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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 03:53:41 +0000
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On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 2:52:29 +0000, 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.
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> Thanks for sharing more of Zod's art

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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