Thursday, February 10, 2011

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.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

City Limits Gazette/White Buffalo Gazette History, Pt. 1


John Porcellino began his three part history of the City Limits Gazette/White Buffalo Gazette continuum today.

Part 1 covers the founding of CLG by Bruce Chrislip and the subsequent revival by yours truly.

It is on his blog, Maybe Blogging Will Help.

According to John: "Part Two will be a long interview with Max/Buzz and Part Three will cover post-Max editors etc. They will go up soon, I'm still waiting to hear from Zenick."

A nice job of putting together a piece of obscuro comix history. I'm eager to read the Maximum Traffic interview in the next round.

Phone photo 276

Dreamer and Charlie

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Retreads # 3





































1st edition, 1985, Pullman, Washington, 50 copies, yellow cover, enlarged digest size. Not distributed until 1986.

2nd edition, December 1985, Pullman, Washington, 30 copies, pink cover, enlarged digest size. Not distributed until 1986.

3rd edition, November 1986, Coupeville, Washington : Published by Rex Munger. 4 copies, white cover, enlarged digest size.

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

Trivia:

Page 34: I still think that is greatest joke ever.

Phone photo 275