WaP! #7: The Penultimate Issue The Forgotten Activist Prozine Continued: Part 16 WaP! #7 was comparitively modest 20-page issue, with no postdate (the issues were now mailed in a flat envelope). This issue sported my one and only WaP! cover art (above), caricaturing the leaked memo from Texan comics retailer Buddy Saunders. As a lifelong fan [...]
WaP!: The Self-Publishing Issue The Forgotten Activist Prozine Continued: Part 15 WaP! #6 was a fat 28-page issue, postdated October 24, 1988 on my copy. The lead feature was a concise, to-the-point overview of the logistics of self-publishing in principal and practice by none other than Dave Sim. It’s still an essential read, and a call [...]
WaP!: “Alan Moore: A Letter from England” The Forgotten Activist Prozine: Part 10 Alan Moore was at the heart of the controversies that prompted the creation of WaP!, but Alan never really involved himself in collectivist ventures. And believe you me, I tried: the creator rights activism was very important to me at the time [...]
Star Trek, Balloons, & Scotland Yard Intrigues Also: Celebrating John Constantine’s 25th Birthday On a whim, I posted three Bissette Star Trek monster sketches for sale with rare, still-in-the-shrinkwrap collectible Star Trek Peter Pan Records 45 RPMs (1979) on Facebook over the weekend, and one of ‘em sold: a color Horta sketch, with record. Above is [...]
Making Sense of the Muck & Mire Social Media & Reinvented Histories Redux My deepest thanks to all who ordered anything during the three SpiderBaby Store “free Swamp Thing head sketch” (sample, above, and in-process sketch, below, left) test marketing periods. I began by offering a free Swamp Thing head sketch via Facebook posts only; [...]
