No Sex #17

By the time this issue came along I was out of the army and living in Los Angeles, my home. I had considered quitting the project by now, but my friends like Jerry Foley, George Lane, Willie Peppers, Klaus Haisch, Gary Barker and Robert Barger insisted I keep it up. I must mention another who supported me from N3F who never got a piece of work in No Sex but helped me a lot in the trying 80's and that is Catherine Mintz.  This was a shorter 24 page issue published for me by Jerry Foley under the Night Shadow Comics logo. The small size reflected my financial instability after getting out of the army and the fact that I was now supporting a wife and daughter and things were tighter in the homestead. The issue as distributed in the summer of 1989. I felt this was a very tight issue in spite of everything, and that was mostly thanks to the help of Jerry. The color of the cover distracts from the TofC but otherwise the thing looks good. The typing issues settle down because I was using my computer printer to do the text and though it was dot-matrix it was way better that the typewriters i was using in the past. I was actually starting to lose touch with my artist friends as I became a more responsible father and husband.

Contents: Front cover is by Earl Geier and the rear cover is by Mike Martin, inked by me. I probably should note that the Martin piece was supposed to be the cover for NS17 and contains the logo, but Earl came up at the last minute and I have a soft spot for his art.

The featured story is my strip Microbe, I feature an interview with artist Joseph Shea (I wish I had done more of this kind of stuff), Rescue by Allen Barnella which is illustrated by Jerry Collins and the short story Radac and Me by Joseph Shea.

Earl Geier, Mike Martin, David Heath, Martin King, Chris Ecker, Gary Barker, Jerry Foley, Joseph Shea, Jerry Collins, Gary Phillips, George Lane.

Notes:

Looking at this issue just reminds how things became a trade-off between survival in the mundane world and my hobbies. Usually the hobbies lost. It was about this time that I sold my extensive IF/Galaxy magazine collection and later the Ace double novel collection. I had to take some hard-line stances about these frivolities that I feel sad about now, but one of the reasons I did this site is to revel in those days and pay tribute to those that were there with me. I will say that computers have come to the fore as a main interest for me and has tended to ease the pain of missing  the old days. Especially when someone from the past comes in from the blue and contacts me to say "hi" and chat about those days.

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