Sinking Islands & Other Stories

1st edition, 1992, Seattle, Washington : Starhead Comix. Enlarged digest size. The "Sinking Islands" portion of the cover was printed in color and pasted on.

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

Trivia:

The script of "First Line" is comprised entirely of the opening sentences of various books. What I love about the bibliography is that Michael Dowers obviously used one of those exciting new dot matrix printers to initially print it, giving this a real period piece feel.

"The Parade" is one of my personal favorites, describing a state of being that seems to be perpetual and never settling for me.

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The Rise and Fall of Morty the Dog

1st edition, 1987, Seattle, Washington : Starhead Comix, 200 copies. white gloss cover, regular digest size.

2nd edition, 1992, Ocean Shores, Washington : Starhead Comix, white cover, regular digest size.

1st Danger Room Reprint edition, August 2005, McCleary, Washington : [The Fool on the Hill]. 5 copies (4 red, 1 blue), regular digest size.

When Michael Dowers published the 2nd edition he gave the outside covers a bit of red and changed the content of the inside and outside back cover. I must've drawn "Famous Taxi Scene" sometime between 1987 and 1992.

Hey, here's an eyeball joke I posted on OlyBlog last month. Apparently only pupils of puns get this one:

I know this rich guy named Arthur. He has a morbid fear of going blind. So he buys eyeballs to keep in stock at the eye bank just in case. He has so much money he can afford to hire a group of people just to take care of his stored eyeballs. They have a special room only they can enter, and on the door it says: "Arthur Eyes Personnel Only"

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Washington State Department of Health

ReView v. 14, no. 3 (June 5, 1993)

The cartoonists issue of The Evergroove State College alumni folks. Includes profiles of Michael Swofford, Morty the Dog, Craig Bartlett, Charles Burns, Lynda Barry, Matt Groening, and Young Harvill. I didn't know Swofford, Bartlett was after my time, I remember Burns and Harvill pretty well as they were already public figures on campus but I'm sure they don't remember me. Marge Brown and I were co-workers when I worked at Evergreen's library 1986-1988. Matt and Lynda I knew as fellow students 1974-1977 and have watched their post-TESC careers with fascination.

An updated version of this issue would have to include many more names since Evergroove has now become an academic destination point for budding cartoonists.

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City Limits Gazette/White Buffalo Gazette History, Pt. 3-4

John Porcellino completes his history of City Limits Gazette/White Buffalo Gazette with two more parts.

Part 3 includes interviews with Edward Bolman, Cat Noel, Jeff Zenick, Larned Justin, Buzz Buzzyzik/Maximum Traffic/Borpo Deets.

Part 4 is a look at the amazing Millennium issue of White Buffalo Gazette.

Nice work, John! I salute you. This is a slice of first-person comix history that might otherwise have been lost without your efforts.

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Proof that North is Up and South is Down