I recovered a couple of boxes of comics from Chris's attic at the weekend, and checking through to see what I've been without for the last few years, I found some old issues of Zot!. I've mentioned this one before in connection with the online Zot story Hearts and Minds (today's Link of the Day, coincidentally). The issues I was looking at are from the black and white run, which came a couple of years after the original colour series. One of the letters welcoming the series back was from a man called Jim Bricker, who was the creator of a fabulous series called Open Season, which I used to own, but which were lost when a load of my comics vanished with the person who was storing them for me about 10 years ago.
Open Season was, in style, more like a comic strip than a comic book. It was the story of three flatmates in (I think) San Francisco, and was a 'funny book' in every sense of the phrase. Not a typical comic by any means, it told the story of the slightly surreal lives of this rather mismatched trio with a huge amount of wit, humour and intelligence. I loved it to bits, and I curse that my copies aren't with me any longer. It only ran for about six issues, but they were six wonderful examples of the comic-creating art.
Just one of those fond little memories that occasionally get triggered.
By the way - Teresa at Making Light also demonstrates her admirable erudition in her recent comments on the subject of Amazon.com's more twisted errors of attribution.
Dear old GW Bush - having apparently demonstrated that he didn't know there were black people in Brazil in conversation with the Brazilian President, he's provided an excellent opening for this lovely observation on Making Light.
[Via Sore Eyes]