Most comics people got to know me as the editor of The Kindlin' Quarterly, a quirky underground anthology on its 8th issue. What you don't know is that I've been making similar publications since I was in grade school.
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| The Summersville Gazette |
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| Excerpt from Star Trek: The Next Generation News |
In addition to a few short-lived newsletter attempts, in 1994 I made The Summersville Gazette, mostly about my dog Butter and distributed to immediate family members.
Next came Star Trek: The Next Generation News, also in 1994, which featured summaries of recent episodes of the show and swooning digressions about Commander Will Riker.
And then there was...
The Stoopid Krap News flopped into the world as the creative outlet for a lonely kid with a weird sense of humor and unlimited access to a copy machine. On Sunday afternoons, my dad paid me to clean the office of the small engineering firm he owned, and after the toilets were scrubbed, I cut, pasted, and copied (the old-fashioned way) until my mom came to pick me up wearing her nightgown.
I cranked out sixteen Wingding-laden issues from 1995 to 1997, with no regularity in length or frequency. The Stoopid Krap News was distributed to a total of six people (my brother and five friends) and came with a strict warning that NO parent should ever see it, lest I be shut down.
Heavily influenced by MAD Magazine, the content varied from fake news articles about the school bully's rumored incestuous background, drawings of the math teacher's haircut, comics on college-ruled notebook paper, and my rantings about the world at large. Most of the features only made sense at the time, but some of it is relevant outside of the junior high classroom and still tickles my funny bone.
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