THRU BLACK HOLES CATALOG [Number 1]

THRU BLACK HOLES COMIX CATALOG [Number 1]

8-page mini-comix
Published by Thru Black Holes Comix
Published July 1984 (First Printing)
Contents copyright © 1984 by Michael Roden
First Printing: 100 copies
Second Printing: 50 copies
Free

This first mini-comix format THRU BLACK HOLES CATALOG consists primarily of hand-lettered lists of the then-available TBH titles plus panels reprinted from various books. At least two variants of this publication exist: one printed on orchid paper (First Printing) and the other (Second Printing) on a strange greenish-colored paper. Of particular interest are:

cover untitled drawing

Very cool collaboration with BOB X depicting a Crazy Man humanoid reading an alien Plain Loon comix (reprinted with some serious modifications from CRAZY MEN No. 3, page 7). Very cool, indeed.

page 8 untitled collage-drawing

This is another ingenious collage-drawing wherein two figures from historically disparate sources are combined into one unique and interesting amalgam. The ability to utilize (and rework) raw materials from a variety of sources is just one mark of the creative genius of MICHAEL RODEN.

Resource Notes:
Thanks to MICHAEL RODEN for providing copies of both printings of this cool catalog.
Publication information per MICHAEL RODEN: letter to DLC dated 7/12/84.
Additional information per MICHAEL RODEN: letter to DLC postmarked AUG 4 1986.

History:
This page originally published in THE DALE LEE PLANET MICHAEL RODEN CATALOG: VOLUME 1. MINI-COMIX Version 1.0 (page 31) on 3-31-01.
Page revised and posted to the online MICHAEL RODEN CATALOG 11-5-03.