Mike Sterling's Progressive RuinRaining on your parade since 1969

And the weird thing is that I can almost remember drawing this one.

§ June 9th, 2025 § Filed under wood eye § 5 Comments

Okay, more morning medical stuff this week, so I’ll keep this concise…or, at least, concise for me, Sir Types-A-Lot. But anyway, if you’ve been following along for a while, you know about my 1990s Brush with ‘Zines, where a bunch of pals and I were part of a “publishing” “group” named “Full Frontal Harvey” (called so, of course, after Harvey Keitel’s turn in Bad Lieutenant).

Among the many publications was one from which this website gets its name, Mike Sterling’s Progressive Ruin, written and drawn by yours truly, Michael Ricardo Anatoly Sterling. You can read about it in this post here, where you will notice one of the features of this publication was an original drawing by me of a monster on each and every back cover.

Foolishly I didn’t document the monsters at the time, but my friend William sent in a picture of his copy, which you can see in the above linked post. And pal Ben sent along a pic of his.

And then the other day my very longtime customer Corey came into the shop…I remember this fella from my previous place of employment, when he was just a little tiny kid, so of course now, decades later, he just towers over me. But he’s still a friendly guy and still loves comics and oh, he also had a collection of Full Frontal Harvey publications, including the one under discussion today. Corey was good enough to send along a photo of his, and here we go:

Now, the interesting thing about this one…all the monsters have names, but a few were named after specific people. In particular, they were named after the FFH regulars, like old friend Rob, or me, or Fred, or, like the example here, after pal Cully, whom you occasionally see in my comments sections.

So that’s one more Special Monster Friend down. I would at the very least like to find the one I named after myself. I’m sure it’s the handsomest monster around.