Zonkboard Comics

For awhile, at The Real World...Blogger Style!, we'd make these online comics using text from our real zonkboard conversations:

Example Zonkboard comic.

TNC

Meeting underground comics creator, Joyce Farmer, of Tits N Clits fame.

Laguna Beach, CA; March, 2014.

Nelda introduced me to her when she came into the library to get help loading eBooks onto her Kindle before leaving on a speaking tour.  I was star struck.

Later, she even signed my collection! 

Joyce Farmer.

Signed copies.

Enhanced Peanuts

Peanuts strip customized my James A.

[Originally posted on I'm Nacho Steppinstone, Jan. 8, 2005]

How It Happened

Azar's Big Boy restaurant in Fort Wayne used to give out free Big Boy comics.  I saved this section at some point during high school and kept it pinned to a bulletin board in my room for years.  It always made me laugh. I probably still have it.

Why are you here?

[Originally posted on I'm Nacho Steppinstone, Nov. 7, 2004]

Michiana Comicon

Wow - $1.00 comic con admission. This was 1983-84 in the midwest, so it was nothing like today's Comic Cons. They even spelled it as one word: "Comicon." Our friends John & Dickey invited me and brother Todd to go with them. It was amazeballs at the time. I forget what city it was in. Maybe Elkhart?

Admit One: $1.00.

Todd got a copy of G.I. Joe #10 signed by the artist. I bought a bunch of titles I couldn't get anywhere else, like Judge Dredd, or obscure independent titles Johnny Nemo. A lot of them weren't all that great, but I was all about seizing an opportunity to encounter something new and weird that I might not find anywhere else. 

Johnny Nemo image taken from an eBay ad. I bought these three same issues.

Bag It Up

The awesome store bag for Secret Headquarters comic shop, Los Angeles, CA.

Secret Headquarters store bag.