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Small Press Saturday #1.

§ October 23rd, 2021 § Filed under saturday, wood eye § 3 Comments

So as I’ve mentioned several times in the past, the name of this website comes from a mini-comics digest I published in 1998 (under the “Full Frontal Harvey” banner, a shared local comics ‘zine thing that former coworker Rob started up…name explained in my first anniversary post).


And come to think of it, my date of “death” on the tombstone becomes increasingly less humorous as the years dart by. But anyway, this was a collection of comics ‘n’ stuff I drew for the FFH flagship anthology title Wood-Eye, a scattering of pages from my solo mini-comic Lookit! along with some new material. (Here’s a sample.)

Some of what counted, I think, as new material, and what counted for sure as extra work for me, was the “Your Special Monster Friend” back cover, where I would draw and name an original monster on each and every distributed copy of Mike Sterling’s Progressive Ruin the printed-on-dead-trees comical book.


However, this being 1998 and not having regular access to a scanner or even a digital camera, I did not document the many, many monsters I drew on these back covers. I do remember that there were monsters named after me, former coworker Rob, our pal and FFH member Fred, and other friends, but I retain no memory of what any of them look like. The monsters, not my friends and me.

But in swoops old pal William (who probably also had a monster named after him) to the rescue, as he dug out his copy and sent me a pic of the monster I drew thereupon. BEHOLD…CHAD:


Thus, at long last, I have at least one catalogued example of a Special Monster Friend in my records, 23 years after the fact.

Snoopy Saturday #1.

§ December 14th, 2013 § Filed under saturday § 3 Comments

LIFTING THE DOGHOUSE

DISRUPTS THE INTERDIMENSIONAL PORTAL

from Peanuts #6 (August-October 1960)

Starmasters Saturday #1.

§ October 5th, 2013 § Filed under saturday § 4 Comments

A MISSED OPPORTUNITY

FOR THE SCI-FIVE

from Starmasters #2 (January 1996) by Mark Gruenwald, Scot Eaton and Bob Almond

Sub-Mariner Saturday #3.

§ March 30th, 2013 § Filed under saturday § 4 Comments

THE SUB-MARINER:

MURDEROUS COQUETTE OF THE SEVEN SEAS

from All-Winners Comics #2 (Fall 1941)
– reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: All-Winners Comics Nos. 1-4 (2005)

Stargrave Saturday #1.

§ December 29th, 2012 § Filed under saturday § 10 Comments

NORMALLY A JOKE OR COMMENT WOULD GO IN THE CAPTION HERE

BUT WHAT COULD I ADD TO THIS, REALLY

Superboy #224 (February 1977) – reprinted in Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 13
by Jim Shooter, Mike Grell and Bob Wiacek

Sub-Mariner Saturday #2.

§ December 1st, 2012 § Filed under saturday § 8 Comments

THE SPAM

IT’S ALL TRUE

Sub-Mariner Comics #31 (April 1949) – cover by Gustav Schrotter
– image from the Grand Comics Database

Satan Saturday #4.

§ September 22nd, 2012 § Filed under saturday § 5 Comments

THE TENTH CIRCLE OF HELL:

PUNSTERS

from Archie Annual #9 (1957-8)

Slammer Saturday #1.

§ August 11th, 2012 § Filed under saturday § 9 Comments

HMMM, “PRO POG PLAYER”

SEEMS LIKE A GOOD CAREER CHOICE

from the depths of perdition itself (ca. 1994)

Swamp Thing Saturday #1.

§ July 28th, 2012 § Filed under saturday, swamp thing § 12 Comments

IF ONLY THE REAL WORLD

HELD THIS BEAUTIFUL POTENTIAL

from Archie Double Digest #229 (2012) – special thanks to Mike Nielsen

Shipwreck Saturday #1.

§ June 30th, 2012 § Filed under saturday § 6 Comments

THE REAL REASON FOR G.I. JOE: RETALIATION‘S DELAY

NOT ENOUGH SCENES WITH THE SINGING PARROT

from G.I. Joe Special Missions #1 (October 1986) by Larry Hama and Herb Trimpe

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