Heir of the Dog

Irving, Texas : Ozone Press, July 1987. 500 copies.

Hal Hargit and Dave Tosh put together this farewell to Morty after one of many announcements the mutt was dead. Other artists in the roast included: T. Ritter, W.C. Pope, Wayno, Walt Rodgers, Bob Vojtko, Rick Bradford, Allen Freeman, Andy Nukes, Mike Hill, Jim Thompson, Matt Feazell, Matt Borders, Ted Bolman, Jim Ryan, Brad Foster, Dale Luciano, Jeff Gaither, Edd Vick, and myself.

This thick minicomic included a centerspread that folded out to letter size.

This book really makes me teary eyed to read even now, after almost a quarter century. Such a great bunch of cartoonists. This comic made me realize how lucky I was not only to have such a wonderful network of comrades, but also, perhaps ironically given the fact Morty was supposed to be dead, that I had created a character worthy of a roast.

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Dance of Toasters

Butler, Pennsylvania : Maximum Traffic, 1996.

Max put together this jam in June 1996, and included some drawings by my daughter Rose, who was 8 years old at the time.

Seems like an appropriate minicomic to post on Father's Day.

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The beach boys, Charlie and Dreamer

They were strays we found at Ocean Shores, Washington 5 years ago

Damn Weird Comix # 6

Butler, Pennsylvania : Maximum Traffic, 1996.

A jam with Max Traffic and the wonderful Mark Campos. The image on page 3 was no doubt lifted from a Morty Comix.

Both of these beer swilling aliens appeared in print three years later in Modernman # 3; Maximum Traffic # 210.

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Not a Second Time : Reviews of Beatles Songs as Sung by Other Artists-- the Leftovers

Earlier I posted Not a Second Time : Reviews of Beatles Songs as Sung by other Artists. This was a collection of review columns from WLN Ink in 1990.

Posted here are the remaining mean-spirited columns from 1991 that were published after the book.

The cartoonist mentioned in the first column is Scott Stevens, who was a bassist for the Butthole Surfers in 1981. Scott was a house guest here in McCleary back in the 1980s, I think, and I enjoyed his visit.

I can't remember who put together that librarian cartoon, or why.

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It's one thing to think it, but to actually advertise this opinion is a bit impolite, I'd say.

Move Over Superman, Make Way for Morty / by Johnny Dodd

A profile piece on Edd Vick and Miscellanea Unlimited Press from the University Herald (Seattle, Washington), February 7, 1990.

The "comics aren't just for kids anymore" was an expression journalists liked to use a lot when describing our kind of comix. I first started reading that phrase in the mid-1970s. Today, I think it is pretty much taken for granted there is a huge bloc of Boomers who never let go of the medium and comic art has grown up right alongside us as we spin through the mortal coil.

Johnny Dodd, the author of this article, apparently went on to write for People.

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