With housemate Sam due back any day it’s time to stop procrastinating and start sorting all the small press comics on the living room floor, so I’ve spent this morning putting them into alphabetical piles, not order, piles. Actual anal levels of sorting can follow later. Interesting observation, other than that there are more letters in the alphabet than my back can stand and that I don’t own any SP comics beginning with the letter Q: the more “professional” the format, the less inspiring. The pile of US comic format comics were, with some exceptions, pretty ordinary while the A6 and A7 minis were like sifting through gold for more gold. Smaller is better, limitations are possibilities, obscurity is inspirational, etc…
That settles it. My next small press effort will either be printed postage stamp sized or on the head of a pin. A guarantee of quality. Know what you mean though, Pete. Tone and I were only discussing ‘Psyence Fiction’ yesterday.
Sounds like you are having a blast. You love it really.
I bet you don’t have a copy of The Dream Zone.
I bet Anna wants to have a big conversation with you about databases and archive organisation…
Must fill in the gap — I’ll call my next comic Quetzal Avocado Startup Plan.
No Matt I do not want to inflict my rants about archival provenance on anyone else unless they Really convince me that they want to hear it.
‘Archival provenance?’ Sounds like a religious doctrine or a song by a really gonzo Death-metal band.
‘quantum’ have stepped into the ‘q’ on the ZUM! catalogue…
but it’s a scifi superhero thing…