Cryogenic Comix # 26

Cryogenic Comix # 26
Copyright (c) 2019 Steve Willis

Most of these drawings from the first half of 1980 barely fit on my scanner. This batch includes a very disorganized Morty the Bear story. I think the idea was to eventually bring all the crazy threads together. The pages have thumbtack holes, meaning I had them on the wall with a plan.

That photo was me at my drawing space in early 1980 where many of these images were created. The window had a beautiful view of our neighbor, the KFC franchise in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle.

Cryogenic Comix # 22

Cryogenic Comix # 22
Copyright (c) 2019 Steve Willis

The drawings are felt tip on thin bond, probably drawn in the first half of 1980.

This recent acquisition of the lost mountain of comix work that I am posting really ties the room together. For years I often wondered what happened to my drawings between the publication of Mythic Residue (1978)

https://mortydog.blogspot.com/2011/01/mythic-residue.html

and the 1980-1982 drawings for Assorted Thoughts on Insanity (1982)

https://mortydog.blogspot.com/search/label/Assorted%20Thoughts%20on%20Insanity

As you can see, Morty the Bear continues to show up.

Cryogenic Comix # 19

Cryogenic Comix # 19
Copyright (c) 2019 Steve Willis

The first 18 issues of this series was originally published in 1998 and followed with a 2005 Danger Room edition. I will be creating subsequent issues here on this blog as a strictly online title.

The following pieces were created probably in mid-1980,  judging by the depiction of what life was like around here after Mt. St. Helens erupted May 18, 1980. The drawings are felt tip on thin bond.

One detail about this particular 1979-1980 trove I had forgotten about, there was also a Morty the Bear character. Morty the Dog's first solo story was not until 1981 and the earliest drawing of "Mortie" the Dog I can locate is ca. 1978, but it looks like I was also trying out another type of Morty.

I always liked the name "Morty." Lenny Bruce employed the name in his stand-up with a comic punch and that's probably how I came to use it since I did not know anyone by that name.