Comic Quest: Captain Marvels

Comic Quest window art, Lake Forest:

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.

Bag It Up

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

Secret Headquarters store bag.

"Sit On It!"

Manhunter to Green Lantern: "Sit on it!" (Justice League of America #141, 1977).

In 1977, Happy Days was the number-one TV show in America for the third year in a row. Fonzie merchandise was everywhere, and people of all ages loved quoting “the Fonz.” I can’t help but wonder whether having an alien use Arthur Fonzarelli’s catchphrase was an unconscious choice by this comic book's writer or an intentional joke. The phrase was so ubiquitous in 1977, audiences may not have even noticed it, but forty years later, it stands out as a remarkably strange thing for an alien to say.

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.

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.