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ANTIQUE CHILDREN (2009 - 2010) Three previously unpublished one page comics by Rick titled "Hive Baby" (Parts 'One' and 'Two') (1995 and 2010, respectively) and "The New Ones" (1997, 2009) are now available via Jim Lopez & Ty Gorton's 'Literary Art Journal' ANTIQUE CHILDREN, in the "Comics & Illustrations" section via ART (posted November 2009 - May 2010): http://www.antiquechildren.com/. For Rick's comments regarding all related stories, please see PUBLISHED WORKS - 4 section.
LA BOUCHE #3 (OCTOBER 2009) An old/new ('87/'09) poem by Rick titled "Blood of the Corn Kings" was published in Issue #3 (October 2009) of online 'news and culture' magazine LA BOUCHE. For a free read of the poem, please visit the magazine's official website here: http://www.labouchemag.com/issue-three.php?art=93. Issue #3 also includes the following (among other articles / features): Fiction works (short story, poems, etc.) by Sam Taradash, Roshanak Pashaee, Tymon Dogg (see my other fan site (RH): www.tymondogg.net), and Captain of the Rant; Interviews: MI5 Whistle Blower and self-proclaimed 'Messiah' David Shayler; world-renowned journalist, author and documentary filmmaker John Pilgerand; musicians Elena Poulou and Susanne Oberbeck of the The Fall and No Bra, respectively; and artists Suzanne Treister, and Aaron Baarshack. La Bouche #3 was voted 'Zine of the Month' in November 2009 by The Institute of Contemporary Arts: http://www.ica.org.uk/Zine%20of%20the%20Month%20+23155.twl. |
ONLINE BLOGS (SELF-PUBLISHED)
FAN SITE Q&A - DECEMBER 2008RICKGRIMESFANSITE.NET: Have you contributed any other work to comics, magazines or books since the mid '90s? And, Do you still draw/write comics, or is this something you since given up to concentrate on other work in your life? RICK GRIMES: A) "No. Unless Larry Loc put something up on the computer that came and went sometime in there, RARE BIT FIENDS, then to the HPL (THE STARRY WISDOM) book is it. A couple of 'almosts' completed around that time of my pages in Rick Veitch's dream comic were a comic I mailed out a few times called "Poodles From Uranus"; simpler (at least at first) four-panel pages that would've sunk any chances it had, already, but on top of that it has, (or had if I one day decide to self-censor and alter it), a 'naughty' panel near the climax, let us say. So, that went no place. And when Steve Bissette told me once how little you can actually make on a first comic book of your own, pretty much took the wind out of it for me. Figured I might as well try anthologies some more. At least they might pay off. But, haven't pursued that yet either. My aunt died in '97, my grandmother in '99. Then there was my mother for years. So, I've been on somewhat of an artistic detour where it's, for the most part, less demanding to pursue smaller things. There are comic pages, too, but they're predominantly stories that aren't quite complete, so no one has seen them. The other 'almost ran' was a story for Mark Arsenault who had intended, about ten years ago by now, to run it in his small press title HOT TUNA, and pay contributors only on publication. Maybe that's why it didn't happen. I did a five page story called "The Usual" about a very hapless baby and his already dead, 'Chester Gouldian' parents. All he gave us was a premise to work from in the little prospectus sheet: something about 'domestic' situation. Don't think it was quite what he'd expected, I largely doubt it had anything to do with it not coming out. He didn't refuse it. The one time we talked on the phone we also hypothesized about his doing an all "Puzz Fundles" book as I was already working on it, back then. (See: GOOZLE KOMMIX). That still being incomplete, and, again, out of touch I'd been thinking of contacting him, too, just as a courtesy, to get an okay on publishing "The Usual" and shopping GOOZLE, when completed, elsewhere. I figured the 'statute of levitations' had about run out on the two stories; the "Pills for Miss Betsy" story and "The Usual" would've looked good in a book together, but I won't be doing that now. Last I saw his name, Mark was editing Fantagraphics' catalog but that was years ago. Hadn't tried his old address yet. Still don't have a computer." --- B) "I still draw and write comics. Also draw single image, one time things not really illos ('cause they're not illustrating anything but themselves). Write a lot of limited, experimental writing oddities I have no intention of illustrating. One's going, then I think of another way of doing it and I get stuck in yet another 'detour' project. Coupla of them I actually managed to hold myself to and virtually finish. I had already been cooking along, on and off, on some of those when I had to begin taking care of my mother. Every day from August of '02 to her death in February of this year, '08. Life as art. I thought I had reduced my artwork to a pretty thin mix, trying out minimalist things and so forth but in those years I got even less art done. A couple of new 'illos', inks on some old ones and a couple of Weird Dick pages. But, the writing things I could readily keep up with, or inch along a few more steps while lying down, between other tasks. "Puzz Fundles"; to keep your sanity, too. I wouldn't stop doing something artistic. I don't know how to do anything else. Tho' never as productive as I should be, I couldn't stop doing it if the wallpaper peeled off the universe. This year, I've been trying to get back to some things, digging out very old stuff and ink it maybe modify it. Warm up to it all again. I guess I approach things more like painters. I can leave pieces tucked away for years and go back to them or spend decades developing one series of ideas." |
RGFS.NET: I was wondering what ever happened to the rumoured collection of your work, GOOZLE KOMMIX, that Steve Bissette and Rick Veitch prepared for Tundra Publishing in 1991-2? Both Steve Bissette and Rick Veitch have expressed regret at never seeing this collection of your work released.
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