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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Early Usenet appearance of Will Dockery from 1995
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2024 15:23:56 +0000
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Zod wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:
>
>> 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:
>>> >
>>> > > Will Dockery wrote:
>>> > >>
>>> > >> An early Usenet appearance of Will Dockery, from May 12 1995:
>>> > >>
>>> > >>
>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.comics.marketplace/TbaNE0W5xPU/oNIVxNMLFasJ
>>> > >>
>>> > >> On Friday, May 12, 1995 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, ROLLER 666 wrote:
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> > Andrew Roller Presents
>>> > >> > C O M I C U P D A T E
>>> > >> > FREE! Internet Edition May 11, 1995
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> > R E V I E W S
>>> > >> > conducted by h0ly joe
>>> > >>
>>> > >> <snipped for focus>
>>> > >>
>>> > >> Early Usenet appearance of Will Dockery:
>>> > >>
>>> > >>
>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.comics.marketplace/TbaNE0W5xPU/oNIVxNMLFasJ
>>> > >>
>>> > >> > 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.
>>> > >>
>>> > >> [...]
>>> > >>
>>> > >> > But then, I'm just a newcomer. For a
>>> > >> > cup of coffee I'll review anything, even a comic by William
>>> Dockery.
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> > 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:
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> > "Answers like seeds being dispersed into
>>> > >> > "the breeze...
>>> > >> > "...We stood in the marsh of reeds...
>>> > >> > "...The Science Ladies
>>> > >> > "wandering inside my soul (pg. 5)."
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> > There ya go. Thank God Wilson quit publishing.
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> > 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.
>>> > >>
>>> > >> [...]
>>> > >>
>>> > >> 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:
>>> > >>
>>> > >> > C O M I C U P D A T E N E W S
>>> > >> > presented by holy joe
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> > WILSON THE BUM
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> > 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.)
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> > 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).
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> > ROLLER PUBLICATIONS Founded 1972. Continuously publishing since
>>> 1986.
>>> > >> >
>>> > >> > END OF TRANSMISSION
>>> > >>
>>> > >> Interestingly, I didn't post to Usenet, or to the internet at all,
>>> until June of 1998.
>>> > >>
>>> > >> --
>>> > >> Songs & poetry of Will Dockery:
>>> > >> http://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery
>>> > > Long time ago....
>>> >
>>> > Yes, and here's a photograph from that era, circa 1997:
>>> >
>>> > https://www.instagram.com/p/CdzpTcRMgWF/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
>>> >
>>> > HTH and HAND.
>>> GROOVY.....!!
>
>> Yes:
>
>> https://www.instagram.com/p/CdzpTcRMgWF/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
>
>> Humphrey Bogart, Christy Young, and Will Dockery at Toad's Book Store on
>> Broadway. Columbus, Georgia. Late 1990's (Photograph by Walter Mallard)
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