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By (sorta) request, we begin the Ballad of Johnny McPhanbot:
We begin with the glamourshots from glamourpuss #7:
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| The First appearance of the Man, the Myth, The McPhanbot! (If you got one, I'd get it slabbed by CGC.) |
Dave didn't respond, and this letter implies the existence of an earlier unpublished letter (I went back and checked, and glamourpuss 1-6 contain NO letters from Johnny Mcphanbot, a GRAVE injustice that all men of goodwill must NOT let stand. #PleaseHoldForDaveSim!) But he already has the Lord Julius Like-A-Look photo (which, ISN'T Johnny, according to the disclaimer...)
Johnny next showed up in the glamourshots for glamourpuss Issue #11:
Now Dave responds, but only to request that Johnny comes clean with his secret idolatry, and we get a missive from one Sean Robinson, I wonder whatever happened to THAT GUY?!? Also, the Lord Julius Like-A-Look photo has no disclaimer.
Our dear Mr. McPhanbot next rears his head (you RAISE hogs, you REAR heads (but only on alternate Tuesdays, and ONLY if it's during one of the six months with less than seven letters in its name... #ProTip),) in the glamourshots from glamourpuss #13:
Johnny next appears in a two-fer from the glamourshots for glamourpuss #14:
Okay, it's not really a "two-fer", but a "one and a half-fer" sounds like the kind of illegal activity one used to only see late at night on the Cinemax cable channel (and in earlier days as a scrambled mess on the pay-per-view channels that we didn't know how to unlock. Ah, memories...)
Next Time: Hobbs.
3 comments:
Funny! I never know Dave published my glamourpuss paragraph. If I remember correctly, it was just an aside in a larger letter about Going Home? I wrote Dave several overly-long letters around this time regarding cartooning and Cerebus, to which he kindly responded. Generous guy, that Dave Slim.
I bought them in the U District, at the little shop right across the street from Hot Mama's Pizza, about a five minute bike ride from Cafe Racer, Seattle's cartoonist hot spot.
Yay! A long-overdue reappearance of Max Ink's "BLINK" ladies! One of the very best self-published comics of the 21st century. Seriously, if you haven't read it, go to his website and order one of everything. Especially the print of Blink and Sam reading the Sunday "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip.
Whatever it is... I'm against it!
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