Steve Willis Archives v. 3

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

This contains the same material as Stevetreads # 3 (1987) but has a been a bit rearranged.

Steve Willis Archives v. 1

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

Jeff Nicholson expanded the Stevetreads idea in this series. But unlike the former title, all four volumes in this were published at the same time.

Volume 1 was basically an enlarged version of Stevetreads # 1, a consistent pattern throughout the Archives.

The image in this work that captures my attention the most is the ad for One Normal Guy Talking With a Nut, which I don't believe has been posted on this blog before.

Stevetreads # 3

1st edition, 1987. Chico, California : Jeff Nicholson. White cover, regular digest size.

The number of copies for the 3rd and 4th issues of this series isn't recorded in my list, but I would assume the count is low since the first two issues had a grand total of 3 copies per issue.

The name Stevetreads was a play on my Retreads title, a series devoted to reprinting items printed hither and yon into one collection (I smile as I recall Ted Bolman wanted to start yet another play on this called ReTeds, which I hope he did). Several of the pieces Jeff reprinted were actually reprints of reprints. But in this issue there was something different. Half the book was filled with new work.

Jeff had acquired several pages of unpublished jam comix between Dale Luciano and myself. This was the in-print debut for the cover art and all work from the "Memories" page to the end. These were later reprinted in 1994 in Dada Gumbo Morty.

Stevetreads # 1

1st edition, 1987, Chico, California : Jeff Nicholson. 3 copies, regular digest size.

That's right, only 3 copies.

The hopefully-not-really-retired-from-comix-for-life cartoonist Jeff Nicholson, creator of Ultra Klutz, Through the Habitrails, Colonia, and Father and Son published a 4-issue short run of this "bootleg" Stevetreads series to fill out his own collection.

I believe everything in this first issue has already been scanned and posted here in various places.

We'll be seeing quite a bit of Jeff's work down the road when I reach the part of the backlog containing our Ultra Klutz jam.

Hmm, I see a cat hair got into the scan of the final page. That makes it a cat scan, right? I guess I should've stopped the machine by hitting the paws button. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.