Bayou Collection of Underground Comix
. . .it doesn't get any better than this!
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3 new acquisitions in '09.
The Mr Natural #2 is an upgrade for me, improving upon my CGC 8.5 copy.
One step closer to my namesake...
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My wife has agreed in principle to an Assistant Professor post with the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) General Studies Department. The department is located in the newly renovated Grohmann Museum, which houses a large collection of labor and industry themed art.
More about MSOE: MSOE is a small urban campus of approximately 2,500 students located on 16 acres in downtown Milwaukee, WI (including at least two old Blatz Brewing buildings). MSOE is better known regionally, and is currently ranked among the best of Midwestern colleges by both U.S. News & World Report and the Princeton Review. MSOE competes in NCAA Division III athletics with 21 men?s and women?s teams, including ice hockey, soccer & basketball... and they are undefeated in football since 1903.
The ladies dig the FEDS N HEADS...
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A sneak preview of my 1st big purchase of the year...
The Jim Mahfood Checklist...
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The checklist has not been updated in almost a year, so it will not reflect Foodone's most recent works.
JimMahfood_CHECKLIST_070207.xls
But some things one just has to put out there and this is one of those things that does not deserve to be lost just because I was too lazy to pull it off my 3yr old work PC.
Puttin' the backbone back... new purchases!
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However, I recently committed to purchasing a few undergrounds that have me excited for 2008.
First, RTS Unlimited (Lakewood, CO) sent me their full catalog around the New Year. That gave me the change to scour the listings for any remaining "IRS Collection" underground comix, and I was surprised to find some! I have ordered the following infamous copies & they should arrive soon:
- VFNM Den #2 (IRS10236) $4.00
- VFNM Den #3 (IRS10237) $5.00
- VFNM Witzend #11 (IRS11689) $45.00
Also... I have committed to purchasing a "grail" comix that I have been seeking for a year now, but it is perhaps best not to taunt the fates with hubris until I complete the transaction.
MORE COMING SOON!
Morse Funnies... perhaps the most over-rated UG ever!
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A recent "sketchy" auction of Morse Funnies (2nd printing I believe) passed recently, and a few comments by fellow collectors got me thinking of this book. I say sketchy b/c the auction was pulled by eBay and by nearly all accounts appeared to use a hijacked scan. However, the verdict may be out on the legitimacy of the most recent auction, but I am breaking from previous declarations## to claim MORSE FUNNIES to be guilty of being the most over-rated underground comix ever!
Albert Morse was an attorney on the Walt Disney v Air Pirates case, in 1972, when Bobby London gave him an original cartoon he had drawn (about Morse) and which was subsequently printed in Merton of the Movement. The original cartoon drawing hung in his office and supposedly inspired other cartoonists to either gift him pages or exchange original art (OA) for legal services. Eventually Morse collected enough OA pages that he decided to self-publish a limited collection of the art titled Morse Funnies.
Perhaps this quote captures it best...
"Morse's Funnies was a unique event in the world history of comic book art. Never before or after has anyone been in tune enough with his own egomania and sense of the surreal and bizarre reality of existence to commission ( it has never been clear as to why the artists participated in this endeavor) the creation of a comic book to celebrate his own naked madness." - Avo Zazek, Marxist Psychoanalyst, from his long out of print and untranslated Slovenian treatise entitled Art and Egomania.
## But see also http://www.comicspriceguide.com/forum2/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=25851&SearchTerms=albert,morse
Just starting out collecting underground comix?
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http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2148497
Getting started...
?I want to add some underground comix (UGs; u-comix) to my collection, but don?t know enough about them to buy confidently.?
For underground comix collectors, this sentiment is often heard and easily understood. When I first began discovering u-comix in the digital age (c. 2002), I was amazed at the paucity of publicly-held knowledge on UGs. After being gifted a few UG reprints, I watched eBay auctions on Zap Comix & Freak Brothers for the better part of two (2) years and learned one thing? there are so many different printings of these books!
Did you know that as of 1982, Zap Comix #1 had gone through an estimated 17 printings, totaling around 300,000 comics? The real printing sequences may never fully be understood by modern day collectors (e.g. Zap Comix #1 3rd or Bogeyman #3), as we are now almost 40 years removed from the sources.
Determining first (or early), more valuable printings from later ones remains important to value-minded collectors.
Re-vamped freewebs, new additions, & u-comix goals for 2008...
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I have set the blog to "no comments" to prevent spam, but I welcome communications from u-comix collectors and friends at justin.environmentalscientist@gmail.com or by your comments in my Guest Book.
Finally, I have set some collecting goals for 2008 that I thought I would share...
- Scan all slabbed u-comix in my collection;
- Slab my ZAP COMIX #0 (1st);
- Slab my ZAP COMIX #1 (1st);
- Acquire FEDS N HEADS (1st) in VGFN or better;
- Acquire ZAP COMIX #2 (1st w/ Heads First miscut) in VF;
- Homegrown hardcovers (bound volumes) of ZAP COMIX #0-15 and FREAK BROS. #0-13
- Acquire content;
- Have bound at Library Binding Co. (Waco, TX).
- Sell "straight" modern comics and otherwise minimize & specialize in u-comix.
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