(Continued from COLEY, Wild In The Street, Pt. 2)
The 2nd self-published Coley book by John Blackburn was a collection of short stories that apparently all took place sometime after his 6 weeks on Voodoo Island.
Jessica returns from the previous episode, and this one involves an incident that winds up leading directly into Blackburn's lengthy graphic novel, "BREATHLESS". It continues to baffle me to this day that Fantagraphics / Eros never published the first 3 Coley books. I was so lucky to be able to get copies directly from Blackburn himself!
As I stressed with the 1st
book, I don't own this work, and I'm cleaning up and coloring these
stories purely FOR FUN. But if circumstances present themselves where I
am able to re-publish this work at some time, the FIRST thing I'd do
would be to contact Blackburn's estate, find whoever it is that
owns the Copyrights, and strike a deal to SPLIT any potential profits
from such an undertaking.
In the meantime... ENJOY!
COLEY, WILD IN THE STREET
cover by JOHN BLACKBURN (John Blackburn / 1989)
Story & Art by JOHN BLACKBURN
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Story & Art by JOHN BLACKBURN
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The above story ends rather abruptly! But don't worry. It does lead (more or less) directly into the BIG soap-opera graphic novel, "BREATHLESS". When will I get to that? NO idea! But, I guess we'll see.
This pin-up here looks much sharper than the above story, suggesting to me it was done sometime later. (Or, maybe, earlier. Can't really say!)
Page 40 / pin-up
John apparently cut up the original art when the books were printed and included a panel in the back of each copy. Here's the one included in mine.
Page 41 / original art ("ROLLER BOOGIE HOTROD")
New COLOR Copyright (C) 2022 HENRY R. KUJAWA.
Scans from MY collection!
Restorations by Henry R. Kujawa.
For more:
Read about John Blackburn at the Prism Comics site.
Read about "Coley Running Wild" at the Graphic Novels Info site.
See my detailed indexes of these books at the GCD site.
See my COLEY overview at this very blog!
Read GreyIrish' review of "Dagger Of Blood" at the
Deep Cuts In A Lovecraftian Vein blog.
Read COLEY ON VOODOO ISLAND in COLOR!
Read COLEY: WILD IN THE STREET in COLOR!
(Continued in COLEY: Breathless, Pt. 1)
