The Life and Times of Morty the Dog / The Lives and Deaths of Morty the Dog

Consisting of reprints, some of them going back to a decade, Michael Dowers assembled this comic in 1992 under the Starhead Comix banner. He gathered this material from several different titles.

It was a 2-in-1 book, one of those flip-over reverse deals with two covers.

A bit of trivia:

I'm pretty sure I did not draw the logo for the Lives & Deaths cover.

The page with Morty continually dialing and being answered with a recorded message seems incomplete. But I can't quite place where the original appeared in order to look it up.

The skiis with ice cubes panel: I had a roommate in college who did this.

To Touch the Face of Larry

First published in 1998, probably in August or September, 35 copies on cardstock (19 green, 16 yellow).

The 2nd ed., which was published a month or so later, had 15 copies on cardstock (14 grey, 1 blue). There is no edition statement.

The 1st Danger Room Reprint Ed. of June 2005 consisted of 5 blue cardstock copies.

In 2006 the story was posted both on OlyBlog and Loafers Magazine.

It was drawn with a #1 lead pencil.

I'm very fond of this one. The concept came from Ann Hartman, a fellow McClearyite who told me her sister Ruth always imagined God to look like her Larry Fine (of the Three Stooges) hand puppet. So I took it from there and brought that idea to it's natural conclusion.

And just so you know, I like Curly but Shemp rules, man. Shemp smoked cigars and had a son named Morty.