Snake Skin

1st edition, 1994, presented as a print-on-demand comic, regular digest size. I would guess there are anywhere between 50 to 100 copies out there.

This was originally drawn as a contribution for Iron Moose # 3 in 1984.

Although I have mentioned elsewhere in this blog I thought this tale was influenced by Dr. Seuss' Yertle the Turtle, I cannot deny it is also reflection of my years of working in traditional bureaucratic hierarchies.

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Reality Cartoons

A gallery of fascinating yet disturbing images.

And here.

Here, too.

This one is all Crumb.

They just keep cranking these things out.

Must ... escape ... before I squander ... arrgh ... entire ... morning ...

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Olympia, Washington, near the BroHo

Six Mazes

1st edition, Aug. 26, 2001, 18 copies, all yellow, regular digest size.

1st Danger Room Reprint edition, June 2005, 5 copies, all green, regular digest size.

This book has some mazes. Six of them to be exact. Hence the title, Six Mazes.

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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