Fanboy! The Comic Book That Comes Double Bagged
(small press version, 1988)

Collects the Fanboy strips from Captain Saucer and elsewhere, plus some new material, from 1981 through late' 88. The strips were not printed in chronological order in which they were drawn, but were arranged to from a vague story arc. Some people may assume that the cover was New Wave influenced, but it was actually "Weimar Mod" and Bauhaus influenced. A friendly professor gave me an issue of "Deütsche Künst und Deköration" from the late '20s; ünd, Ach dü Lieber!, I just plain like that stark Teutonic look. This first incarnation of Fanboy was a small press version that actually did come double bagged had the United Fanzine Organization (UFO) seal and check list.

Also note the two color key-lined xerographic "Corrigan*-color" covers. "Corrigan*-color" is injoke because some people actually used the term, but it wasn't called "Corrigan-color" when Doug Holverson invented it! Once upon a time (say the middle to late '80s) a certain self proclaimed "king" of small press comics abandoned, betrayed, bad mouthed, and dumped on the first version of InterStellar OverDrive (that I initially specially wrote for him) and me while ripping off my style of key-lined xerography right down to the brand name of the copier. However, he claimed that you couldn't do bleeds or print a comic book sized book. Actually, one could, but he lacked my technical aptitude and insight; so I did it in this comic sized book with bleeds just to show him how it's really done.
> Moral: "Small press can be weird...."

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Fanboy! The Comic Book That Comes Double Bagged
(indie version, 1989)

The second incarnation of this book was an "indie" (independent publisher) direct market version, still coming double bagged, with four color covers and four more pages of material and the UFO checklist and seal deleted. I had a gut feeling that this could be the "sleeper" comic of '89 (and maybe help out the first series InterStellar OverDrive on its bootstraps), but, of course that was not to be as sales severely tanked in the direct market.

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Epic F*U*N (in the Kingdom of Nowhere) With Fanboy
(1986)

This one is a big "what was I thinking about" from the '80s. An adults only and very sloppy, garish, in your face, over the top parody of Fantasy, Swords and Sorcery, Heavy Metal Magazine (e.g.: "Den" in particular) that has to be seen to be believed.

This originally started out as a four page strip for the above Fanboy book and took on a life on it's own when it spawned three and a half sequels that sprawled across 20 pages. One publisher was interested, but backed out because he didn't like the color on the covers. A fan in Minneapolis tried to get a comic company up there to publish the book, but that also went nowhere. It finally was self published as an unholy hybrid that was neither quite "small press" or "indie".

BTW- Despite this, as for my feelings about Richard Corben is like when Wayne's World Wayne and Garth meet a '70s rock star "I'm not worthy!"