Re: Early Usenet appearance of Will Dockery from 1995

Will Dockery 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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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

porno 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...