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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: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 05:20:20 +0000
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On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 4:28:54 +0000, MummyChunk wrote:

>> W.Dockery wrote:
>> MummyChunk wrote:
>>
>>> Will-Dockery wrote:
>>>
>>> MummyChunk wrote:
>>>
>>> Will-Dockery wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>>> 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.)
>>>
>>> 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)
>>> https://www.instagram.com/p/CdzpTcRMgWF/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Astounding historical image...
>>>
>>>
>>> Good afternoon Zod, agreed.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> What image is he speaking ot?
>>>
>>>
>>> Here's another art piece by Zod.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for sharing more of Zod's art
>>>
>>> Now I'm checking on the best way to share the art outside of JLA Forums,
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