![]() ![]() We produced twenty eight pages in twenty eight consecutive months, and I don’t remember him ever complaining about what I came up with, or asking me to change anything, apart from minor adjustments. Jim would send a script each month with very specific visuals for each panel, and dialogue. Only having to create a page a month allowed me to take my time and dial the art in properly. ![]() We would produce one page of Trucker Fags In Denial per month for Exotic mag. Jim was hired as managing editor for Portland, Oregon strip club ad-rag Exotic magazine, and had more or less free rein. If memory serves, it was a year or so after Jim initially asked me that we began work on Trucker Fags In Denial. I had served as “inker” for cartoonist Peter Bagge’s popular alternative comic Hate, but never had the responsibility of drawing, inking, and lettering a book-length narrative comic by myself. Continuity is crucial, and it requires accurately drawing and inking characters, backgrounds, word balloons, and lettering over and over again, something I really hadn’t done before, other than the few, short experimental comics I did in the 80s and 90s. At first, I was wary of taking on the project, because I knew how much hard work it was to create good “comic” art. It sounded like a hilarious idea to me, especially with Jim Goad writing it. In the early 2000s, Jim wrote and asked whether I was game to do a comic story he had envisioned called Trucker Fags In Denial, featuring the exploits of two obese, closeted gay truck drivers. He liked them, so I contributed artwork to Answer Me! numbers 3 and 4, including the Hitler cover to number 3. I loved it and sent him a package of my publications. I first became aware of Jim Goad when I saw his incendiary self-published magazine Answer Me! in the early 1990s. ![]() entitled: Trucker Fags in Denial: A Closer Look. Here is a statement written by Jim Blanchard for a forthcoming artist’s book by Daniel D. Archival Collection was very fortunate to acquire the original artwork, preliminaries and related ephemera to Trucker Fags in Denial comic book project. Here is my version of Amputee Love…shot candid in a campground at the Bikers’ Mardi Gras.Īline Kominsky-Crumb (Married to Robert Crumb) Selection from Bikers’ Mardi Gras artist’s book by Daniel D.Teoli Jr. He dropped out of an MFA program at Syracuse University when in 1968 he felt a “call to arms” move to San Francisco, where the nascent underground comix scene was blossoming amid the counterculture there. He experimented with his artwork to find what he called an “inherent and automatic style as a conduit for the chimerical forms in own psyche”. Green was studying painting at the Rhode Island School of Design when in 1967 he discovered the work of Robert Crumb and turned to cartooning, attracted to what he called Crumb’s “harsh drawing stuffed into crookedly-drawn panels”. Through the years underground comix have showcased the work of many creative artists. The post started out as a simple review and blew up from there. This post was inspired by Amazon’s censorship. I had written a book review for Amazon about a Robert Crumb comix compendium, but they refused to publish it. I don’t have time to go back and fix thousands of photos used in hundreds of old posts… but I’m sure you will still get the message. 2) When this blog was changed into a zine theme the photos lost their original format and spacing. ![]() Notes: 1) If an image looks fuzzy click on it to view hi-res version. ![]()
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