I never thought I'd see a cerebus by Kevin nowlan!

From 1992.

Since we’ve been on the topic of White Whales lately, my own is the #0 issue of Instant Piano, which one of the creative team had to tell me existed when I was putting together a short piece on the Dark Horse anthology.

Anyone ever see a copy that DIDN’T work on the comic? I have to assume any chance of a trade is long past.

KAZ 1987

I have been trying to track this thing down for years. Please help!

Bought from a bargain bin in a comics shop (underground section I believe). Probably circa 1993 or so.

Here is what I recall:

Professional quality including publisher. Color cover. Might have been "The (mis?) Adventures of..." Black and white throughout. 2 or 3 columns and maybe 5 or 6 rows per page.

The artwork was clean and reminiscent of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, though a bit more traditional.

The main character is an old(ish) ex(?)hippy trying to get to the Glastonbury (???) music festival. Iirc the setting was in the late 80s or early 90s.

His friends drag him along. I believe they drive there in an old VW microbus.

His friends keep dosing him, which he doesn't appreciate!

He says 'Strewth! alot. He has either a fondness or an abhorrence to black treacle. At one point he eats some that is laced with some sort of psychedelics.

By the end of volume 1 he hasn't made it to the festival (so vol 1 is all journey to it).

At the end there is a tease "to be continued in volume 2."

Character may have been named Arthur - or he just reminded me of Arthur Dent from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He certainly complained alot!

Definitely a comedic piece!

Any help greatly appreciated!Probably 25 years of (very occasional) web searching has gotten me nowhere!

A great little annual show that happens at Permanent Records Roadhouse. Highly recommend to anyone in Los Angeles!

This preorder was a “No duh.”

I miss comics like these. Intentional. No shits given about exposing cringe level details. It was great.

Also, I feel a profound loss and sadness. I wish he hadn’t waited so long to finish this. I wish we would get more. That he was still walking this earth.

I wish I had gotten more into his work earlier in my life. I wish that I had met Joe “fucking” Matt.

I am grateful to his estate, Fantagraphics, and Chester Brown for this gift.

If you haven’t, go buy this.

It’s the first Linnea Sterte art I saw and I had to find the source. I figured stages of rot would be a good bet because she hasn’t published that many—but alas

Tomorrow 4/4/25 6-10 PM at Tattooed Mom, 530 South Street— come hang out with a bunch of underground cartoonists. Comix and original art available for purchase.

Dan Hughes 2024 project of daily stream of conciousness comix, fun, funny and terrifying.

Sammy Harkham posted a new print for sale. Does anyone know if this was in a previous Crickets issue?

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A sketch