It's a weird world after all.
It's Christmas in July, Mouseketeers, because the highly anticipated new issue of Dummy Zine is out, and it's all about The Mouse!
Back cover ads, just like a real comic!
If you haven't ordered yours yet, you gotta get on that! I'm gonna pore over this thing for the rest of the afternoon.
I'm about three-quarters of the way through Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life by Dan Nadel. It's really good, highly recommended.
Reading it doesn't make me feel like I missed out on "the sixties" so much, but it does make it seem like it was a great time to be involved in comics fandom. As kids Crumb and his brother collect Carl Barks and Walt Kelly comics obsessively and contribute to comics fanzines. Terry Zwigoff teaches classes on Barks comics before managing a comic shop, which he then quits to join a bluegrass band with Crumb and Robert Armstrong, creator of Mickey Rat. The other Zap guys are all Barks-heads too; as idiosyncratic and unique as they are, the influence of the Good Duck Artist is clear as day.
Neat to think that the hip, cutting-edge transgressive artistes of yore were all big Donald Duck and Little Lulu fans.
Well, that's it. I can officially retire from comic book collecting, because I did it. I FUCKIN DID IT:
I finally completed my set of Air Pirates Funnies.
Yes, I know about Dan O'Neill's Comics and Stories, and the Tortoise and the Hare, and Dirty Duck, and the Air Pirates newspaper, but I don't care. Like Ash Katchum, I caught them all.
Stay tuned for this blog's new focus: Collecting Loungefly backpacks.
Some (relatively) work-safe pages from 1976's Bicentennial Gross-Outs:
Mitch Lohmeier's funny animal true crime epic Michael Mouse, starring his own totally unique and original characters, is now available to order through Previews.
Go get it, ya mugs!
I am home sick with Captain Trips, so I took the opportunity to finally read this oddity I came across recently: a funny-animal detective...
