Re: Early Usenet appearance of Will Dockery from 1995

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Zod wrote:
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On Friday, May 27, 2022 at 3:35:34 PM UTC-4, Zod wrote:
On Saturday, May 21, 2022 at 6:35:14 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
Zod wrote:
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Will Dockery wrote:
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An early Usenet appearance of Will Dockery, from May 12 1995:
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https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.comics.marketplace/TbaNE0W5xPU/oNIVxNMLFasJ
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On Friday, May 12, 1995 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, ROLLER 666 wrote:
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Andrew Roller Presents
C O M I C U P D A T E
FREE! Internet Edition May 11, 1995
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R E V I E W S
conducted by h0ly joe
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snipped for focus
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Early Usenet appearance of Will Dockery:
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https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.comics.marketplace/TbaNE0W5xPU/oNIVxNMLFasJ
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Dockery provides insight to the life and recent death of Freddy Mercury
as a part of his regular "Like a Monkey on My Back" column in Update.
Whether you knew or cared about this singer, Dockery's writing
(particularly in this installment of his column) struck me as absolutely
fascinating.
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But then, I'm just a newcomer. For a
cup of coffee I'll review anything, even a comic by William Dockery.
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Green Ringlets, 50c. Minicomic, eight pages. William Dockery, P.O. Box
xxxx, Phenix City, AL 36868.
A chapbook, from whence the first poem provides the title. Each book
apparently comes with a free coffee stain. (Mine did, anyway.)
Care for some disjointed images, rendered with varying degrees of
proficiency, complete with a bizarre, Egyptian pharaoh cover? This is
the
book for you. There's a poem about the south and several about females.
I could write this thing up really good, but I'm full. I had to feed the
hamburger Dockery threw over the bridge to me to a cat. It was lukewarm,
anyway. If I'm to work for food, Dockery, it has to be hot. Anyway, the
onion rings were good. For those I'll quoth several of his better lines:
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"Answers like seeds being dispersed into
"the breeze...
"...We stood in the marsh of reeds...
"...The Science Ladies
"wandering inside my soul (pg. 5)."
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There ya go. Thank God Wilson quit publishing.
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felt, 50c postpaid. Minicomic, eight pages. William Dockery, P.O. Box
xxxx, Phenix City, AL 36868.
On the back cover of this tome is written the words, "Second Printing."
I was going to joke that with Dockery, this means my copy is not only
the
second printing but the second copy. However, this damn thing is
actually
very well written. Maybe he did actually print more than one copy in the
first printing, and sold out!
felt begins poorly, but picks up at the top of page four. Then things
really get going at the bottom of page four, and the lines roll on
through
thunderous poetic crescendoes right to the end. There are amazing images
here; Tatumville park, the memory of Tracy, the father who's "a grey
cat,"
even a lake of disappearing paths.
I highly recommend this chapbook on two counts, as a stunning book of
poems and as a sample of the best the comics small press has to offer.
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Also included were "scandal sheet" style news items on local real life
celebrities in the Columbus-Phenix City music/art/poetry scene of the
1990s, very similar to the impostor trolls seen at present:
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C O M I C U P D A T E N E W S
presented by holy joe
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WILSON THE BUM
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There are three types of homeless people in this world. There is the
Hobo, which is a migratory worker. Then there is the Tramp, which is a
migratory non-worker. Finally, there is the Bum, which is a
non-migratory
non-worker. This I learned recently from my researches at the Phenix
City
library. Learning this, I decided to investigate certain personalities
of
the small press, to see which category they fit into (and to justify
peeking into Carol Horny's window!)
Rick Howe - a Hobo. Migrating from South Carolina to Columbus, with
plans to move on to Sacramento, but working at McDonald's.
John Jones - a Tramp. Migrating from Philly to a trailer park in Phenix
City, never gainfully employed (except by the government), and always
one
step ahead of the law due to his "art" photos.
p.d. Wilson - a Bum. Never going anyplace, and never working either. (I
think he accidentally wired himself to his junkyard computer and can't
get
loose, but that's no excuse.)
Carol Horn - Welfare Queen, and purveyor of living room performance art
P*rno shows, which she doesn't know has a nationwide audience, thanks to
my VHS Handicam.
A. Holer - I was going to list this AOL a-hole as a Bum, but recently he
threw away all his Penthouses and became gainfully employed! (As the
Regional Coordinator of the Boy Love Society.)
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NOTE: The premier issue of Comic Update is posted on
alt.comics.alternative. It is the issue for May 10th. It consists of
three parts: COMIC UPDATE (Part One), COMIC UPDATE (PART TWO), and COMIC
UPDATE (PART THREE OF THREE).
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ROLLER PUBLICATIONS Founded 1972. Continuously publishing since 1986.
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END OF TRANSMISSION
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Interestingly, I didn't post to Usenet, or to the internet at all, until
June of 1998.
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Songs & poetry of Will Dockery:
http://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery
Long time ago....
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Yes, and here's a photograph from that era, circa 1997:
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CdzpTcRMgWF/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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HTH and HAND.
GROOVY.....!!
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Yes:
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CdzpTcRMgWF/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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Humphrey Bogart, Christy Young, and Will Dockery at Toad's Book Store on
Broadway. Columbus, Georgia. Late 1990's (Photograph by Walter Mallard)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CdzpTcRMgWF/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=
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Astounding historical image...

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Good afternoon Zod, agreed.

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What image is he speaking ot?

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Here's another art piece by Zod.

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Thanks for sharing more of Zod's art

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Now I'm checking on the best way to share the art outside of JLA Forums,
something Retro Guy mentioned, other readers of the newsgroups at
different portals won't be able to see the images:
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http://www.jlaforums.com/attach_pic.php?post_id=684579390&attach_id=254294461
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I'm pretty sure this link will work and I'm testing it now.

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