December 2021 Nix Comics Update (Year End)

Last year I began the year with this great idea. Well… “great idea” in quotes. I figured that I would do monthly updates on Nix Comics progress. To keep it from being too dry, I would also include on an going list of the records I listened to everyday. Why did this idea seem so great? Well, people have historically liked my year end balance sheet blog posts where I lay out my revenues and expenditures, using them as a springboard to talk about my plans and schemes for next year. And I find the records I listen to inspirational, so why wouldn’t everybody else?

Well, it wasn’t actually such a great idea. it became hard for me to keep up with the posts, which lead to stress. Stress that wasn’t abated by the fact that no one seemed to actually be reading these monthly posts… I should’ve just let it go, but as many of you know, “letting it go” isn’t so much in my nature. When I promise to do something, even if only to myself, I feel obligated to fulfill. So… Two full months into 2022, here’s my report on Nix Comics in December 2021, along with a quick year-end wrap.

NIX COMICS DECEMBER 2021 REVENUE AND EXPENSES:

I finished up strong revenue and expense wise on the year, thanks to Kent Grosswiler buying a chunk of his Finding Beauty In Darkness back-stock and ad revenue from the Mug and Brush Barber Shop for Tales From The Crate #6. The only expense was shipping a Kickstarter reward. That will continue in drips and drabs as I still am working to fulfill a few pledges… everything is made but there have been ongoing communication and scheduling issues with the last few backers. (Again, stressful to have unfulfilled promises!)

NIX COMICS 2021 TOTAL REVENUE AND EXPENSES:

Viewed through a lens of money in and out, this was the best year Nix Comics has had to date. That’s not an accident: I’ve been in a state of semi-employment as I finished up my degree in Public Policy, Leadership and Management at Ohio State and for the first time ever I needed my Comics to actually make money. I mean… I always wanted Nix to make money, but it was never a driving force in my decision making until recently. The bummer of that is that the kind of books I want to get back to, collaborative full color stuff, has been pushed aside because I have no idea how to make money at that. seriously… No issue of Nix Comics Quarterly has ever made money.

I wish that this financial success provided me with some sort of blueprint for continued success going ahead, but the on going changes in the comics industry have left me in a state of… uncertainty. My printing company of choice, Page by Page Copies, has at least temporarily closed doors. I’m fairly certain that I can find a similarly priced alternative, but haven’t committed the time yet. More concerning are my growing qualms with using Kickstarter as my main platform for sales. Between the roadblocks to unionization the company threw up a couple years ago and its recent decision to use blockchain technology for its transactions, I just don’t know if I’m willing to continue that business relationship.

RECORDS I LISTENED TO IN DECEMBER 2021

So I ended up listening to 259 records in December, 8.35 per day average.
The total on the year came out to 1,867 records for all of 2021, or 5.11 per day.

I got more info, but don’t worry. I’m going to keep on keeping track of the records I listen to in my sketchbook for my own nevermind, but I won’t bore y’all with the details in anymore.

12/1/21 Creeps Enjoy The Creeps 12″ LP
12/1/21 Cynics KCSB 6/2/90 12″ LP
12/1/21 Detroit Cobras Original Recordings 12″ LP
12/1/21 Ronnie Dawson Just Rockin’ And A Rollin’ 12″ LP
12/2/21 Conway Twitty You’ve Never Been This Far Before 12″ LP
12/2/21 Inmates Shot in the Dark 12″ LP
12/2/21 Jackie Wilson Baby Work Out! 12″ LP
12/2/21 Joneses Keeping Up With The Joneses 12″ LP
12/2/21 Porter Waggoner Bottom of the Bottle 12″ LP
12/3/21 Booker T & the MGs Hip Hug Her 12″ LP
12/3/21 Jackie & The Cedrics 9 Great Stomps 2×7″ EP
12/3/21 King Khan & BBQ Show Animal Party 7″ Single
12/3/21 Klark Kent Don’t Care 7″ EP
12/3/21 Pandoras Stop Pretending 12″ LP
12/3/21 Pandoras It’s About Time 12″ LP
12/3/21 Tub Johnson & Thee Headcoats Tub’s Twist 7″ Single
12/3/21 Various Artists Estrus Cocktail Companion 3×7″ EP
12/3/21 Various Artists IRS Records Greatest Hits Volumes 1 & 2 2×12″ LP
12/4/21 Dickies Stukas Over Disneyland 12″ EP
12/4/21 Dickies Killer Klowns From Outer Space 12″ EP
12/4/21 Patsy Cline Sentimental 12″ LP
12/5/21 Cramps Flame Job 12″ LP
12/5/21 Wanda Jackson Right or Wrong 12″ LP
12/5/21 Wanda Jackson Let’s have A Party 2×12″ LP
12/6/21 Bangles All Over The Place 12″ LP
12/6/21 Ben Vaughn Combo Many Moods of Ben Vaughn 12″ LP
12/6/21 Church Starfish Extended 2×12″ LP
12/6/21 Dee Dee Sharpe Mashed Potato Time 12″ LP
12/6/21 Eddie & the Hotrods Fish & Chips 12″ LP
12/6/21 Johnny Bond The Man Who Comes Around 12″ LP
12/6/21 Morlocks Self Titled 12″ LP
12/6/21 Porter Waggoner Skid Row Joe 12″ LP
12/6/21 Spinal Tap Hell Hole 12″ Single
12/6/21 Supersuckers Smoke of Hell 12″ LP
12/6/21 Wanda Jackson In Person 12″ LP
12/6/21 X More Fun In The New World 12″ LP
12/7/21 Bo Diddley Bo Diddley’s A Gunslinger 12″ LP
12/7/21 Brood In Spite of It All 12″ LP
12/7/21 Detroit Cobras Love Life and Leaving 12″ LP
12/7/21 Various Artists Garage Punk Unknowns 4×12″ LP
12/8/21 Ian Hunter Self Titled 12″ LP
12/8/21 Los Straitjackets The Further Adventures of Los Straitjackets 12″ LP
12/8/21 Love Da Capo 12″ LP
12/8/21 Roy Loney Fast and Loose 12″ LP
12/9/21 Bill Haley & The Comets Greatest Hits 12″ LP
12/9/21 Gene Moss Dracula’s Greatest Hits 12″ LP
12/9/21 Ian Dury & The Blockheads Laughter 12″ LP
12/9/21 Jet Boys Self Titled 7″ EP
12/9/21 Lazy Cowgirls A Little sex and Death 12″ LP
12/9/21 Lyres Stay Away 7″ Single
12/9/21 Meteors Teenagers from Outer Space 12″ LP
12/9/21 Naz Nomad and the Nightmares I Had too Much To Dream Last Night 7″ Single
12/9/21 Nikki & The Corvettes Yummy Yummy Yummy 7″ Single
12/9/21 Nines Get A Ring 7″ Single
12/9/21 Screamin’ Jay Hawkins Feast of the Mau Mau 2×12″ LP
12/9/21 Screamin’ Jay Hawkins At Home with Screamin’ Jay 12″ LP
12/9/21 Shadowy Men on A Shadowy Planet Music for Pets 7″ EP
12/9/21 Sleepy LaBeef Early, Rare, and Rockin’ Sides 12″ LP
12/9/21 Willie Nelson & Johnny Gimble Split Single 7″ Single
12/10/21 Beat Kids are the Same 12″ LP
12/10/21 David Bowie Changesonebowie 12″ LP
12/10/21 Dwight Twilley Band Sincerely 12″ LP
12/10/21 Iggy Pop Lust for Life 12″ LP
12/10/21 Jimmy Reed Soul City 12″ LP
12/10/21 Pink Slip Daddy Antidisestablishmentarianism 12″ LP
12/10/21 Pogues Red Roses for Me 12″ LP
12/10/21 Problem Hair Self Titled 12″+7″ LP
12/10/21 Radio Birdman Radios Appear 12″ LP
12/11/21 Alex Chilton Feudalist Tarts 12″ EP
12/11/21 Nick Lowe & His Cowboy Outfit Rose of England 12″ LP
12/11/21 Roy Loney & The Phantom Movers Contents under Pressure 12″ LP
12/12/21 Al Perry Ol’ What’s her Name 7″ EP
12/12/21 Chris Isaak Solitary Man 7″ Single
12/12/21 Donnie Iris This Time It Might be Love 7″ Single
12/12/21 Isley Brothers The Cow Jumped Over The Moon 7″ Single
12/12/21 James & Bobby Purify I take what i want 7″ Single
12/12/21 Joe Jackson The Harder They fall 7″ Single
12/12/21 King Bees (2)/Don & Juan Split Single 7″ Single
12/12/21 Kinks Mr. Pleasant 7″ Single
12/12/21 Knack Good Girls Don’t 7″ Single
12/12/21 Mable John Your Good Thing 7″ Single
12/12/21 Mickey Murray Lonely Room 7″ Single
12/12/21 Music Explosion Little Bit of Soul 7″ Single
12/12/21 Nathaniel mayer Ride in My 225 7″ Single
12/12/21 Nervous Eaters Loretta 7″ Single
12/12/21 Olympics Big Boy Pete 7″ Single
12/12/21 Paley Brothers You’re The Best 7″ Single
12/12/21 Payola$ Introducing the Payola$ 7″ EP
12/12/21 Pinkz Something About You 7″ Single
12/12/21 Priscillas Superhero 7″ Single
12/12/21 Purple Merkins Purple Merkin Power 7″ Single
12/12/21 Wanda Jackson Funnel of Love 7″ Single
12/12/21 Wanda Jackson Windy City Redux 7″ Single
12/13/21 Devo New Traditionalists 12″ LP
12/13/21 J. Geils Band Morning After 12″ LP
12/13/21 Monkees 20 Greatest Rock N Roll Hits 12″ LP
12/13/21 Sir Bald Diddley & his Wig Outs Tuck In 7″ EP
12/13/21 Sit ‘n Spin Santa Claws 7″ Single
12/13/21 Slow Poisoner Green Chair 7″ Single
12/13/21 Slow Poisoner Midnite Earwig Buffet 7″ Single
12/13/21 Sons of Hercules Spittin’ Fire 7″ Single
12/13/21 Sorrows Teenage Heartbreak 7″ Single
12/13/21 Standells Dirty Water 7″ Single
12/14/21 Amy Rigby Diary of a Mod Housewife 12″ LP
12/14/21 Big Sandy & the Fly rite Trio Fly Right 12″ LP
12/14/21 Hawkshaw Hawkins Sings 12″ LP
12/14/21 Mitch Ryder What Now My Love? 12″ LP
12/14/21 Patti Smith Group So You wanna Be A Rock N Roll Star 7″ EP
12/14/21 Rachel Sweet I go to Pieces 7″ Single
12/14/21 Rachel Sweet Be My Baby/Then he Kissed Me 7″ Single
12/14/21 Runaways Little Girls Lost 12″ LP
12/14/21 Ruts Live and Loud 12″ LP
12/14/21 Sam & Dave Double Dynamite 12″ LP
12/14/21 Standells Try It 7″ Single
12/14/21 Strawberry Alarm Clock Incense and Peppermints 7″ Single
12/14/21 Swindlers You’re Drivin’ me wild 7″ Single
12/14/21 Swinging Blue Jeans Hippy Hippy Shake 7″ Single
12/14/21 Union Carbide Down on the farm 7″ Single
12/15/21 Chesterfield Kings Berlin Wall of Sound 12″ LP
12/15/21 Cramps Psychedelic Jungle 12″ LP
12/15/21 Cramps Eyeball In my Martini 12″ EP
12/15/21 Cramps What’s Inside A Girl 12″ EP
12/15/21 Cramps All Women Are Bad 12″ EP
12/15/21 Go Gos Beauty & The Beat 12″ LP
12/15/21 Insomniacs Get something going 12″ LP
12/15/21 mad Maynard Horlick Go Go Rip Van Winkle 7″ Single
12/15/21 Stiv Bators Disconnected 12″ LP
12/16/21 Aretha Franklin Lady Soul 12″ LP
12/16/21 Bangles Everything 12″ LP
12/16/21 Bantam Rooster Cross and the Switchblade 12″ LP
12/16/21 Chris Isaak Self Titled 12″ LP
12/16/21 Freddy & The Four Gone Conclusions Wigged Out Sounds 12″ LP
12/16/21 Fugs Greatest Hits Volume 1 12″ LP
12/16/21 Heartbreakers LAMF 12″ LP
12/16/21 Screamin’ Jay Hawkins Screamin’ The Blues 12″ LP
12/16/21 Terry Gibson Downliner 12″ LP
12/17/21 Cynics Rock ‘N’ Roll 12″ LP
12/17/21 Dave Edmunds Repeat When Necessary 12″ LP
12/17/21 Dick Curless The Last Blues Song 12″ LP
12/17/21 English Beat Special Beat Service 12″ LP
12/17/21 Hasil Adkins Moon over Madison 12″ LP
12/17/21 J. Michael & the Bushmen I Need Love 7″ Single
12/17/21 Metros Hot Wired 7″ Single
12/17/21 Sammy Masters Twin Pipes & Pin stripes 12″ LP
12/17/21 Steve Martin King Tut 7″ EP
12/17/21 Various Artists Anything Goes When You’re Girl Crazy 12″ LP
12/18/21 Vyvyan Teenage Wannabes 10″ EP
12/20/21 Damned Best of 12″ LP
12/20/21 Donnie Iris Fortune 410 12″ LP
12/20/21 Fabulous Poodles Mirror Stars 12″ LP
12/20/21 Fats Domino Trouble In Mind 12″ LP
12/20/21 Full Time Men My Fist Your Face 12″ LP
12/20/21 Javier Escovedo Kicked Out of Eden 12″ LP
12/20/21 Mac Curtis Grand Daddy’s Rockin’ 12″ LP
12/20/21 Payola$ Hammer on Drum 12″ LP
12/20/21 Robin Lane & the Chartbusters Imitation of Life 12″ LP
12/20/21 Scandal Self Titled 12″ EP
12/20/21 Various Artists When the Boys Meet The Girls SOundtrack 12″ LP
12/21/21 Bobby Bland Call on Me 12″ LP
12/21/21 Chuck Berry The Golden Decade Volume 3 2×12″ LP
12/21/21 Chuck Berry On Stage 12″ LP
12/21/21 Devil Dogs No Requests Tonight 12″ LP
12/21/21 Dolly Parton 9 to 5 7″ Single
12/21/21 Graham Parker I Want You Back (Alive) 7″ Single
12/21/21 Little Milton Grits Ain’t Groceries 7″ Single
12/21/21 Onyas Drink ’em Up Motherfuckers 7″ EP
12/21/21 Ramones I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend 7″ Single
12/21/21 Randy Bachelors Bad Advice 7″ Single
12/21/21 Rivieras Best of the Rivieras 12″ LP
12/21/21 Rivingtons Mama Mama Oo Maw Maw 7″ Single
12/22/21 April March Paris in April 12″ LP
12/22/21 Big Jay McNeely Live & rare 12″ LP
12/23/21 Accel 4 Don’t Stop Is The Keyword 7″ Single
12/23/21 Alarm Clocks Ramona 7″ Single
12/23/21 American Soul Spiders Anyway Any Girl 7″ Single
12/23/21 American Soul Spiders/Supersnazz Split Single 7″ Single
12/23/21 Ann Margret I Just Don’t Understand 7″ Single
12/23/21 Blues Magoos (We Ain’t Got Nothing yet) 7″ Single
12/23/21 Booker T. & the MGs Hang ’em High 7″ Single
12/23/21 Brains Money Changes Everything 7″ Single
12/23/21 Buggles Video Killed The Radio Star 7″ Single
12/23/21 Carthays Betty Jo 7″ Single
12/23/21 Gories The Shaw Tapes 12″ LP
12/23/21 Hank McCoy & the Dead Ringers Self Titled 12″ LP
12/23/21 Jimmy Bowen I’m Sticking With You 7″ Single
12/23/21 Joe King Carrasco Don’t Let A Woman Make A Fool Of You 7″ Single
12/23/21 Joe King Carrasco Walk It Like You Talk It 7″ Single
12/23/21 Ray Campi Play It cool 7″ Single
12/24/21 45s Couldn’t Believe a Word 7″ Single
12/24/21 5678s I walk Like Jayne Mansfield 7″ Single
12/24/21 A-Bones Questions I Can’t answer 7″ Single
12/24/21 Go to Blazes Self Titled 12″ LP
12/24/21 Ramones Road to Ruin 12″ LP
12/25/21 1910 Fruitgum Company No good Annie 7″ Single
12/25/21 1910 Fruitgum Company Indian Giver 7″ Single
12/25/21 440s Feel Alright 7″ EP
12/25/21 Arthur Conley Whole Lotta Woman 7″ Single
12/25/21 Count Backwards Double decker Bus 7″ Single
12/25/21 Elvis Viva Las Vegas 7″ Single
12/25/21 Elvis Burning Love 7″ Single
12/25/21 Esquerita Dew Drop Inn 7″ Single
12/25/21 Estrella 20/20 Self Titled 7″ EP
12/25/21 Flakes Wanna Meet The Flakes? 7″ Single
12/25/21 Fleshtones Girl From Baltimore 7″ Single
12/25/21 Various Artists Nuggets 2×12″ LP
12/26/21 Gore Gore Girls Get The Gore 12″ LP
12/26/21 Marvelettes Greatest Hits 12″ LP
12/26/21 Marvin Rainwater Sings Country Gold 12″ LP
12/26/21 Ramones Pleasant Dreams 12″ LP
12/26/21 Rosco Gordon Legendary Sun Performers 12″ LP
12/27/21 Muddy Waters Folk Singer 12″ LP
12/27/21 Pretenders Learning to Crawl 12″ LP
12/27/21 Public Nuisance Gotta Survive 12″ LP
12/28/21 Any Trouble Second Choice 7″ Single
12/28/21 Apemen (1) Percolator Stomp 7″ Single
12/28/21 Apemen (2) I Got Soul 7″ Single
12/28/21 Apemen (3) Lucky In Love 7″ Single
12/28/21 Hank Ballard & The Midniters Annie Had A Baby 7″ Single
12/29/21 Archie & the Bunkers/PowerSolo Split Single 7″ Single
12/29/21 Bobby Marchan Bump your Booty 7″ Single
12/29/21 Bobby Marchan Something On Your Mind 7″ Single
12/29/21 Heartdrops Truth Comes Around 7″ Single
12/29/21 Insomniacs Already Down 7″ Single
12/29/21 Johnny Thunders & the Chesterfield Kings Critic’s Choice 7″ EP
12/29/21 Lonnie Mack Where There’s A Will 7″ Single
12/29/21 Louie Lymon & The Teenchords Never Let You Go 7″ Single
12/29/21 Madame X Funnel of Love 7″ EP
12/29/21 Madness Un Paso Adelante 7″ Single
12/29/21 Max Wall England’s Glory 7″ Single
12/29/21 Neil Sedaka Breaking Up Is Hard To Do 7″ Single
12/29/21 Nick Lowe Burning 7″ Single
12/29/21 Nick Lowe My Heart Hurts 2×7″ Single
12/29/21 Rose Maddox Faded Love 7″ Single
12/29/21 Royaltones Wail 7″ Single
12/29/21 Scandal Goodbye To you 7″ Single
12/29/21 Subsonics Voodoo Doll 7″ Single
12/29/21 Various Artists Sun Box Set 3×12″ LP
12/29/21 Vibrators Judy Says Knock You In The Head 7″ Single
12/29/21 Watts 103rd Street Orchestra Bottomless 7″ Single
12/29/21 Who I can See For Miles 7″ Single
12/30/21 BR5-49 Little Ramona’s Gone Hillbilly Nuts 7″ Single
12/30/21 Butterflys The Swim 7″ Single
12/30/21 Byrds Feel A Whole Lot Better 7″ Single
12/30/21 Cadets Stranded In the Jungle 7″ Single
12/30/21 Dovells Can’t sit Down 12″ LP
12/30/21 Gentrys Keep on Dancing 12″ LP
12/30/21 Lazy Cowgirls Ragged Soul 12″ LP
12/30/21 Phil Seymour Surrender 7″ Single
12/30/21 Ramones Carbona Not Glue 7″ Single
12/30/21 Robert Gordon with Link Wray Fresh Fish Special 12″ LP
12/31/21 Blondie Call Me 7″ Single
12/31/21 Carbonas Lost Cause and Nineteen Live At Ron’s House 7″ Single
12/31/21 Count Bishops Train Train 7″ Single
12/31/21 Elvis Costello Radio Radio 7″ Single
12/31/21 Ernie Graham Romeo 7″ Single
12/31/21 I’m With Stupid Swank-O-Pation 7″ Single
12/31/21 Tough And Lovely Tough and Lovely 7″ Single
12/31/21 Wreckless Eric Joe Meek 7″ Single
12/31/21 Yachts Now That I’m Spoken For 7″ Single