Cryogenic Comix # 12

1st edition, 1998, 15 copies (5 green covers, 10 buff covers, all yellow guts), regular digest size.

1st Danger Room Reprint Edition, June 2005, 5 copies, yellow cover, regular digest size.

This issue has some prep work for Cranium Frenzy # 3, a couple very bad attempts at drawing Eisenhower for some unknown reason (the first Prez I can remember), and a "V" is for Visigoth that was set aside for another version but I can't remember right now what the heck publication I submitted the other one to. This memory detail lapse on that last item is probably due to the fact I'm old enough to say Eisenhower is the first President I can remember.

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Cryogenic Comix # 11

1st edition, 1998, 15 copies (9 pink, 5 green 1 yellow cover-- all of these with yellow guts), regular digest size.

1st Danger Room Reprint Edition, June 2005, yellow, regular digest size.

From my notes it looks like the Cryogenic Comix series was published in batches in the last couple months of 1998. #1 was solo, # 2-4 were printed at the same time, and # 5-10 was a slightly later run.

# 11-17 appear to have been published as a batch, and finally # 18 was, for reasons that will be obvious when we get there, released as a solo.

This issue has preliminary drawings for a story I drew for one of Dale Luciano's Dada Gumbo anthology minicomix on page 2.

The centerspread has the finished first page of a tale I never published featuring Morty the Dog and Arnie Wormwood. I think I discarded it for some reason and started over, it looks to be vintage 1982 or 1983. The last two pages have drafts of characters I used in Cranium Frenzy # 3 (1982).

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about that Donate button

Steve's blog here sports a new Donate button to help keep Morty in kibble and cigars. Feel free to toss some $ in the tip jar.

I'm purposefully not running google or other ads on this blog so that the focus can stay on Steve's work.

Speaking of Steve's work - isn't it impressive how active he is with his blog? I've even suggested that he could afford to slack off a little, say by reducing his posting to every other day, but that ain't happening for now. He and Morty have a lot to share with us.

So it is the least I can do to help make sure they both are kept in kibble and cigars. :-)

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Tumwater, Washington

Cryogenic Comix # 10

1st edition, 1998, 15 copies, grey cover, yellow guts, regular digest size.

1st Danger Room Reprint Edition, June 2005, 5 copies, yellow, regular digest size.

Page 3 appears to have a prep drawing for the cover of Cranium Frenzy # 3 (1982). Page 6 gives my librarian's opinion of the Dewey Decimal System, with a portrait of Morty and I underneath.

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Tumwater, Washington

Cryogenic Comix # 9

1st edition, 1998, 15 copies, blue cover, yellow guts, regular digest size.

1st Danger Room Reprint Edition, June 2005, 5 copies, yellow, regular digest size.

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McCleary VFW Hall

Bruce Chrislip Portrait of SW, 1986

While I was preparing the hallway for repainting, I noticed this framed portrait was starting to fade, so I thought I better scan it right away.

This was drawn by Bruce Chrislip back in 1986. In those days he was living in Seattle and acted as host for many cartoonist get-togethers. They were fun and offered all of us local comix artists the opportunity to meet face to face.

After Bruce and Joan moved to Cincinnati, the Seattle comix scene was never quite the same.

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Roadside attraction for about a week, McCleary, Washington

Cryogenic Comix # 8

1st edition, 1998, 15 copies, buff cover, yellow guts, regular digest size.

1st Danger Room Reprint Edition, June 2005, 5 copies, all yellow, regular digest size.

The centerspread includes preliminary drawings of Chuck and Elma, a couple I used as characters in some comic I can't recall right off the top of my cranial orb-- it was in 1982 or 1983.

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Granada Theater, The Dalles, Oregon

Cryogenic Comix # 7

1st edition, 1998, 15 copies, pink cover, yellow guts, regular digest size.

1st Danger Room Reprint Edition, June 2005, 5 copies, all yellow, regular digest size.

You can tell I'm still trying to find the definitive Arnie Wormwood in these pages.

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McCleary, Washington

Cryogenic Comix # 6

1st edition, 1998, 15 copies, green cover, yellow guts, regular digest size.

1st Danger Room Reprint Edition, June 2005, 5 copies, all yellow, regular digest size.

There were two short comix I drew in the early 1980s: Fun in Acapulco and Pacemaker Defect. I can tell some of these drawings were prep work for stories in one or both of those titles. Arnie Wormwood shows up on 3 pages here. The gentleman with the beard and glasses is Dean True, who was once a neighbor to one of Ernest Borgnine's ex-wives. Page 7 has, for reasons I have long since forgotten, drawings of Woodrow Wilson and Herbert Hoover. That's Al Capone on the bottom of page 6.

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Any comment I write will only make it worse.

Cryogenic Comix # 5

1st edition, November? 1998, 15 copies, all yellow, regular digest size.

1st Danger Room Reprint Edition, June 2005, 5 copies, all yellow, regular digest size.

That looks like a self-portrait on the bottom left corner of page 3, next to the "plastics" dog.