Winter Kept Us Warm, Covering Earth In Forgetful Snow

VFW Hall, McCleary, Washington

Charlie and Buster soak up the radiant heat of the woodstove

OK, so maybe T.S. Eliot was a snob, but he was a damn fine poet anyway.

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.