Back in the old days, like before the web was all that, you know, 1997 or thereabouts, BugPowder was not a website but a mail order service for small press and mini comics from all over the world. One of the non-UK cartoonists I was really pleased to be selling was Canadian (I think, or was he a Yank?) Robin Bougie who along with a select gang of tooners published their comics under the banner “Minds Eye Comics Presents”. What made them special was the range. One comic I remember was called Vincent starring a toy panda and other random soft toys Bougie and his girlfriend had picked up at thrift stores – all very cute and nice. Then on the other hand he’d do some of the most explicit depraved sex-stuff while keeping a definite sense of humour going.
Whatever, I was delighted to stumble across his name at the top of the hundred worst porn movie titles page (I said delighted, not surprised) and while that link didn’t I went a googling. And there he was, still drawing and, it seems, still publishing zines.
Oh happy day…