compilation, the cover of this minicomic was also used for the cover of the digest anthology.

Yes, this is basically a true story. My friend Elissa, who now lives in Seattle, can verify all this. Some details in real life that differ from the published version-- We are not dogs and Sasquatch doctors did not see me at the conclusion. But I was acquainted with a Dr. Robert Norton.

And instead of the Grub Harbor County Sheriff and crew that were totally drunk, it was several Grays Harbor County deputy sheriffs, the jail matron, and others in the staff who were totally drunk. And they did indeed lay the whole "search party" line on us. When we left early the next morning, that crowd was still there-- pretty wrecked and hung over!

Yes, I used to chew that Copenhagen garbage. Don't ever get hooked on that stuff, kids. Quitting it is pure Hell.

By the way, when my family moved to the farm which we went on to own for 40 years, I spent my childhood running around these Northwest jungle woods with the little grizzled dog who came with the place. He was gruff, floppy eared, and probably would've smoked cigars if I let him. We became best buddies and in many ways he was the original Morty the Dog. The previous owners named him Blackie, so the name stuck. I'm including a photo of us during my farm kid years.

Sasquatch Comix #4

1st ed. published early 1983 in Olympia, Washington. Blue cardstock cover, white guts. 55 copies.

2nd ed. in March, 1983, also in Olympia. Blue noncardstock cover. 50 copies.

For some reason I apparently do not have a copy of the 3rd ed., but my records indicate it was published in October, 1983 by Robert Stump in Hopewell, Virginia.

This was included in the 1994 digest-sized reprint-on-demand compilation of the series.

This tale is weird with a beard, man. I don't remember where I found it. This story has a hint of the Native American origins of the Sasquatch legend.

Aside from the small detail that Morty is the narrator, and he has some speaking lines in the last panel, he is otherwise more of a normal and traditional canine than usual in this story.