Stevetreads # 2

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

Jeff seems to have edited this one with a local Washington State theme.

I see the geoduck, mascot of The Evergreen State College, not only recently made the "9 worst college nicknames" list but is now a highly coveted by the Chinese mafia.

Morty Without Tears ; and, Planet of the Bobs

1st edition, August 1989, 30 copies, ivory cover, regular digest size.

Available as a print-on-demand title, 1996.

1st Danger Room Reprint edition, July 2005, 5 copies, yellow cover.

In 1986 I returned to The Evergreen State College in the role of employee. The institution was much different than the school I had left in 1979. "The experiment," TESC's new president announced, "is over." And so it was.

Be that as it may, The Cooper Point Journal, Evergreen's newspaper, was still around. Since 1979 they had been publishing my comix from a giant stack of drawings I had left-- So I started giving them new work.

Drawn in 1986-1987, I was pretty convinced at the time I was through with comix as an artist. It turned out I wasn't exactly finished, just not as prolific. 1983-1986 was my most productive cartooning years in terms of quantity.

Trivia:

Page 2: Evergreen was not active in sports teams until after I graduated. But it always had a mascot-- the geoduck ("Gooey duck"), an obscene looking shellfish found locally.

Page 3: I believe this happened at the 1978 or 1979 graduation ceremony. True story. By the way I enjoy wearing ties.

Page 4: Evergreen's 4-sided clock tower was famous for having four very different times on each face.

Hungry Stairs to Heaven

The final entry in the Cranium Station DMZ and Eternities of Darkness trilogy, this minicomic has pretty much the same printing history as the latter title (meaning I'm not aware of any digest size versions). The 1st Danger Room Reprint Ed. consisted of 5 copies with red covers and yellow and orange guts.

Trivia: Like the two previous parts, this one also has a secret message, although not as obvious."Omnia Exstares" was my nod to The Evergroove State College. Our school mascot was the geoduck (pronounced "gooey-duck"), a very obscene looking shellfish found on the shores of Cooper Point, where TESC resided. Although the college didn't actually have any official athletic teams in the 1970s, we still considered the geoduck as our icon. "Omnia Exstares" was as close as the college could get in Latin to "Let it all hang out," which, when captioned under a picture of a geoduck in full glory, was pretty rude. Cougars and huskies drool-- geoducks rule, man! In the 1978-1979 school year (the year I graduated), certain officials attempted to get rid this mascot, but the students overwhelmingly voted in a special campus election to keep the critter, and the geoduck mascot remains at TESC to this day. Omnia Exstares!