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Charlie on the garage roof

The Brad W. Foster Checklist : Works in Print, 1972-1994 / compiled by Gary Usher

McCleary, Washington : Steve Willis, 1995. Regular digest size, print-on-demand.

Brad Foster made a deal with the Devil, right? How else can you explain the astounding amount of work as documented by Gary Usher in this bibliography?

In the mid-1990s I was trying to publish and encourage comix researchers to send me manuscripts in order to promote the idea our brand of comix needed to be taken seriously as an academic subject. Bibliographer extraordinaire Gary Usher sent me enough material to produce a few books, but this particular monograph was the most impressive to me of all his lists and indexes. I was also thrilled to make this available as a tribute to a great cartoonist.

Brad has produced an amazing amount of work. I would love to see if some brave bibliographer has the fortitude to update this list to the present day and annotate each entry!

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A Twinkie Weiner Sandwich
I was inspired by Weird Al's movie UHF

It tasted great but in less than an hour I was regretting this

Dirt, October 1989

"Kill the Artists" translated and published in the October 1989 issue of a Greek zine that has a title apparently translated as "Dirt." Looks like it was published in Ptolemaida, Greece.

The English version was reprinted in Retreads 9.

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Olympia, Washington

When America Invaded Russia : an American in Vladivostok, 1919 : a diary / by Alpha H. Fleming

I transcribed this unique diary in the McCleary Museum by painstakingly banging out it letter by letter on my old typewriter in 1990. I tried to follow the original as closely as I could. Not sure how many of these I published.

A very interesting primary document and soldier's narrative of the Allied occupation of the Soviet Union, specifically from a member of the American Expeditionary Forces.

OK, so I'm posting this bit of history on a blog primarily devoted to obscuro comix. Just one of the many ways we try to be eclectic here on Morty the Blog.

Al Fleming's Diary 1919

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The Helium Lobster
with the Washington State Legislative Building
looming over the Fetid Lake of Doom in the background
Olympia, Washington

Taken on the Isthmus
I got my driver's license on the now abandoned building on the left

A doc who looked like Patty Duke's father gave me shots
on the now abandoned building on the right