Who Are You?

[Sir Real]

Looking through the members list, it occurs to me that it doesn't say very much about each member.  Therefore, I made up a small list of fill-in-the-blank questions/items so we can know our fellow members a bit better.

I'll go first...


Name/Handle/Nick:
Sir Real

Collecting Since:
1978

Location:
Los Angeles area

# of Comix in Your Collection:
~2,000

Most Prized:
Drawing of Sir Real by Jay Lynch

Favorite Comix(s):
Fat Freddy's Cat
Dopin' Dan

Favorite Artist(s):
Vaughn Bodé
Ed Watson
Tim Boxell
Richard V. Corben
Robert Williams

Finish this sentence: "You know you're a comix collector when..."
Funny.  Can't think of a thing for this one.

Other than UGComix collecting, any other hobbies?
Stage Acting
Trumpet (Concert Band)
Road-Apple Collecting Service

In your comix collecting/habit, what do you feel most guilty about?
I feel guilty about not immediately answering e-mails from the general public.

[Comix Junky]

Name/Handle/Nick:
Comix Junky

Collecting Since:
mid 70's

Location:
Rochester NY

# of Comix in Your Collection:
about 500 (but i've scanned and read all of Zonker's)

Most Prized:
Radical America Komiks

Favorite Comix(s):
American Flyer
Anomaly 4
Armadillo 2
Balloon Vendor
Book of Raziel
Brain Fantasy
California Comics
Dr. Atomic
Eternal
Fat Freddy's Cat
Facts o' Life
Fantagor
Feds 'n' Heads
Fever Dreams
Freak Bro.
Graphixus
Grim Wit
Harold Hedd
Hydrogen Bomb and Biochemical  Warfare Funnies
It's A Dog's Life
Jesus (but i hate FS's other works)
Kingdom of Heaven is Within You
Little Green Dinosaur
Maus
Meef
Mom's Homemade
Moonchild
Moondog
Mother's Oats
Quagmire
Radical America Komiks
Realm 6
Rowlf
Slow Death
Smile
Spasm!
Sphinx
Swamp Fever
Tales of the Leather Nun
Tales from the Tube
Tales of the Armorkins
Tasty 2
Tesserae 7
Tits & Clits
Tits & Clits Comix
Up From The Deep
Wet Satin
Yellow Dog

Favorite Artist(s):
Sheridan & Schrier (Overland vedgible Stagecoach)
Rick Griffin
Rand Holmes
Shelton
Larry Todd
John Thompson
Wally Wood
Corben
... (somewhere way down in the middle of the list)...
Crumb

Finish this sentence: "You know you're a comix collector when..."
... it doesn't bother you that a long running "series" is only 6 issues and reprinted for 30 years.

Other than UGComix collecting, any other hobbies?
Sci-Fi cons,

In your comix collecting/habit, what do you feel most guilty about?
You think I'm gonna tell ya?

[wpbooks]

Name
WPBOOKS


Collecting
Comics - 1967
Comix - 1973


Location
SF, CA


# Of Comix in my collection
about 250 +/-


Most Prized
Plymell Zap 1


Favorite Comix
Bijou #8

Favorite Artists
Crumb
Irons
Lynch
Spiegelman
Flenniken


Finish Sentence:
....when you really give a shit about the last number in a number line and if pages are in the correct order, and if the thickness of the cover is x, and if the color of the distal tear is y and if Plymell's name is on the back, and if the price on the cover is 35 cents and on and on and on when in reality and for all intents and purposes the contents are all identical....as opposed to our brethren in the 'comics' world who wouldn't stoop to becoming detectives if their lives depended upon it....because that is what we are...not comix collectors but comix dicks in the clean sense of the term..eh...Eh....EH!


Other Hobbies
Obsessive Film Viewing
Old Trading Cards
1st edition books
The Old In-Out
Jazz


Guilty About
Nuffim

[mrbillscomix]

Name/Handle/Nick:
mrbillscomix

Collecting Since:
1975 but probably received my first UG around 1977.

Location:
Southeastern Nebraska (I could name the town but everyone
would say where the hell is that)

# of Comix in Your Collection:
~no clue... under 5,000 (includes both my uncle's books and my stuff)

Most Prized:
JK guide that my uncle signed to me. He also had quite a few folks sign it too.
It's the only copy I work from.  I have a few that are worth some bucks but that book means more to me.

Favorite Comix(s):
Snatch
Freak Brothers
Fat Freddy's Cat

Favorite Artist(s):
Robert Crumb
Rory Hayes
Robert Williams
To name a few....

Finish this sentence: "You know you're a comix collector when..."
you tell someone that you collect snatch and you don't understand why the first thing that comes to their mind isn't a comic.

Other than UGComix collecting, any other hobbies?
Landscaping
Tending to my koi pond
Craps tables... anywhere.

In your comix collecting/habit, what do you feel most guilty about?
Not being more organized with my UG books.  A spreadsheet is the only thing
that shows me what I have but I don't have a clue where it is.

[zonker]

Name/Handle/Nick:
Zonker Harris

Collecting Since:
Undergrounds - 1971
Marvels  -  1975  (that's right, i discovered Marvels AFTER undergrounds)

Location:
Rochester NY

# of Comix in Your Collection:
rughly 1800

Most Prized:
All obtained pre-ebay:
Some in bad shape. None slabbed:
Air Pirates
Air Pirates tabloid
Black Man
Bode Broads
Book of Raziel
Color
Eternal
Feds 'n' Heads  (2nd print)
Gothic Blimp  Works 8
Hydrogen  Bomb and....
Illuminations
Illustrated Checklist
Kid's Lib  Coloring Book
Kingdom of Heaven is  Within You
Light
Man From Utopia
Moonchild 1&2 (1968-69)
Orange Bodé
Realm 6
Rowlf  (my first underground)
Slow Death 1 (1st print)
Sphinx 2&3
Sunpot
Tales from  the Tube
Tales of the Armorkins (1st & 2nd prints)
Tasty 2
Toxic Flange
Uncle Sam  Takes LSD
Venture
Weirdom 15
Wonder  Warthog  mag 1&2
Yellow Dog tabloids (reprints)
Zero 1
Not so rare, and few mint.
Just hard for me to find.
It's almost like, the worse shape they're in, the more proud i am.

Most Prized Printings found:
Tales of the  Armorkins -  1st & 2nd printings

Favorite Comix(s):
A long boring list.
I don't see any point in listing my favorites cus i don't care what anybody else's favorites are.

Favorite Artist(s): (ditto, but they deserve recognition)
No particular order
Sheridan, Schrier, Shelton, Griffin, Holmes, Todd, Thompson, Wood,
Eisner, Corben, Trina, Lynch, Bode, Cobb, Colwell, Kitchen,
Crumb is overhyped and is not on my list.

I was NOT going to fill-in this questionare,
But i couldn't resist finishing  the sentence:
"You know you're a comix collector when..."
... you think the "Comix Code Seal" is a round red sticker with a price on it.

Other than UGComix collecting, any other hobbies?
Actually, I stopped collecting (anything) in the late 80's
My main hobby now is website building.
Also: movies, sci-fi, porn

In your comix collecting/habit, what do you feel most guilty about?
Being considered an "Authority".
All the scans people sent me that i lost or didn't use.
Letting UGcomix.info atrophy.
Playing the role of "Impartial Authority" and not expressing my true opinions. (this may change)

I feel slightly guilty about the set of CDs sent to me by another member of this forum.  :-)
(but not guilty enough to say no. Insted i say: Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Send more.)

[zonker]

Hay SR,
Fill out THIS questionare:

Collecting Road Apples Since:


# of Road Apples in Your Collection:


Most Prized:


Favorite Producer of Road Apples:


Favorite Road Apple recipe:


Finish this sentence: "You know you're a Road Apple collector when..."


In your Road Apple collecting/habit, what do you feel most guilty about?

[dr_s]

nick name  doc
location nyc
collecting since 1950  (ugs since help and the realist came out)
# of comics (almost all usgs) about 7-8k
Most prized collection - cover to vamperilla 3
favorite comic   Fever dream - up from the deep - you know early corben
favorite artist - corben - shelton - barks - wood -eisner - raymond -foster

you know your a comic collector when your wife says when are you going to get this shit out of the living room

Other hobbies - collecting turtles

I don't feel guilt - I'm a Republican

[zazz]

Name/Handle/Nick:
zazz

Collecting Since:
mainstream comics since 1980
UG's since mid 90's

Location:
Scottsdale/Phoenix - this could be changing in the next year probably to Denver

# of Comix in Your Collection
5000 or more.... purging my modern mainstream and soon dupes.... that's too many comics to have to move!

Most Prized:
Captain America Comics # 63 and 66 both VF
Cover art to Nextmen 10 (byrne)
Doomsday Comics
Tales from the Ozone 1
Freak Brothers Statues (resin)



Favorite Comix(s):
Freak Brothers - basically anything Shelton.... 
Most Crumb comix
Doomsday Comics
Tales From the Ozone
Cap'n Retro (and all the of the Bryson goodness)
My Gerbers
There are others, too many... fingers will cramp if I list all....

Favorite Artist(s):
Shelton
Douglas Bryson
Crumb
Richard Corben
John Byrne
Tim Vigil
George Perez


Finish this sentence: "You know you're a comix collector when..."
you get a thrill out of getting the mail. ( although I can relate to the wife comment)

Other than UGComix collecting, any other hobbies?
My kids (they are 5 and almost 7)
playing basketball
some computer games (rpg's mostly)

In your comix collecting/habit, what do you feel most guilty about?

"I don;t feel guilt - I'm a Republican"

   ditto................

[Reverend]

Ooh, which RPGs do you play?

[Visitor Q]

Tim Vigil fan, cool.

Just met him last year.

Cool thread, I will post up my info. here sometime soon.

Jason

[zazz]

I was obsessively playing Oblivion for about a year.... I've been wanting to try Fables, but Fables 2 is coming out (unless it's out already).... lately I've been playing Hellgate:London which isn't really a RPG. It's more like Diablo with a Doom perspective... oh and guns.... mindless killing... any suggestions? I have a 19 yr old daughter that was consumed by WoW, but I can't see paying to play a game that I bought -  no I never play Everquest either..... Mostly because I can't spend more than about a couple of hours a week playing - kids.....

[zazz]

And Vigil.... love his art! Faust is awesome if you can get by the all of the graphic violence.... And I actually liked the movie -HA!

[Visitor Q]

And Vigil.... love his art! Faust is awesome if you can get by the all of the graphic violence.... And I actually liked the movie -HA!

Agree, Faust is aweome but the new stuff sucks. When it went to color, yuck!

hahaha The Faust movie was pretty crappy but I can see its charm. Got to love Jeff Combs!

Jason

ps. I am a video game player too.

[Reverend]

The Faust movie was terribly corny, but it had its moments.

[Visitor Q]

The Faust movie was terribly corny, but it had its moments.

Oh I agree but I have seen much worst.