Here We Go, #4: Point Drawn no. 1 (1986)
Berkeley: B. N. Duncan, 1986. First Printing. Wraps. 8.5 x 11" stapled pages with white tape spine, very good, light wear and soil. Handwritten by Duncan on inside front page: "Dec. 30-31, 1986. 40 copies made." 134 pp of comics, xerox art, photos, jokes, raunch, flights of fancy, etc. Duncan (1943-2009) was a fixture in the Berkeley street scene -- sometimes homeless -- and a gifted and raunchy comic artist. As part of an obituary in the Comics Reporter, Peter Bagge provided an account of Duncan during this period in his life: Bagge was one of Duncan's editors at Weirdo, and noted that the overtly sexual nature of Duncan's work could be alarming in any context. "His work was all about his obsessions," Bagge wrote CR, "specifically sado-masochistic sex, but he also was a compulsive philosophizer and art critic. He would babble on forever (both in person but especially in letters or in print) about what struck his fancy and why. This was especially true of comic art, though hardly limited to it. Many found his SM-inspired work distasteful (people were generally very uptight about such things back in the '80s -- especially women, who found such images much more threatening than they do these days, where the trappings of bondage and discipline have become common fashion accessories), and his crude drawing style didn't help to endear his work to many folks either. Still, I think his drawings had an odd charm to them, and I also thought he was a pretty good gag writer, even if his 'jokes' were almost always mere projections of his own quirks and obsessions." As expected, OCLC/Worldcat could locate no holdings of this publication in any institution. Very good. Item #H26463
Price: $175.00