First is how this appeared inside the (what many consider) greatest fanzine of all time, Squa Tront #4, then how it appeared on the umpteenth printing of the underground, Junkwaffel #2. Coupla things: I personally don't think of ST4 as the greatest fanzine (although it is stored in my short box of ALL the greatest fanzines), and this latter printing of Junkwaffel 2 isn't cause I'm indifferent (it is, after all, how we first saw Cobalt 60), but all the printings of Junkwaffel look the same to me, so I kept the cheapest versions and sold the first printings I originally got at the head shops
Jerry Weist was a kid when he started Squa Tront, just like so many of the publishers of the most lavishly illustrated fanzines of the era. But you're right, it's not the greatest, maybe partly because it was weak in the literary department, which surely elevated when John Benson came in. But back then, before Heavy Metal, before Ariel, it was some of the most beautiful printed work that comics fans could get their hands on. I vaguely remember being surprised by the intrusion of the best fan artists in Ivie's Monsters and Heroes and the Monster Times.
ReplyDeleteAs for Bode, some of my favorite stuff of his is about to be collected: https://imagecomics.com/comics/releases/complete-deadbone-erotica-omnibus-hc-vol-1
Thanks so much for the delightful comment. I've become very enriched in my comicfan knowledge by you and a coupla others over the course of this blog, and I'm most grateful
DeleteOoops! While dig'n your response yesterday, I forgot how I wanted to chime in on the "kid publishers of the most lavishly illustrated fanzines." Billy G put'n out The Collector has gotta be my personal fav-after six or seven years, he stopped publishing cause he was off to college, and about when I was off to college
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