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Monday, December 22, 2014:

Happy Holidays!
Celebrate "Four Days of FAR OUT GREEN", our Holiday Gift.

Howdy - Longtime readers might remember that, give or take a missed year or two, each year this website likes to gift readers with something really rare and special for the Holiday Season. This year there's a huge gift - A complete set of Frank Thorne's impossibly rare Social Welfare comic series FAR OUT GREEN SUPER COOL. Talk about tough to find: These booklets were produced for just one city in Trenton New Jersey and are terrifically weird. To make things fun, one issue a day will be posted over a four day period.

CLICK FOR FOUR DAYS OF FAR OUT GREEN

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Monday, November 24, 2014:

Radio Wire #2
Second issue of our current webcomic now available

Good morning - Now available here is the second issue of RADIO WIRE. I posted this last week and have already received some nice responses (Thank you Boing Boing and Comics Reporter, as well as individual responses on Facebook, and Twitter) - Issue #3 of Radio Wire will be worth the wait, thanks very much for your interest in issues one and two.

CLICK TO READ RADIO WIRE

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Comics with Problems #65
Terrific temperance themed anti-alcohol screed from 1949

UNKEPT PROMISE! Oh man, for those of you who regularly read Comics with Problems, this current issue is terrific. For around a decade I've been looking for a decent copy of UNKEPT PROMISE, a 24-page masterwork of anti-alcohol complaints. Sort of a zombie movie, where the smallest drop of alcohol turns loving intelligent humans into wife beating, vice-addled, prostitutes. This is one of the best issues of Comics with Problems, happy holidays.

CLICK TO READ COMICS WITH PROBLEMS #65

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Thursday, November 13, 2014:

News Update:
Wilcock on Dr Moreno / Mutation Zine / Radio-Wire #2 / A Treasury of Mini Comics

Wow, has it really been three months since we've updated this front page? Outrageous! Well, that means a few cool things to write about here:

1) IMPROMPTU MAN — biography of Psychodrama's Dr Moreno, includes the two Woody Allen and Psychodrama pages from the John Wilcock comic.

Back in October of 2013, Scott and I published two comics on Boing Boing about Woody Allen and his experiences with the experimental theater improv called Psychodrama:

Part one
Part two

A few months later Boing Boing was contacted by Dr JL Moreno's son, Jonathan D Moreno, who was finishing up work on a biography of his father, and wanted to include the Woody Allen comic pages as supplementary material. It's a terrific book (and Jonathan has a remarkable bio, himself) - The two pages that feature the John Wilcock comic look great printed, too. We're delighted to be included in this book (published by Bellevue Literary Press, NYU School of Medicine, hot doggies!)

Pick up a copy of IMPROMPTU MAN on Amazon

2) MUTATION ZINE — cool rizograph printed zine from UK
Another fun thing that showed up in the mail: Hadn't added a piece to an anthology in a few years, but had a request from the Mutation Zine in UK, who were printing a booklet with a Risograph, in green and black. Fun equipment. I'll post my page from the zine in a minute—it's a fun one.

Check out the Mutation Zine site
(good music selection there, too)

3) A second issue of RADIO WIRE
I am -extremely- happy to mention work on the second issue of Radio Wire is now finished and I'll be posting it within the week.

Here's a small preview of the second issue:

4) A treasury of MINI COMICS
Other good news that will be appearing in the mail in about a month: Found out two pieces of mine were selected for Fantagraphics' upcoming Treasury of Mini Comics collection. This is a lovely looking book, video below.

Ordering information on Treasury of Mini Comics

As for personal work that's included: You'll see the George Bush Tijuana Bible collected here (yippee!) and a very hard to find piece of mine, an issue of Plastic Tales from the 1990s, reprinted in full and in color at the end of the book. Here's video from Fantagraphics:

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Friday, August 8, 2014:

Comics with Problems #64:
THE TANTRUMS OF LIL' BESS

Very weird batch of comics here, a complete set of mail-order religious comics from 1945. Emphasis of these is on physically disciplining the star of the series, Lil Bess - who we get to watch grow from infancy to the age of five, one pamphlet for each year alive. There's a lot that should be of interest to those of you interested in religious messages, but the comic will also appeal to others for its crazy drawing style that recalls Justin Green's Binky Brown.

Read THE TANTRUMS OF LIL' BESS

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Featured work:

Teddy and RADIO WIRE
Love stories (see also)

LIVE AT HARRY'S LOFT
Music, Now available in the U.S.

JOHN WILCOCK: New York Years
By Ethan Persoff and Scott Marshall

1957 atomic revolution comic book
Lucky find