Found this cool unpublished Dave Sim ROAD BIT in one of my old sketchbooks. From the title, he seems to be hedging on whether its a real dream or not. This would have been done right in the middle of the SPIRITS OF INDEPENDENCE tour. I’m wondering why we didn’t try the free beer idea!

Ed Polgardy was my editor at Tekno Comics. This ROAD BIT dream comic is from 1994, when I was working on TEKNOPHAGE. Marker in sketchbook.

Before I launched ROARIN’ RICK’S RARE BIT FIENDS as a regular monthly book, there were three 24 HOUR COMIC collections of my dream art. I did these early comics in a small sketchbook; giving myself fifteen minutes a day to record my dreams in panel form, then printed short runs of them on a copier to give away as Christmas gifts to my friends and fellow travelers. Here’s the cover to the first 24 HOUR RARE BIT FIENDS, based on a dream, of course. Pen and ink with zipatone. 1991.

Another haunted dream. Marker in sketchbook, 2005.

Marker in sketchbook, 2004.

You can order signed copies of my three dream comics collections, RABID EYE, POCKET UNIVERSE and CRYPTO ZOO at the King Hell Store.

I had this dream in 1994; a couple days after CBG editor Don Thompson passed away.

The second installment of my Self Publishing memories is up at Jeff Smith’s Boneville. There are lots and lots of ROAD BITS by myself, Dave Sim, James Owen, Larry Marder and other likely suspects over there too.

I’m blathering about self publishing over at Jeff Smith’s Boneville.