A quick rundown: "Clem" and "Clutch Angel" are the best. "Frickles" is peculiar enough and established my approach from there on, but I didn’t quite nail the way the little babbling man really looked. Only memory to go on -- he was quite real, as the letter, printed in #8, laid out -- but he was sitting next to me, not in the view presented in the dream. "The Caramel", is my least favourite. I don’t care for self-referential, in the literal sense, comics and hate including myself in anything, in stories. Normally I would’ve rejected it, but I liked the giant statue and costume-dive ideas, and thought overall it might ‘mean’ something to (Rick) Veitch. It was about him. (For those not paying attention! I’m sometimes amazed what obviousness people can ignore when reading a comic sequence.) And his book, with him in it all the time. Thought he could use an ‘equalizer’, by then, as only dreams can do it. (As much for my mind as his, no doubt; my dream). The name ‘the Caramel’ is about the dumbest and blandest name for a ‘superhero’ you can get, but such are dreams. That alone would’ve been enough for me to avoid doing it. I gave Veitch the originals, to do with as he sees fit; since he’s in it. ‘At his discretion’. Anyone, interested in self portraits can check me, and (Steve) Bissette, in that story. I hate being ‘seen’ in shorts, but it gets in the 90s and 100s down here, so...

The other stories’ pages please me a great deal more. If anyone would like to ask, specifically, about them I’d be glad to say more.

There are at least two others I’d like to do, someday, if Rick ever returns to further, new issues of the book. I enjoyed doing them alot, ‘though it takes a certain focus. Tried to keep the artwork on them tight. And clear, albeit detailed. The format suits me.

All of them really are dreams. Some of the characters were contrived. It’s either that or do point-of-view all the time, which tends to be tedious and can be confusing to readers.

The letters Rick printed in #8 mentioned earlier, was sent to him, as the Frickles pages’ strange background; I had no notion he would print it. Consequently, a few of the words are wrong or I seem garbled; at the end, I was trailing up the side of the letter, not expecting a typesetter would have to read it., I have no artwork in #8. Just the letter.

Also, in #21, there is a minor piece called, "Penny Boo", slipped in with the letters page. The character is reciting a minor dream that wasn’t worth illustrating in itself; he was drawn from a circular spot in the grain of my drawing board that looks like him.