Phone photo 2705

"Help Bobo Escape From Mr. Death!"

Pittsburgh

Phone photo 2002

Part of a Vince Ryland mural advertising a corn maze in Tumwater, Washington

$25 Sale - Original Art - Cranium Frenzy # 6, back cover

Cranium Frenzy # 6, back cover

Medium # paper measure 35.5 x 28 cm. Nonphoto blue pencil with felt tip finishing lines. Drawn in 1990.

  

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Not a Second Time : Reviews of Beatles Songs as Sung by Other Artists-- the Leftovers

Earlier I posted Not a Second Time : Reviews of Beatles Songs as Sung by other Artists. This was a collection of review columns from WLN Ink in 1990.

Posted here are the remaining mean-spirited columns from 1991 that were published after the book.

The cartoonist mentioned in the first column is Scott Stevens, who was a bassist for the Butthole Surfers in 1981. Scott was a house guest here in McCleary back in the 1980s, I think, and I enjoyed his visit.

I can't remember who put together that librarian cartoon, or why.

Storm Warnings

1st edition, February 1986, Pullman, Washington. 50 copies, white cover, enlarged digest size.

2nd edition, February 1986, Pullman, Washington. 30 copies, white cover, enlarged digest size.

3rd edition, 1990, Seattle, Washington : Starhead Comix. 17 x 13 cm. Color covers.

Available as a print-on-demand title in regular digest size, 1996.

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

The nationally distributed Starhead version reprinted the 1980s story "Downtime Laff Riot" and a maze not found in the original edition.

My initials follow me around. I was born in Spokane, Washington. SW. I live in Southwest Washington. SW. Storm Warnings. SW.

I'm not particularly fond of this comic, especially the Rainmaker story. Oddly, it seems to me that out of all my comix, this one is the most acceptable to fans of conventional comic books.

Trivia:

P. 3-4: Mr. Wright also appeared in Delayed Stress Syndrome Funnies.

P. 13: Mukey and porcupines. It doesn't get much better than this, one of the few bright and happy spots in this book. Notice Mukey has a Max Fleischer character type of nose here. He was still under construction.

P. 23: Hey, isn't that ... Brad Foster in that crowd? Why, yes, I think it is!

Steve Willis Archives v. 2

1st edition, March 1991. Chico, California : Onward Comics. 50 copies. Blue cover, regular digest size.

This one contains a couple pieces new to this blog.

"The Day I Wore Bruce Chrislip's Tie" was originally published in John E.'s Mumbles # 4, I think. Rather fitting this is being scanned and posted on the eve of Bruce and Joan hosting my visit to SPACE later this month. As time has passed I have come to regard this story to be every bit as pretentious and overly dramatic as the art gallery types I make fun of. The term "cringe-worthy" comes to mind when I read it today-- obviously created at a time when I would occasionally lapse into Drama Boy mode. But I do like the panel of Bruce holding his clip-on tie.

Second, the little ad for The Tragedy of Morty, Prince of Denmarke was a bit of self-promotion that had escaped my memory.