"What do you think you are, for Christ's sake, crazy or something? Well,
you're not! You're not! You're no crazier than the average asshole out
walking around on the streets and that's it."
The Diogenes Club
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Copy This! # 1
Copy This # 1, a new publication covering news and information regarding minicomix and their artists (mostly those descending from the community of the Newave era) is, appropriately enough, now available in print only. This issue is 40 p. and in the minicomix format (13 cm.)
This issue includes a new column, "Itchy Dreams," by yours truly; Dan W. Taylor is interviewed by Richard Krauss, "two of the nicest cats you'll ever meet"-- I know that statement is true, I've met them both; And updates on the haps with Larned Justin, Howard Cruse, Bruce Rosenberger, Richard Krauss, Bob Vojtko, Rob Kirby, Edward Bolman, that rascal Buzz Buzzizyk, Joe Wehrle Jr., Jenny Zervakis, Marc Myers, Brad Foster, Artie Romero, Mike Hill, Clark Dissmeyer, Steve Willis, John Porcellino, Andy Nukes, Rick Bradford, Deliane Derry Green, Jeff Zenick, Colin Upton ("color is for the weak"), Matt Feazell, Rob Imes, and the incomparable Bruce Chrislip (who reveals the existence of his comix history in progress!)
No frequency is listed. You can inquire with editor/publisher D. Blake Werts at: 12339 Chesley Dr., Charlotte, NC 28277, or via email: bwerts@vnet.net
Blake says: "News contributors receive a comp copy of the issue(s) in which their announcements appear. So, as long as you are keeping in touch, you are subscribed! Otherwise, single copies go for $2.00 ppd, twelve-issue subscriptions just $20.00 ppd. (U.S. rates, send email for other countries.)"
A very worthy effort that deserves support! Go Blake!
Favorite Movie Quotes: Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Saturday, March 15, 2014
She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain
Uncredited illustration for this 1935 sheet music. And yowza, yowza, yowza! Here's the Old Maestro, Ben Bernie!
Regular Morty the Dog readers know this is really the tune for that hit song, "I Haven't Seen My Underpants in Weeks."
The Comix Files: Drew Curtis and Tim Whidden
New York artists Curtis and Whidden sent me promo material for Burger around 1995/1996:
Idolizing
Floyd M. Storm illustrated the cover of this 1926 sheet music. Like our late local muralist James Abbott, Storm's work is much better handling backgrounds than people.
The Comix Files: Russell Cowser
In 1996 Russell Cowser of Austin, Texas included this creepy image with an order and commented:
"The reverse is a page from a very scary Scientology textbook that we acquisitioned on a fact-finding mission."
Makes me think this is from the Jack T. Chick School of Graphics.
"The reverse is a page from a very scary Scientology textbook that we acquisitioned on a fact-finding mission."
Makes me think this is from the Jack T. Chick School of Graphics.
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Friday, March 14, 2014
Just a Memory
This uncredited illustrator presented a bit of nostalgia in 1927. That is one very strange looking tree, I must say.
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Dord Taste / by Marc Myers
Marc Myers is still creating ambient music. He recently sent me this CD, Dord Taste, which clicks right along as I have been maintaining this blog.
Somewhere in one of my comix the word "dord" is used in one panel. There's a funny little history with that term.
Marc also sent me a couple of my old 1994 catalogs.
Thanks Marc!
The Comix Files: Jerry Collins
Atlanta-based cartoonist Jerry Collins and I corresponded in 1984. He contributed a self-portrait to Outside In # 13.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
The Web of Love
A great cover graphic by Porter M. Griffith on this sheet music, copyright 1929. The artifact is interesting on many levels. For openers the piece is printed on a single sheet and folded. This early talking film was "personally directed" by James Cruze. Apparently part of it was in color!
The movie is about a ventriloquist who is slowly going insane. I have to wonder. This stack of scores originally belonged to my great grandmother, Jennie Hoss. Her brother, Lafe Reeves, worked as a barber but he was also an accomplished ventriloquist. I wonder if he was teased about this movie?
The Comix Files: Jack T. Chick
Back in 1987 I ordered the entire set of those oddball little Jack T. Chick comics so I could donate them to the Washington State University Comix Collection. Jack sent this letter with the order form. It was written during the same era when more famous evangelists than usual were getting caught with their pants down.
"Our enemy, the world ..." Wow. Jack really is from another planet.
But I always admired the way these little guys were distributed, and that method no doubt served as one of the inspirations for how Morty Comix is sometimes presented.
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Home on the Range
This 1935 sheet music is bereft of credits for the cover graphics unless the artist's name is somehow cleverly hidden in the grass.
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