OK My Town Is Going Nuts Right Now

The Seahawks won and about half of the 1600 souls in my little town are honking horns, firing guns, lighting fireworks, yelling in the streets. The last time I saw this much public celebration around here was when Obama got Osama. It is really something to witness.

Well, good. Washington, my home, deserves to finally have some national win of any sort in the sports world. I am not a football fan, but I like the way this has generated a lift in morale for folks around here. Sort of like Christmas has been extended up here in our Far Left corner of the USA.

Buttons - Popular Culture - 1986

Soitenly!

On the curl [or in this case, on the Curly]: (c) 1986, N.M.P. Inc. - Col. Pic. Ind., Inc. Button -Up Co. 2011 Austin Troy MI 48084 

Buttons - Popular Culture - 1980s?

I do the work of 3 Men ... Moe, Larry & Curly

Buttons - Popular Culture - 1980s

On the curl: Most of the curl is cut off, but I can read "Warren, MI."

I am pretty sure this button was given to me in the 1980s when the Stooges were rediscovered.

Buttons - Popular Culture - 1985

Stoogemania

Catch It!

On the curl: (c) 1985 Atlantic Releasing Corp.

 

Favorite Movie Quotes: Meet the Baron

"I know I'm not good lookin', but what's my opinion against thousands of others?"

Favorite Movie Quotes: Gold Raiders

"Who do you think you're talkin' to, pardner? I'm the roughest, toughest, rootinest, shootinest hombre that ever come out of Arizony! Reach for it!"

Seattle Star

Oh, Washington my home, wherever I may roam--

Michael Dowers first published the comic tabloid Seattle Star in the mid 1980s. Most of my contributions were recycled from my books, but Michael added color to several of them. Here are the colorized versions. All the black and white stuff you guys have already seen in this blog.

I liked the fact that no matter if the comic was reprinted in color or black and white, Michael liked to use a lot of my cartoons with a Washington State or Pacific Northwest theme in keeping with the Seattle Star feel.

Before Fantagraphics moved up here in the late 1980s, Michael Dowers' Starhead Comics publishing concern was probably the main venue for outsiders to learn about comix art from the Pacific Northwest.

Retreads 4

1st edition, 1985, Pullman, Washington, 70 copies, cherry cover, enlarged digest size.

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

In the 2nd half of 1985 I published several comix but didn't release them until the start of 1986. This was one of them.

Trivia:

Pages 10-11: "The Leash" was always one of my favorite short pieces. It originally appeared, I think, in Equinox, a comic with more of a fan audience than a Newave readership.

Page 16: As I recall, the title for this was created by first drawing the background texture and then taping a cut out stencil of the title over it.

The device of using third parties to describe a basically unseen character in an almost documentary way is a convention that has long interested me. Come to think of it, applying nonfiction narrative techniques to comix is something I learned from the undergrounds. If a documentary is well produced, no matter what the topic, I'm much more engaged than watching, say, football or baseball.

Pages 29-31: George Erling, Bruce Chrislip, Jim Ryan, and J.R. Williams are four very silly people.