This month was all about comics shows.

Mid month, I went to STAPLE in Austin as a fan. What a terrific show! I definitely recommend that artists and publishers take a step back from tabling and visit some shows as a fan rather than as a vendor. For me its sometimes difficult to capture that feeling of excitement I had as a fan whose only stake was finding something to enjoy. Its a perspective that’s important not to lose. (He said as he went on to talk about tabling…)

The 25th Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo (SPACE) was the last weekend of April. As I’ve said many times in the past… This is my favorite “comics show.” You get the full spectrum of artists and art: From award winning and experienced pros to true beginners sharing their work for the very first time. SPACE is run by Bob Corby, who has worked hard to keep the show affordable and accessible to everyone involved. for vendors, cheaper tables than other shows of similar size and free admission for fans. It’s the community we deserve as artists.

I worry about SPACE, though. It feels like reaching the folks who would enjoy the show is getting more and more difficult. There were plenty of open tables, despite them being cheaper and having no barriers like juried entry. The foot traffic seemed light in comparison to past years. That said, I did OK sales-wise, about the same as last year and enough to break even on Nix Comics expenses for the year-to-date. I just can’t help but wonder why in a town where people get absolutely rabid about losing institutions like WWCD and Rag-O-Rama, a truly local and independent event like SPACE is treated like a red headed step child. (For those of you not from Columbus, I guess you can look up WWCD and Rag-o-Rama. Suffice to say people got really bent out of shape about a radio station crashing and burning and a semi-national vintage clothing chain pulling out of town suddenly. I got my opinions on all that, which are best shared in one-on-one conversations.)

Anyways, SPACE will likely be my last comics show this year. Yep… No CXC. Which is a development that I have mixed and nuanced feelings about. (Again, I’m willing to discuss it, but it’s best left to one-on-one conversations.) Anyways, I’m not going to be seeking out any other comic shows. I’m going to try and make the best out of my investment in the Herbert Cooper Gallery and on-line sales instead.

RECORDS LISTENED TO APRIL 2024

Milestone: Thee Dagger Debs’s self-titled LP was 1000th record I listened to this year was from Kate’s collection. I’m not sure how she got hip to the Dagger Debs, other than just knowing that Damaged Goods is a generally excellent label. However it ended up in my household, I’m happy about it!  A loud three piece with a distinctive 60s Mod/R&B bent… Maybe with a touch of 70s glam in the Chin-Chapman vein. Certainly worthy of being a milestone marker in my 2024 vinyl tour

With all the trips and shows and such, I listened to the least number of records/month in April to date this year. My compulsive side hates reporting that, but its not like I’m doing this for money or anything. Just a weird virtue signal about putting my money where my mouth is in terms of enjoying vinyl records.  Anyways… Here’s the full April list, even if its comparatively puny:

Date	Artist	Title	Format	Size
1-Apr	Sweet	Desolation Boulevard	LP	12′
2-Apr	Gories	The Shaw Tapes: Live in Detroit 5/27/88	LP	12″
2-Apr	Alberto Y Los Trio Paranoias	Skite	LP	12″
2-Apr	Searchers	Meet The Searchers: Needles and Pins	LP	12″
2-Apr	Secret Service	It’s All Happening Here	EP	12″
2-Apr	Conway Twitty	What Am I Living For?	Single	7″
2-Apr	Sheb Wooley	Purple People eater	Single	7″
2-Apr	Conway Twitty	Lonely Blue Boy	Single	7″
2-Apr	Wildebeests	Just Like Me	EP	7″
2-Apr	Rolling Stones	Dandelion	Single	7″
2-Apr	Saints	Let’s Pretend	Single	7″
2-Apr	Screamin’ Furies	Self-Titled	EP	7″
2-Apr	Sherbert	Worst Friend	Single	7″
2-Apr	Ronnie Spector	Try Some Buy Some	Single	7″
2-Apr	Rachel Sweet	B-A-B-Y	Single	7″
2-Apr	Rachel Sweet	Fool’s Gold	Single	7″
2-Apr	Chris Isaak	First comes the Night	LP	12″x2
3-Apr	Magic Sam	Easy Baby	LP	12′
3-Apr	Boys	Self-Titled	LP	12″
3-Apr	Booker T & the MGs	Soul Dressing	LP	12″
3-Apr	Dean Martin	Best of Dean Martin	LP	12″
3-Apr	Muffs	Self-Titled	LP	12″
3-Apr	Johnny Moped	Cycledelic	LP	12″
5-Apr	Pill Box	Holly	Single	7″
5-Apr	Makes	Music to Suffer By	EP	7″
5-Apr	Split: Guitar Wolf & The Statics	Bad Reputation/Rebel Kind	Single	7″
5-Apr	Edwin Starr	Agent Double O Soul	Single	7″
5-Apr	Rufus Thomas	Willy Nilly	Single	7″
5-Apr	Dee Dee Sharp	Mashed Potato Time	Single	7″
5-Apr	Untamed Youth	Doin’ me In	EP	7″
5-Apr	Clay willis & Billy Blaylock	Lover’s Dream	Single	7″
5-Apr	Alex Chilton	Dusted in memphis	LP	12″
5-Apr	Marvellettes	My Baby Must Be A Magician	Single	7″
5-Apr	Little Richard	Shake A Hand (If You Can)	Single	7″
5-Apr	Patrick D Martin	Computer Datin’	Single	7″
5-Apr	Rick Springfield	I’ve Done Everything For You	Single	7″
5-Apr	Thee Headcoats	Girl from ’62	Single	7″
5-Apr	Scandal	Goodbye To You	Single	7″
5-Apr	Ron Silva & the Monarchs	Self-Titled	EP	7″
5-Apr	Jackie Wilson	Baby Work Out	Single	7″
6-Apr	Ramones	Leave Home	LP	12″
6-Apr	Heretics	Search and destroy	Single	7″
6-Apr	Flat Duo Jets	Des Romweber/Simon Chardiet two Great Guitars	Single	7″
6-Apr	Deep Reduction	Black Tulip	Single	7″
6-Apr	Eyeliners	Do The Zombie	Single	7″
6-Apr	Esquerita	Hittin’ on Nothing	Single	7″
6-Apr	Carthays	Betty Jo	Single	7″
6-Apr	Butterflys	The Swim	Single	7″
6-Apr	1313 Mockingbird Lane	Problems	Single	7″
6-Apr	Barry & The Tamerlanes	I Wonder What She’s Doing Tonight?	Single	7″
7-Apr	Alberto Y Los Trio Paranoias	Snuff Rock	EP	7″
8-Apr	Jimmy Reed	At Soul City	LP	12″
8-Apr	Marty Robbins	Greatest Hits	LP	12″
8-Apr	Stooges	Rubber Legs	EP	12″
8-Apr	Ten Commandments	Weird Out	LP	12″
8-Apr	Various-Artists	Wizzz Vol. 2	LP	12″
8-Apr	Various-Artists	Wizzz Vol. 3	LP	12″
9-Apr	Roy Loney & the Phantom Movers	Phantom Tracks	EP	12″
9-Apr	David Johansen	Live It Up	LP	12″
9-Apr	King Usniewicz & The USniewictones	Doing The Woo Hoo	LP	12″
9-Apr	Lazy Cowgirls	A Little Sex and Death	LP	12″
9-Apr	Little Phil & the Night Shadows	Patriarchs of Garage Rock	LP	12″
9-Apr	Shorty Long	Here Comes The Judge	Single	7″
9-Apr	Lost	Who Do You Love	Single	7″
9-Apr	Lyres	Stay Away	Single	7″
9-Apr	Manual Scan	Self-Titled	EP	7″
9-Apr	Various-Artists	Girls with Guitars Know Why	LP	12″
9-Apr	Various-Artists	Shutdown 66	LP	12″
10-Apr	Roy Head	Treat Her Right	LP	12″
10-Apr	Dyke & the Blazers	So Sharp	LP	12″
10-Apr	Lita Ford	Lita	LP	12″
10-Apr	Supercharger	Self-Titled	LP	12″
10-Apr	Tombstones	Preachin;, Prayin’, Guitar Playin’	LP	12″
10-Apr	Baby Washington	That’s How Heartaches Are Made	LP	12″
10-Apr	UK Subs	Another Kind of Blues	LP	12″
10-Apr	Records	Rock n Roll Love Letter	EP	12″
10-Apr	Slade	In Flames	LP	12″
10-Apr	Sons of Hercules	Get Lost	LP	12″
10-Apr	Otis Redding	In Person At the Whisky A Go Go	LP	12″
16-Apr	Wild Zeros	Homesick	Single	7″
16-Apr	Brentwoods	Self-Titled	EP	7″
16-Apr	Feelers	Nothing Always	EP	7″
16-Apr	Elvis Costello	I Don’t Want To Go To Chelsea	EP	7″
16-Apr	Question Mark & the Mysterians	(Girl) You Captivate Me	Single	7″
16-Apr	Herman’s Hermits	I’m Into Something Good	Single	7″
16-Apr	Psycotic Pineapple	I Wanna Get Rid of You	Single	7″
16-Apr	Pretty Things	Big City	EP	7″
16-Apr	Coasters	Yakety Yak	Single	7″
16-Apr	Larry G Hudson	shop Around	Single	7″
16-Apr	Jerry Lee Lewis	No More Hanging On	Single	7″
16-Apr	Bangles	Walk Like An Egyptian	Single	7″
16-Apr	Tom Petty	Apartment Song	Single	7″
16-Apr	Dave Clark Five	Can’t You See She’s Mine	Single	7″
16-Apr	Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers with Stevie Nicks	Needles and Pins	Single	7″
16-Apr	Archie and the Bunkers & The Cleveland Steamers	Archie and the Bunkers Meet The Cleveland Steamers	Single	7″
16-Apr	Beach Boys	Surfin’ Surfari	Single	7″
16-Apr	Pretenders	Back on the Chain Gang	Single	7″
16-Apr	Bantam Rooster	Miss Luxury	Single	7″
16-Apr	Peach Kelli Pop	Mind reader	Single	7″
16-Apr	Real Kids	Outta Place	LP	12″
17-Apr	Supremes	Meet the Supremes	LP	12″
17-Apr	Gants	Road Runner	LP	12″
17-Apr	Clash	Self-Titled	LP	12″
17-Apr	Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers	Hard Promises	LP	12″
17-Apr	Cars	Greatest Hits	LP	12″
18-Apr	Jack Scott	Groove	LP	12″
18-Apr	Drags	45×3	LP	12″
18-Apr	Cramps	Smell of Female	EP	12″
19-Apr	Metros	Self-Titled	LP	12″
19-Apr	Bob Dylan	Greatest Hits	LP	12″
19-Apr	Mighty Mofos	Mighty Mofos EP	EP	12″
19-Apr	Mants	Do the Dummy	EP	12″
19-Apr	Shoes	Tongue twister	LP	12″
19-Apr	Various-Artists	Indie Scene ’77	LP	12″x
20-Apr	Real Kids	Shake Outta Control	LP	12″
20-Apr	Man or Astroman?	Defcon 5… 4… 3… 2… 1…	LP	12″
20-Apr	Hank McCoy & the Deadringers	Self-Titled	LP	12″
21-Apr	Thee Mighty Caesars	Ides of March	LP	12″
21-Apr	Jimmy Ruffin	Sings Top Ten	LP	12″
21-Apr	Joe Turner	Rock & Roll	LP	12″
21-Apr	Preacher Jack	Rock & Roll Preacher	LP	12″
22-Apr	Various-Artists	Fire on the Strings	LP	12″
22-Apr	Clovers	Their Greatest Recordings	LP	12″
22-Apr	Doll	Desire Me	Single	12″
22-Apr	Dagger Debs	Self-Titled	LP	12″
22-Apr	Replacements	Unsuitable for Airplay The Lost KFAI Concert	LP	12″x2
23-Apr	Gene Simmons	Good Ole’ Country Music (Rock & Roll Music)	Single	7″
23-Apr	Chuck Sims	Life ISn’t Long Enough	Single	7″
23-Apr	Sir Bald Diddley & His Right Honourable Big Wigs	Introducing Sir Bald Diddley and his Right Honourable Big WIgs	EP	7″
23-Apr	Sit N’ Spin	Primate Mixer Party	Single	7″
23-Apr	Sit N’ Spin	Invisible Man	Single	7″
23-Apr	Mickey & Ludella	Self-Titled	LP	12″
24-Apr	Jackie Wilson	Jackie Sings the Blues	LP	12″
24-Apr	Fleshtones	Wheel of Talent	LP	12″
24-Apr	Prisoners	Wisermiserdelmeza	LP	12″
24-Apr	Ventures	Wild Thing	LP	12″
24-Apr	X	Los Angeles	LP	12″
25-Apr	Replacements	Not Ready for Prime Time Live at the Cabaret Metro, Chicago, January 11, 1986	LP	12″x2
25-Apr	Bobby Fuller Four	I Fought The Law	LP	12″
25-Apr	Dyin’ Shames	Self-Titled	LP	12″
25-Apr	Grandpa Jones	Everybody’s Grandpa	LP	12″
25-Apr	T-Rex	Slider	LP	12″
25-Apr	Ramones	Too Tough To Die	LP	12″
25-Apr	Radio Stars	Songs for Swinging Lovers	LP	12″
26-Apr	Trash Brats	Must Be The Cocaine	Single	7″
26-Apr	Von Zippers	Twist Off	Single	7″
26-Apr	Witch Doctors	Going To A Graveyard	EP	7″
26-Apr	Rusty York	Truck Driver’s Blues	Single	7″
26-Apr	Johnny Thunders	Critic’s Choice	EP	7″
26-Apr	Supersuckers	Junk	Single	7″
26-Apr	Real Kids	All Kindsa Girls	Single	7″
26-Apr	Paul Revere & the Raiders	Ups and Downs	Single	7″
26-Apr	Boss Tweeds	Goin’ Away	Single	7″
26-Apr	Rezillos	Scuba Scuba	Single	7″
26-Apr	Cozmik Elektras	That’s Girl Action!	EP	7″
26-Apr	Chubbies	I Love My Label	Single	7″
26-Apr	Ray Davies	Quiet Life	Single	7″
26-Apr	George Darro & the Vikings	Viking Twist	Single	7″
26-Apr	Fleshtones	Girl From Baltimore	Single	7″
26-Apr	Fabulous Poodles	Work Shy	Single	7″
26-Apr	Insomniacs	Sylvia Gray	Single	7″
26-Apr	Hellacopters	Riot on the Rocks	Single	7″
26-Apr	Lazy Cowgirls	Long Goodbye	EP	7″
26-Apr	Kingsnakes	Round Trip Ticket	Single	7″
26-Apr	George Jones	Stranger In the House	Single	7″
26-Apr	Nick Lowe	My Heart Hurts	EP	7″x2
29-Apr	War	Why Can’t We Be Friends	Single	7″
29-Apr	Nick Lowe	Keep It Out of Sight	Single	7″
29-Apr	Al Perry	Ol’ What’s Her Name	EP	7″
29-Apr	Permanent Wave	Self-Titled	EP	7″
29-Apr	Pebbles	I Want To Be Loved By You	Single	7″
29-Apr	Jerry Lee Lewis	Original Greatest Hits	LP	12″
29-Apr	Chinese Millionaires	Detroit Double Cross	LP	12″
29-Apr	Brownsville Station	Air Special	LP	12″
29-Apr	April March	Paris In April	LP	12″
29-Apr	Holly Golightly	Serial Girlfriend	LP	12″
30-Apr	Dick Dale	Tribal Thunder	LP	12″
30-Apr	Tommy Tutone	Self-Titled	LP	12″
30-Apr	Subsonics	A Lot to Forget	LP	12″
30-Apr	Small Faces	History of the Small Faces	LP	12″
30-Apr	Various-Artists	Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs Motion Picture Soundtrack	LP	12″
30-Apr	Sir Bald Diddley & His Right Honourable Big Wigs	What’s in Your Fridge	LP	12″
30-Apr	999	High Energy Plan	LP	12″
30-Apr	Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels	Take A Ride	LP	12″

Last week I had the distinct pleasure of heading down to Austin to visit some old friends. The trip coincided with STAPLE!, Austin’s independent media festival. (I had originally thought about tabling at the show, but in the end it was best just to visit as a fan! Of particular interest for me were the tables hosted by Mattchee (I’ve been a fan for a couple years!), J. Michael Stovall (Who I feel like I should have been a fan of for years), and Logan Beecher (new artist to me, but LOOKIT THAT ROCK N ROLL KNIGHT!!!!) among others!

Of course, I visited some stores as well. There wasn’t a whole lot of time and I was catching up with my friends more than tourist-ing, so maybe not as in depth a comic/record/neat-stuff exploration as I would normally take on vacation. The first stop on recommendation was an antique/curiosity shop called Uncommon Objects. I ended up buying the old photos below, which I’ve already used to draft a ghost story likey to be a zine soon. It was a very cool shop. If I hadn’t been traveling and on a limited luggage space and budget, I could’ve dropped a pretty penny. Highly recommended!

Right across the street from Uncommon Objects is End of an Ear records, which I’m pretty sure was at a different location the last time I was in Austin. Its a very nice shop, and I like the way they have their 45s set up. (I browsed the LPs, but again… Travelling.) This also might result in a zine (Tales from the Crate, though I have two of those I’m currently working on already!) Apologies to whoever tried to hide the white-label-promo copy of ? and the Mysterians’ “(Girl) you Captivate Me” in the cheap section on the bottom shelf. Found it. Bought it. Actually, not sorry.

I had not planned to buy anymore stuff… But happenstance brought me to a strip mall that had a comic shop (Tribe Comics and Games) where I picked up a local book about Bigfoot knowing karate…. Titled “Bigfoot Knows Karate” and a discount collection of old EC Weird Science comics. I was pleasantly surprised that they had a small local section.

Next strip mall over was a Half-Priced Book with a particularly good selection of 45s. Most of those will be fuel for the Sketchbook Picture Sleeves project, but there are a couple of keepers. Dig the art on the Peach Kelli Pop disc!

What Happened In March 2024?

March was a busy month personally and day-job wise, which led to not a lot of things getting done for Nix Comics. (That trend has lasted into April, seems. I can’t believe it’s already the 9th!) I had some sales at the Herbert Cooper Gallery, though not enough to cover the rent for my space there. I need to put some work into making that space work a little better, so hopefully you’ll see more from me soon on that front.

It was my birthday on March 29th. I turned 53! I managed to stretch my celebration out from Thursday the 28th to Sunday the 31st, because I’m old now and everything takes longer. Thursday was dinner with Kate and our good friends Mike and Heather at the nautically themed Windward passage. Friday was pizza at Fibonacci’s. Saturday was a trip down to Cincinnati for a record buying binge at the Northside Record Fair and Shake-It Records, followed by a shopping spree at the giant grocery emporium Jungle Jim’s. The latter spree let me put out a nice table for a brunch time celebration with friends at home.

Here is a partial picture of my Record Fair and Shake-It Haul. (For the full list of B-Day records, its all but two of the records dated 3/31 below in the “Records Listened To” report. I’ll let you guess which two I already owned.)

Anyways… I thought it was more important to add the comics I grabbed at Shake-It. How is there so much great stuff there every time I go? get with it Cinci comics kids… there’s a cool hidey-hole of books that you should be supporting!

Records Listened To In March 2024

Includes all of the records purchased at the Northside Record Fair and Shake It in the 30th, natch! I listened to 230 records total, kind of a low number, but work kept me from any real deep dives. I did ask for themes from Facebook friends for my daily record pulls for my work day. I only got to such four pulls, and only wrote up two of them. Perhaps when I am a man of leisure I can do better!
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Cover songs that Hop Genres

Date	Artist	Title	Format	Size
1-Mar	Irving Ashby	Big Guitar	Single	7″
1-Mar	Paul Revere & the Raiders	Ups and Downs	Single	7″
1-Mar	Shirley Adams	In Case I Ever Cross Your Mind	Single	7″
1-Mar	Sleepy LaBeef	Got You On My Mind	Single	7″
1-Mar	Alvin Stardust	You You You	Single	7″
1-Mar	Al’s Untouchables	Guts in the Garage	EP	7″
1-Mar	Alvin Stardust	A Wonderful Time Up There	Single	7″
1-Mar	Adam Ant	Goody Two Shoes	Single	7″
1-Mar	Alvin Stardust	Weekend	Single	7″
1-Mar	Alarm Clocks	Ramona	Single	7″
1-Mar	Alvin Stardust	Pretend	Single	7″
1-Mar	Dave “Baby” Cortez	Happy Organ	Single	7″
1-Mar	Alvin Stardust	I Want You Back In My Life again	Single	7″
1-Mar	Revillos	Scuba Scuba	Single	7″
1-Mar	Nikki & The Corvettes	Yummy Yummy Yummy	Single	7″
1-Mar	Cynics	Christmas Tour 93	Single	7″
1-Mar	Cynics	Private Suicide	Single	7″
1-Mar	Cynics	Learn To Lose	Single	7″
1-Mar	Count Bishops	Speedball	Single	7″
1-Mar	Cosmic Psychos	She’s A Lost Cause	Single	7″
1-Mar	Accel 4	Don’t Stop is The Keyword	EP	7″
1-Mar	Raunch Hands	Stomp It!	EP	7″
1-Mar	Ferlin Husky	One More Time	LP	12″
3-Mar	Darlene Love	Wait ‘Til My Bobby Comes	Single	7″
4-Mar	Squares	Get Hip?!!	EP	7″
4-Mar	Standells	Zebra In My Kitchen	Single	7″
4-Mar	Stents	Meet Mike Hate	Single	7″
4-Mar	Thee Mighty Caesars	Cowboys Are Square	Single	7″
4-Mar	Thee Stash	Suave As Old Arsholes	Single	7″
4-Mar	Thee Stash	Should I Suck or should I Blow	Single	7″
4-Mar	Surfaris	Murphy the Surfie	Single	7″
4-Mar	Mel Tills	Life Turned Her That Way	Single	7″
4-Mar	Timbuk 3	My Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades	Single	7″
4-Mar	Gary Numan	Cars	Single	7″
4-Mar	Ohio Express	Yummy Yummy Yummy	Single	7″
4-Mar	Ohio Express	Beg Borrow And Steal	Single	7″
4-Mar	Ollie & the Nightingales	I Got A Sure Thing	Single	7″
4-Mar	Olympics	Big Boy Pete	Single	7″
4-Mar	Cramps	Bad Music for Bad People	LP	12″
4-Mar	Ramones	Leave Home	LP	12″
4-Mar	Ramones	Too Tough To Die	LP	12″
4-Mar	Ramones	Rocket to Russia	LP	12″
4-Mar	Ramones	End of the Century	LP	12″
4-Mar	Bo Diddley	Bo Diddley’s a Gunslinger	LP	12″
5-Mar	Bo Diddley	Go! Bo Diddley	LP	12″
5-Mar	Bo Diddley	Bo Diddley In The Spotlight	LP	12″
5-Mar	Who	Sings My Generation	LP	12″
5-Mar	Wreckless Eric	Le Beat Group Electrique	LP	12″
5-Mar	Camper Van Beethoven	Camper Van Beethoven II & III Plus	LP	12″x2
5-Mar	Kinks	Kink Kronikles	LP	12″x2
5-Mar	Various-Artists	Twisted Tales from the Vinyl Wasteland	LP	12″
5-Mar	Fats Domino	Valley of Tears	Single	7″
5-Mar	Fats Domino	Blueberry Hill	Single	7″
5-Mar	Lee Dorsey	Working In A Coal Mine	Single	7″
5-Mar	Doctor Feelgood	Milk and Alcohol	Single	7″
6-Mar	Who	Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy	LP	12″
6-Mar	Who	Who rocks Harder?	EP	12″
6-Mar	Various-Artists	Wizzz	LP	12″
6-Mar	Wreckless Eric	Leisureland	LP	12″
6-Mar	King Khan & BBQ Show	Self-Titled	LP	12″
6-Mar	Thee Mighty Caesars	Caesars of Trash	LP	12″
6-Mar	Marshmallow Overcoat	Beverly Pepper	EP	12″
8-Mar	Dale Hawkins	La-Do-Dada	Single	7″
8-Mar	Fleshtones	I Can’t Hide	Single	7″
8-Mar	Fleshtones	Girl from Baltimore	Single	7″
8-Mar	Fleshtones	All Around The World	Single	7″
8-Mar	Connie Francis	Lipstick on Your Collar	Single	7″
8-Mar	Frampton Brothers	Like An Oliver stone	Single	7″
8-Mar	Frampton Brothers	Do the Chair	Single	7″
8-Mar	Freddie & The Four Gone Conclusions	Stand Up	Single	7″
8-Mar	Bobby Freeman	Do You Wanna Dance	Single	7″
8-Mar	Bobby Freeman	Betty Lou Got A New Pair of Shoes	Single	7″
8-Mar	Terry Gibson	Tell Tale Heart	Single	7″
8-Mar	Girls!	Rodney	Single	7″
8-Mar	Girlschool	Fox on the Run	Single	7″
8-Mar	Jimmie Haskell Orchestra	Astrosonic	Single	7″
8-Mar	Wilbert Harrison	Get It While You Can	Single	7″
8-Mar	Split: Girl Trouble / Pop Defect	Don’t Be Grateful / Cold Shoulder	Single	7″
8-Mar	Holly Golightly	Listen	Single	7″
8-Mar	Giljoteens	Without You	EP	7″
8-Mar	Mickey Gilley	Rockin	EP	7″
8-Mar	Golden Earring	Radar Love	Single	7″
8-Mar	Paul Collins	Out of My Head	LP	12″
8-Mar	Paul Collins	King of Power Pop	LP	12″
8-Mar	Rachel Gordon & the Very Idea	Self-Titled	EP	7″
8-Mar	Ian Gomm	Here It Comes Again (That Feeling)	Single	7″
8-Mar	Ian Gomm	Hold On	Single	7″
9-Mar	Mighty Hannibal	Hymn No. 5	Single	7″
9-Mar	Wanda Jackson	Windy City Redux	Single	7″
9-Mar	Durwood Haddock	When The Swelling Goes Down	Single	7″
9-Mar	Gore Gore Girls	Fight Fire	Single	7″
9-Mar	Hardrock Gunther	Don’t Throw No Benefits for Me	Single	7″
9-Mar	Deon Jackson	Love Makes The World Go Around	Single	7″
9-Mar	Holly & the Italians	Just for Tonight	Single	7″
9-Mar	Split: Holly & Joey / Holly & the Italians	I Got You Babe	Single	7″
9-Mar	Hollywood Argyles	Alley Oop	Single	7″
9-Mar	Hollywood Flames	Buzz Buzz Buzz	Single	7″
9-Mar	“Mad” Maynard Horlick	Go Go Rip Van Winkle	Single	7″
9-Mar	Hot Shots	Why Don’t You Haul Off and Love Me	Single	7″
9-Mar	Jags	Woman’s World	Single	7″
9-Mar	Various-Artists	Munster Dance Hall Favorites Vol. 2	LP	12″
9-Mar	Kinks	Something Else	LP	12″
9-Mar	101ers	Elgin Avenue Breakdown Revisited	LP	12″x2
9-Mar	Ar-Kaics	Self-Titled	LP	12″
9-Mar	Mister Airplane Man	Jacaranda Blue	LP	12″
10-Mar	Various-Artists	History of Northwest Rock Vol. 3	LP	12″
10-Mar	Various-Artists	Greasy Mike’s Lost & Lonely Ladies Volume 6	LP	12″
11-Mar	Feedbacks	Pop Invaders	EP	7″
11-Mar	Gene Vincent	Be-Bop A Lula	Single	7″
11-Mar	New Trolls	Quella Musica	Single	7″
11-Mar	Muddy Waters	Garbage Man	Single	7″
11-Mar	Elvis	Guitar Man	Single	7″
12-Mar	Come Ons	Self-Titled	LP	12″
12-Mar	Kingsmen	Killer Joe	Single	7″
12-Mar	Music Machine	Talk Talk	Single	7″
12-Mar	Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs	Lil’ Red Riding Hood	Single	7″
12-Mar	Shelley Fabares	Johnny Angel	Single	7″
12-Mar	Wanda Jackson	Right or Wrong	Single	7″
12-Mar	Finks	Dirty Rotten Finks	Single	7″
13-Mar	Bobby Bare	Detroit City	Single	7″
13-Mar	Suzi Quatro	Your Mama Won’t Like Me	LP	12″
13-Mar	Alice Cooper	The Breadcrumbs	EP	10″
13-Mar	Question Mark & the Mysterians	Cavestomp Presents Are You For Real	LP	12″
13-Mar	Edwin Starr	25 Miles	LP	12″
13-Mar	Alice Cooper	Love It To Death	LP	12″
13-Mar	Cub Koda	Let’s Get Funky	Single	7″
13-Mar	Trash Brats	American Disaster	LP	12″
13-Mar	Nikki Corvette & the Stingrays	Back to Detroit	LP	12″
14-Mar	Ko & the Knockouts	Self-Titled	LP	12″
14-Mar	Gories	House Rockin’	LP	12″
14-Mar	Gore Gore Girls	Get The Gore	LP	12″
14-Mar	Various-Artists	Sympathetic Sounds of Detroit	LP	12″
16-Mar	Roy Loney & The Phantom Movers	Scientific Bombs Away	LP	12″
16-Mar	Rolling Stones	Singles Collection* The London Years	Boxset	12″x4
18-Mar	Various-Artists	We Do ’em Our Way	LP	12″
18-Mar	Downliners Sect	The Birth of Suave	LP	12″
18-Mar	Big Daddy	Self-Titled	LP	12″
18-Mar	Ray Charles	Modern Sounds In Country and Western Music	LP	12″
18-Mar	Etta James	Deep In The Night	LP	12″
18-Mar	Miriam	Nobody’s Baby	LP	12″
18-Mar	Miriam	Down Today	LP	12″
19-Mar	Strangeloves	I Want Candy	LP	12″
19-Mar	Saints	(I’m) Stranded	LP	12″
19-Mar	Saints	Eternally Yours	LP	12″
19-Mar	Exploding White Mice	I Just Want My Fun	EP	7″
19-Mar	Exploding White Mice	In A Nest of Vipers	EP	12″
19-Mar	Varmints	Spread Out	EP	12″
19-Mar	Painters & Dockers	Love Planet	LP	12″
19-Mar	Cosmic Psychos	Blokes You Can Trust	LP	12″
19-Mar	Radio Birdman	Radios Appear	LP	12″
19-Mar	AC / DC	Jailbreak ’74	EP	12″
19-Mar	AC / DC	Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap	LP	12″
20-Mar	Screamin’ Jay Hawkins	Screamin’ The Blues	LP	12″
20-Mar	Hector’s Pets	Pet-O-Feelia	LP	12″
20-Mar	Hives	AKA Idiot	EP	12″
20-Mar	Robert Gordon with Link Wray	Fresh Fish Special	LP	12″
20-Mar	Nick Lowe	Jesus of Cool	LP	12″
21-Mar	Naz Nomad & The Nightmares	I Had Too Much To Dream last Night	Single	7″
21-Mar	Radio Stars	Nervous Wreck	Single	7″
21-Mar	Mystic Eyes	Can’t Wait To Love You	Single	7″
21-Mar	Quitty & The Don’ts	Running Out of Tme	Single	7″
21-Mar	Prince & The Revolution	Raspberry Beret	Single	7″
21-Mar	Mummula	Castle Mummula	EP	7″
21-Mar	Primate V	Nova EP	EP	7″
21-Mar	Mummies	You Must Fight To Live On The Planet of the Apes	EP	7″
21-Mar	Wilson Pickett	Funky Broadway	Single	7″
21-Mar	Motorhead	Motorhead	Single	7″
21-Mar	Wilson Pickett	Mini-Skirt Minnie	Single	7″
21-Mar	Penguins	Earth Angel	Single	7″
21-Mar	Party Lights	He’s Gonna Hurt You	EP	7″
21-Mar	Graham Parker	Hold Back The Night	EP	7″
21-Mar	Outsiders	Thinking About Today	Single	7″
21-Mar	New Bomb Turks	So Young So fair So Debonair	Single	7″
21-Mar	Neptunas	Surfatorium	EP	7″
22-Mar	Wilmer & The Dukes	Heavy Time	Single	7″
22-Mar	Brides	Pushed Around	Single	7″
22-Mar	Brides	Bad attitude	Single	7″
22-Mar	Zeros	I Don’t Wanna	Single	7″
22-Mar	Zeros	Don’t Push Me Around	LP	12″
22-Mar	Elvis	Elvis TV Special	LP	12″
22-Mar	Wilbert Harrison	Let’s Work Together	LP	12″
23-Mar	Various-Artists	She’s so Bad! Unissued Garage Acetates Vol 2	LP	12″
24-Mar	Kilburn & the High Roads	Wotabunch	LP	12″
24-Mar	Dwight Yoakam	Buenos Noches From A Lonely Room	LP	12″
24-Mar	Zantees	Out for Kicks	LP	12″
25-Mar	Ian Gomm	The Village Voice	LP	12″
25-Mar	Johnny Cash	Everybody Loves A Nut	LP	12″
25-Mar	Long John Hunter	Oo Wee Baby	LP	12″
25-Mar	Guitar Wolf	Missile Me	LP	12″
25-Mar	Rolling Stones	Now!	LP	12″
25-Mar	Holly Golightly	Truly She Is None Other	LP	12″
26-Mar	Droogs	98 Steps	EP	12″
26-Mar	Motorhead	I Got Mine	Single	7″
26-Mar	Falll Outs	Here I Come And Other Hits	LP	12″
26-Mar	Fleshtones	Fleshtones vs. reality	LP	12″
26-Mar	Motorhead	Self-Titled	EP	7″
26-Mar	Motorhead	Louie Louie	Single	7″
27-Mar	Jules & the Polar Bears	Fonetiks	LP	12″
27-Mar	Jan & Dean	The Jan & Dean Story: their Greatest Hits	LP	12″
27-Mar	Jack Lee	Greatest Hits Col. 1	LP	12″
27-Mar	Hives	Veni Vedi Vicious	LP	12″
27-Mar	Tav Falco Panther Burns	Sugar Ditch Revisited	LP	12″
27-Mar	Jon & the Nightriders	Stampede!	LP	12″
27-Mar	Tex Ritter	Deck of Cards	EP	7″
28-Mar	Real Kids	Self-Titled	LP	12″
28-Mar	Paul Revere & the Raiders	In The Beginning	LP	12″
28-Mar	Fastbacks	Zucker	LP	12″
28-Mar	Thee Fourgiven	It Ain’t Pretty Down Here	LP	12″
29-Mar	Thee Mighty Caesars	John Lennon’s Corpse Revisited	LP	12″
29-Mar	Benny Joy	Rollin’ To The Juke Box Rock Benny Joy Story 1957-1961	LP	12″
29-Mar	Jimmy Martin	Moonshine Hollow	LP	12″
29-Mar	Hysteric Narcotics	Batteries Not Included	LP	12″
29-Mar	Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers	Modern Lover ’88	LP	12″
29-Mar	Brenda Lee	Little Miss Dynamite	LP	12″
31-Mar	Various-Artists	That Summer! Soundtrack	LP	12″
31-Mar	Various-Artists	Shakin’ Fit	LP	12″
31-Mar	Boss Martians	12 Evil Tales	LP	12″
31-Mar	Soft Boys	Can of Bees	LP	12″
31-Mar	Various-Artists	Stiff The Last Compilation	LP	12″
31-Mar	Astronauts	Rocket to Mars	EP	7″
31-Mar	Tav and Gabby Show	Tav and Gabby Show	Single	7″
31-Mar	Tav Falco Panther Burns	Memphis Beat	Single	7″
31-Mar	Carla Thomas	Separation	Single	7″
31-Mar	Greg Kihn Band	Jeopardy	Single	7″
31-Mar	Charlie & Inez Foxx	(1-2-3-4-5-6-7) Count The days	Single	7″
31-Mar	Deke Dickerson & the Sex-o-phonics	El Soccarrat	Single	7″
31-Mar	Yard Trauma	Some People	Single	7″
31-Mar	Invisible Men	Frustrator	Single	7″
31-Mar	Rubinoos	Lightning Love Affair	Single	7″
31-Mar	Split: Little Big Ian / Othermen	Je Ne Te Pardonnerai Pas  / Back From The Gravy	Single	Flexi

Last week when I asked my Facebook friends for a theme to base my day’s record listening on, I got a bunch of great responses.  I’ve decided to take a swing at all of them! (In no particular order.

1. Today I am going to do the suggestion “Covers that hop genres.” It’s actually a a little tough, because some of the best such covers are buried in LPs. I don’t usually skip around on LPs, so I’ll likely play a couple whole records to get to the pertinent stuff on them. (I may do a second take on this with only 45s. I got a bunch of themes too!)
2. Detroit
3. Aussie
4.Freedom
5. Stiv (Bators I presume)

Downliners Sect: The Birth of Suave: (LP, Hangman records Hang 42-Up) This record has quite a few covers, like most British Big Beat LPs have. I’m used to and fond of the usual American R&B and Blues covers from the Sect, but the reason I selected this LP is because until recently I didn’t know that the spooky grinder “Glendora” is actually a Perry Como cover!  (Thanks to Youtube channel Yesterday’s Papers for that tidbit and many more!) It’s definitely one of those covers that now leaves me perplexed in a “HOW in the world did they get here from THERE sort of ways.

Various Artists: We Do ‘Em Our Way: (LP, Music For Pleasure MFP 50481) Accomplishes what good cover song comps should do: Creates conversation. Good party record. I could probably go ny entire life without hearing the “Sex Pistols” version of “rock around the clock” again and be perfectly happy. It was funny the first few times that I heard it, but now its presence at the beginning of the this comp is an obstacle to listening to the whole record. The sex Pistols “stepping Stone” and Devo’s World Without Love.

Skid Roper & The Whirlin’ Spurs: Trails Plowed Under:  (LP, Triple X Records 51013-1)
This is a really great record. I wish that Skid had hung a few more of them together. There’s only one cover on this very country LP, but its a doozy of a genre hopper! Paint It Black, complete with a Kazoo fanfare. You kinda gotta hear it to believe it!

Ray Charles: Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music: (LP, ABC-Paramount T-90468) I think most folks would consider this album the gold standard for genre hopping covers. It’s probably the most favorite, and I do indeed love it….  But… I was struck by an interesting thought on this listen through. Charles’s versions are the ones that actually don’t hold up as well over time. The back up singers and string arrangements sound more than little old fashioned. The relatively stripped down versions hold up better, at least to my ear

Big Daddy: Self Titled: (LP, Rhino Records RNLP-852) OK. This is a novelty album, straight up. The premise is that a Sha-Na-Nesque band was lost on a desert isle for a couple of decades, and when they returned they tried to make the charts once again by performing new music in their old style. Not a bad gimmick. Not a great one either. The idea of doing (at the time) modern hits in a 50s or 60s style was pretty funny to me when I bought this record 30 years ago. Not as funny to my housemates at the time. I’ll stand by the Star Wars theme in Ventures style “Eye of the Tiger” have a certain amount of brilliance to them.

Etta James: Deep In The Night: (LP, Warner Brothers Records BSK 3156)
Basically a cover album, with some more in Etta’s expected wheelhouse than others. Alice Cooper’s only “Women Bleed” shows that in fact any song is in her Wheelhouse. Her version of “Take A Little Piece of My Heart” is pretty amazing too, though you’d expect that given how much Janis Joplin borrowed from other women blues artists. She even almost makes fuckin’ “Take It To The Limit” a credible song.

Listening to a ton of records everyday is a lot of fun and inspiring.  It struck me this morning though, that its kind of random and aimless the way I go about it. (Often literally random, I walk up to my shelves and stick a finger on record to play.)

So today I asked my Facebook pals for a theme/prompt to pull a bunch of records. I got a bunch of great ones, but my friend Trish hit home with Detroit!  So here’s my “Detroit” themed playlist:

Bobby Bare: Detroit City: (Single, RCA Victor 47-8183)The first song that popped to mind about Detroit. (I don’t think Bobby ever lived there, but hey its a “theme” not a mandate to use only Detroit area artists.)I  really identify with the notion of unmet expectations that are woven through this country tune. “By day I make the cars, at night I make the bars” is about the most poetic indictment of the reality of an artistic life ever.

Suzi Quatro: Your Mama Won’t Like Me: (LP, Arista AL 4035): This record is a Chapman and Chinn glam classic. Weird, funky, mean and yet still very bubblegum. Suzi’s best album from this era was probably the Self Titled LP with Can the Can and the Detroit ode Shine My Machine, but this one is a really fun listen, with the title track, I Bit Off More Than I Can Chew, and her cover of Fever being standouts to me. 

Alice Cooper: The Breadcrumbs: (10” EP, Ear Music 0214216EMU) Putting aside the ridiculous sticker calling this a limited edition of 20,000 copies, I was excited to buy this record a couple years ago. It’s a love story from Alice Cooper to his hometown with collaborations by other Detroit rockers like Mick Collins, Mark Farner, and Wayne Kramer. Perhaps not surprisingly my favorite song is Chains of Love with Collins, done as a medley with Devil in A Blue Dress ala Mitch Ryder.

? and the Mysterians: Cave Stomp Presents Are You For Real?: (LP, Rock Beat Records ROC 3456)  Essentially a greatest hits record produced for Record store day. Recorded after a live performance at the Cavestomp music fest. One of the most amazing live performers I’ve ever seen.. When I saw the band play at the tiny Rhumba Room in Columbus I thought I was going to get blow out the back window… SO MUCH ENERGY in such a small place.  Something had to give.

Edwin Starr: 25 Miles: (LP, Gordy GS940):  Natch, it could be a prompt on its own. I could easily spend a whole day playing cool Motown (and subsidiary label) records. This is my favorite, though. Maybe because it sounds like a Stax record. (Whoops!  Save it for a future “Memphis” theme day…)

Alice Cooper: Love It To Death: (LP, Warner Brothers WS 1883) Thing about Alice Cooper for me is that he always pulls me towards a deep dive. Maybe because the amazing and good songs are spread out across a bunch of of records. Knowing that I was already going to have to skip some of my favorite Detroit acts, I picked this album as the one most likely to satiate my compulsion. It worked, though an Alice Cooper deep dive my still be in my future

Cub Koda: Let’s Get Funky: (Single, New rose New 29): An only OK record by a generally better than OK album. Picking it for today was a concession to not having time to fit ina  full Brownsville Station LP.

Trash Brats: American Disaster Special Edition: (LP, Alien Snatch Records SNATCH 014) I have a deep affection for this band, stemming from the time that they played an in-store at Rudy Goose Comics. For a long time, the Trash Brats were one of those bands whose albums were only available on CD. I spent a long time hoping somebody would release their stuff on Vinyl. When Alien Snatch released this comp, I missed getting it new somehow, so I spent another long time waiting to find a used copy. I eventually did and there was much celebration in cow town.

Nikki Corvette & The Stingrays: Back To Detroit: (LP, Dollar Record records DRR 017)

I don’t know would you call this a “comeback” record?  The original Nikki & the Corvettes LP on Bomp! Records is a stone-cold power pop classic that came out in 1980.  My copy is a 1998 reissue, so it stayed popular enough to merit at least one repress.  This record (with the Stingrays, not Corvettes obviously) came out in 2006 and is at least as good. Better, I think. I certainly feel like I reach for it more than original LP! (Maybe instead of stone-cold, it’s red-hot) Ah fuck it… not a come back because Nikki clearly never went away.

HONORABLE MENTION:
I pulled the following records, but ran out of time in the day

• Ko & The Knockouts: Self Titled
• Gore Gore Girls: Get The Gore
• The Gories: House Rockin’
• Various Artists: Sympathetic Sounds of Detroit
• King Uszniewicz And His Uszniewicztones: Teenage Dance Party

WHAT HAPPENED IN FEBRUARY 2024

Hey! Lookit me hanging two “monthly updates” in a row! Surprising It was a challenging month at the day-job (a lot to do in a short month) and I’m still on gabapentin for my back… So things have been a little… foggy. For what it’s worth, I’m still plugging away and things are happening for Nix Comics, if at a slower pace than I’d like.

Conversations With My Inner Demons: I managed to write and draw something nearly every day in February. This includes thumbnails and ideas for a comic where I have conversations with my various Inner Demons (Read: neuroses). For instance, this guy pictured above is COMPULSOR who makes me obsessively do “work” that most people would classify as “procrastination.” I have about 30 full four panel strips in this series thumbnailed out in my journal. Hopefully I can make ’em nice looking and publish them as a book at some point in the near future.

FIRST CLASS WARFARE: Like many of my small press peers, I have boxes and boxes of the first four issues of my back stock. Specifically, I have over a 1,00 copies of the first four issues of Nix Comics Quarterly. I tried to offer them up for $10 post paid on social media, posts which got a lot a shares but no takers for whatever reason. No biggie, except I get bummed every time I look the boxes. So I’m taking the bull by the horn and mailing out issues to cool looking records, comics, and zines shops across the country. The hope is that whether the person opening them at the store keeps them, sells them, or re-gifts them, that they at eventually end up in a happy home.

Of course, USPS has something to say about this plan. I bought a bunch of manila envelopes and stamps to send out the comics as first class mail. The whole thing weights just under 11 ounces, so that should would. SHOULD. I had a particularly officious clerk tell me that packages weren’t flexible enough (four floppies in a manila envelope) and that books should be sent media rate. (Actually slightly more expensive in this case, and technically comics can’t be sent media rate.) If she were to process them, she told me, they would arrive postage due. A little at a loss, but already invested in the stamps, I sent out the first five packages out with postage sufficient for media mail… But I can’t help but note that this is another case of the USPS being a fucking obstacle small business instead of a catalyst.

RECORDS LISTENED TO IN FEBRUARY

This past month I listened to 354 records, a total that I wouldn’t be able to achieve with out the perk of a day-job that is almost entirely work-from-home. Yay cool day-job! In a weird compulsion (see Inner Demon notes above!) I was determined to hit an average of 10 records a day. Why? I dunno. I was compulsed. Interestingly, this brought it to my attention that I’ve been lax in adding all of my 7″ records to my discogs collection. (Also a compulsion, though a purposeful one. Someday either I or my wife will need to sell the collection.) …So expect me to listen to more 7″ records in March as well as I try to amend that database.

Date	Artist	Title	Format	Size
1-Feb	George Jones	Sings Country & Western Hits	LP	12″
1-Feb	Subsonics	Self-Titled	LP	12″
1-Feb	Dickies	10″ maxi-Single	EP	10″
1-Feb	Nervebreakers	Hijack The Radio	LP	12″
1-Feb	Thee Mighty Caesars	English Punk Rock Explosion	LP	12″
1-Feb	Replacements	Hootennay	LP	12″
1-Feb	Vibrators	V2	LP	12″
1-Feb	Varmints	Self-Titled	EP	12″
1-Feb	Vikings	Rock All	Single	7″
1-Feb	Gene Vincent	B-I-Bickey-Bi Bo Bo Go	Single	7″
1-Feb	Vipers	Never Alone	Single	7″
1-Feb	Vivoras	By Myself	Single	7″
1-Feb	Vogues	Five O’Clock World	Single	7″
2-Feb	5.6.7.8.s	Self-Titled	LP	12″
2-Feb	Warren Smith	Legendary Sun Performers	LP	12″
2-Feb	440s	Self-Titled	EP	7″
2-Feb	Groovy Movies	Self-Titled	EP	12″
2-Feb	Len Bright Combo	Combo Time	LP	12″
2-Feb	45s	Couldn’t Believe a Word	Single	7″
2-Feb	20/20	Strange Side of Love	EP	7″
2-Feb	10 Commandments	Where Ever I Go	Single	7″
2-Feb	9lb. Hammer	Ain’t Nothin’ To Do	Single	7″
2-Feb	5.6.7.8.s	Sho-Jo-JI	Single	7″
2-Feb	5.6.7.8.s	Bomb The Twist	Single	7″
2-Feb	5.6.7.8.s	Edie Is A Sweet Candy	EP	7″
2-Feb	5.6.7.8.s	I Need A Man	Single	7″
2-Feb	5.6.7.8.s	I Walk Like Jayne Mansfield	Single	7″
2-Feb	Question Mark & The Mysterians	Are You For real	Single	7″
2-Feb	Question Mark & The Mysterians	Sally Go Round The Roses	Single	7″
3-Feb	Booker T & The MGs	Hip Hug-Her	LP	12″
3-Feb	Rumour	Emotional Traffic	Single	7″
3-Feb	Merilee Rush	Angel of the Morning	Single	7″
3-Feb	Bobby Rydell	Wild One	Single	7″
3-Feb	Saints	(You Can’t Tamper With) The Temple of the Lord	Single	7″
3-Feb	Saints	Let’s Pretend	Single	7″
3-Feb	Saints	One Two Three Four	EP	7″
3-Feb	Young Fresh Fellows	Gorilla Time	Single	7″
3-Feb	Young Fresh Fellows	Don’t Blame It On Yoko	Single	7″
3-Feb	Young Fresh Fellows	Benzedrine Beat	EP	7″
3-Feb	Young Rascals	Come On Up	Single	7″
3-Feb	Zeros	I Don’t Wanna	Single	7″
3-Feb	Zombies	She’s Not There	Single	7″
3-Feb	Classics IV	Spooky	Single	7″
3-Feb	Otis Clay	Got To Find A Way	Single	7″
3-Feb	Jimmy Cliff	Wonderful World Beautiful People	Single	7″
3-Feb	Clintons	Girl Next Door	Single	7″
3-Feb	Clique	Superman	Single	7″
3-Feb	Clovers	Love Potion #9	Single	7″
3-Feb	Radio Stars	Songs For Swinging Lovers	LP	12″
5-Feb	Hank Ballard & The Midnighters	It’s twistin’ Time	Single	7″
5-Feb	Briefs	Off the Charts	LP	12″
5-Feb	Love	Da Capo	LP	12″
5-Feb	Banana Erectors with Psychotic Youth	You Got That Uh-Huh	Single	7″
5-Feb	Bananarama	Venus	Single	7″
5-Feb	Banana Splits	Play ‘n Sing Doin’ The Banana Split	EP	7″
5-Feb	Tenpole Tudor	Three Bells In A Row	EP	7″
5-Feb	Thanes	Don’t Change Your Mind	Single	7″
5-Feb	Split	Bangles: Hazy Shade of Winter/Joan Jett & the Blackhearts Lost You	Single	7″
5-Feb	Thee Headcoats	Girl From ’62	Single	7″
5-Feb	Thee Mighty Caesars	Cowboys Are Square	Single	7″
5-Feb	Thee Phantom F1ve	Jump Start	Single	7″
5-Feb	Jags	Standards	LP	12″
5-Feb	Kim Wilde	Cambodia	Single	7″
5-Feb	Vacant Lot	Just One Night	Single	7″
5-Feb	Bum	Go Crazy	Single	7″
5-Feb	Jill Read	Maybe	Single	7″
5-Feb	Real Kids	Down To You	Single	7″
5-Feb	Real Kids	Hot Dog	Single	7″
5-Feb	Real Kids	All Kindsa Girls	Single	7″
5-Feb	Rebel Set	Self-Titled	EP	7″
5-Feb	Records	Heart In Her Eyes	Single	7″
5-Feb	Records	Self-Titled	EP	7″
5-Feb	Red Devils	Self-Titled	EP	7″
5-Feb	Otis Redding	Respect	Single	7″
5-Feb	Hives	Death of Randy Fitzsimmons	LP	12″
6-Feb	Jackie & The Cedrics	Thunderstruck	EP	7″
6-Feb	Jackie & The Cedrics	9 Great Stomps	EP	7″x2
6-Feb	Jerry Lee Lewis	Country Songs for City Folk	LP	12″
6-Feb	Elvis	Elvis Presley	LP	12″
6-Feb	Southern Culture on the Skids	Liquored Up and Lacquered Down	LP	12″
6-Feb	Lears	I Won’t Remind You	Single	7″
6-Feb	Peggy Lee	Fever	Single	7″
6-Feb	Legendary Shack Shakers	She’s Gone Ahywire	Single	7″
6-Feb	Les Cactus	Self-Titled	EP	7″
6-Feb	Isley Brothers	Simon Says	Single	7″
6-Feb	Isley Brothers	Twist ‘n Shout	Single	7″
6-Feb	Isley Brothers	The Cow Jumped Over The Moon	Single	7″
6-Feb	Chris Isaak	Solitary Man	Single	7″
6-Feb	Chris Isaak	(You Can’t Do A Thing) To Stop Me	Single	7″
6-Feb	Isley Brothers	Twistin’ With Linda	Single	7″
6-Feb	Jona Lewie	Big Shot-Momentarily	Single	6″
6-Feb	Count Bishops	I Want Candy	Single	6″
6-Feb	Thee Headcoats	The Kids Are Square	LP	12″
6-Feb	Flakes	Back To School	LP	12″
7-Feb	Craig Moore & Friends with Jim McCarty	Sun Session	EP	7″
7-Feb	Mono Men	Remind Me	EP	7″
7-Feb	Mono Men	Mystery Girl	Single	7″
7-Feb	New Bomb Turks	Destroy-Oh-Boy!	LP	12″
7-Feb	Mono Men	Booze	EP	7″
7-Feb	Monotones	Book of Love	Single	7″
7-Feb	Moody Jackson	Dreams of a Punk Rock Princess	EP	7″
7-Feb	Marlowe Morris Quintet	Play The Thing	Single	7″
7-Feb	Mortals	Disintegration	EP	7″
7-Feb	Mortals	Making Time	Single	7″
7-Feb	Nerves	25th anniversary	EP	10″
8-Feb	Mojo Nixon	Otis	LP	12″
8-Feb	Mojo Nixon	Whereabouts Unknown	LP	12″
8-Feb	Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper	Self-Titled	LP	12″
8-Feb	Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper	Root Hog or Die	LP	12″
8-Feb	Mojo Nixon & the New Duncan Imperials	I’m Drunk	Single	7″
9-Feb	Gary Lewis & the Playboys	Just My Style	Single	7″
9-Feb	Huey Lewis & the News	Heart of Rock N Roll	Single	7″
9-Feb	Lew Lewis & His Band	Boogie in the Streets	Single	7″
9-Feb	Jerry Lee Lewis	Meat Man	Single	7″
9-Feb	Lew Lewis reformer	Win or Lose	Single	7″
9-Feb	Lew Lewis Band	Out for A Lark	Single	7″
9-Feb	Lew Lewis	1-30 2-30 3-35	Single	7″
9-Feb	Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper	Get Out of My Way	EP	12″
9-Feb	Mickey Jupp	Juppanese	LP	12″
9-Feb	Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper	Frenzy	LP	12″
10-Feb	Baby Shakes	Cause A Scene	LP	12″
10-Feb	Paul Collins	Out of My Head	LP	12″
10-Feb	Permanent Wave	Self-Titled	EP	7″
10-Feb	Barracudas	What You Want Is What You Get	Single	7″
11-Feb	April March	Chick Habit	EP	7″x2
11-Feb	Neil Sedaka	Breaking Up Is Hard To Do	Single	7″
11-Feb	David Seville	Witch Doctor	Single	7″
11-Feb	Sewergrooves	The Race Is Over	Single	7″
11-Feb	Sewergrooves	Piece of the Action	Single	7″
12-Feb	Kurt Baker Combo	Give It Up	Single	7″
12-Feb	Charlie Sexton	Beat’s So Lonely	Single	7″
12-Feb	Real Kids	No Place Fast	LP	12″
12-Feb	Subs	Gimme Your Heart	Single	7″
12-Feb	Ohio Express	Mercy	LP	12″
12-Feb	Subsonics	Voodoo Doll	EP	7″
12-Feb	Bald Guys	Atlantis Town	Single	7″
12-Feb	Subsonics	He’s A Keeper Of The Fire	Single	7″
12-Feb	Subsonics	Wind Up Doll	Single	7″
12-Feb	Greg Kihn Band	Rockihnroll	LP	12″
12-Feb	Mark Sultan	I Am The End	Single	7″
12-Feb	Milkshakes	Revenge	LP	12″
12-Feb	Supercharger	Don’t Mess Me Up	Single	7″
12-Feb	Sundowners	Snake Eyed Woman	Single	7″
12-Feb	Mr. Zero	Voodoo’s Eros	LP	12″
12-Feb	Kurt Baker	Want You Around	EP	7″
13-Feb	Fortune & Maltese & The Phabulous Pallbearers	Knaughty Knight	Single	7″
13-Feb	Fortune & Maltese & The Phabulous Pallbearers	Leave No Stone Unturned	Single	7″
13-Feb	Various-Artists	New Rose Records	LP	12″
13-Feb	Crystals	Then He Kissed Me	Single	7″
13-Feb	Jim Croce	Bad Bad Leroy Brown	Single	7″
13-Feb	Bob Crewe Generation	Music to Watch Girls By	Single	7″
13-Feb	Creedence Clearwater revival	Out My Back Door	Single	7″
13-Feb	Crawdaddys	Why Don’t You Smile Now	Single	7″
13-Feb	Cramps	Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White	Single	7″
13-Feb	Fools	Talk To Loretta	Single	7″
13-Feb	Tennessee Ernie Ford	Ol’ rockin’ Ern	Single	7″
13-Feb	Forty Fives	Get Out of My Way	Single	7″
13-Feb	Various-Artists	The Lost Starday Recoridngs	LP	12″
13-Feb	Little Killers	Self-Titled	LP	12″
13-Feb	Metros	Self-Titled	LP	12″
13-Feb	Morticia’s Lovers	Smash the Radio	LP	12″
13-Feb	Willie Nelson	The Troublemaker	LP	12″
13-Feb	Wilbert Harrison	Let’s Work Together	LP	12″
14-Feb	Town Cryers	Girl With The Blue Sweater	Single	7″
14-Feb	Total Coelo	I Eat Cannibals	Single	7″
14-Feb	Trailer Park Casanovas	Too Damn Bad	Single	7″
14-Feb	Tramps	Midnight Flyer	Single	7″
14-Feb	Trash	Priorities	Single	7″
14-Feb	T. Rex	Bang A Gong (Get It On)	Single	7″
14-Feb	Trash Brats	Rocket To Heaven	Single	7″
14-Feb	Ramones	Road to Ruin	LP	12″
14-Feb	Kinks	Live Life	Single	7″
14-Feb	Kinks	Sunny Afternoon	Single	7″
14-Feb	Joe Jackson	The Harder They Come	EP	7″
14-Feb	J.J. Jackson	But It’s Alright	Single	7″
14-Feb	Klark Kent	Don’t Care	EP	7″
14-Feb	Trash with Willie Alexander & Billy Montgomery	Carol’s Talking	Single	7″
15-Feb	Gladys Knight & the Pips	Friendship Train	Single	7″
15-Feb	Knack	Good Girls Don’t	Single	7″
15-Feb	Knockouts	Riot In Room 3C	Single	7″
15-Feb	Radiators	Enemies	Single	7″
15-Feb	Raging Storms	Dribble Twist	Single	7″
15-Feb	Eddie Rabbitt	Drivin’ My Life Away	Single	7″
15-Feb	Eddie Rabbitt	I Love A Rainy Night	Single	7″
15-Feb	Richie Ramone	I Fix his	Single	7″
15-Feb	Ramones	Carbona not Glue	Single	7″
15-Feb	Ramones	I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend	Single	7″
15-Feb	Swingin’ Fezmen	The Poobahs of Lesiure	EP	7″
15-Feb	Syndicate of Sound	Brown Paper Bag	Single	7″
15-Feb	Talking Heads	Burning Down the House	Single	7″
15-Feb	Talking Heads	Life During Wartime	Single	7″
15-Feb	Teengenerate	Wild Weekened	EP	7″
15-Feb	Cynics	Christmas Tour 93	Single	7″
15-Feb	Cynics	Buick MacKane	Single	7″
15-Feb	Cynics	Private Suicide	Single	7″
15-Feb	Ramones	Self-Titled	LP	12″
15-Feb	Jeff Dahl	Suicide City	Single	7″
16-Feb	David Johansen	In Style	LP	12″
16-Feb	Jack Scott	Rare Items	LP	12″
16-Feb	Prisoners	A Taste of Pink	LP	12″
16-Feb	Replacements	Pleased to Meet Me	LP	12″
16-Feb	Manual Scan	Self-Titled	EP	7″
16-Feb	Statics	Sold My Soul	Single	7″
17-Feb	Nikki & The Corvettes	Self-Titled	LP	12″
17-Feb	Statics	Japan Tour Single ’97	EP	7″
17-Feb	Senders	Do the Sender Thing	LP	12″
17-Feb	Dexter Romweber Duo	Is That You In The Blue?	LP	12″
17-Feb	Satan’s Pilgrims	The Rise and Fall of Flingel Bunt	Single	7″
17-Feb	B-Girls	Self-Titled	LP	12″
17-Feb	Rolling Stones	Between The Buttons	LP	12″
18-Feb	Who	A Quick One (Happy Jack) / Sell Out	LP	12″x2
19-Feb	Arthur Lee Maye & The Crowns	Do The Bop	Single	7″
19-Feb	Matchbox	Please Don’t Touch	Single	7″
19-Feb	Nathaniel Mayer	Ride In My 225	Single	7″
19-Feb	Nathaniel Mayer	I Don’t Need No Bald Headed Woman telling Me What To Do	Single	7″
19-Feb	Nathaniel Mayer	Village of Love	Single	7″
19-Feb	Sal Mayo	Hey Ba Ba Re Bop	Single	7″
19-Feb	MC5	Kick Out The Jams	Single	7″
19-Feb	Jimmy McCracklin	The Walk	Single	7″
19-Feb	Clyde McPhatter	Lover Please	Single	7″
19-Feb	Ben Vaughn	The World of Ben Vaughn	LP	12″
19-Feb	Dexter Romweber Duo	Images 13	LP	12″
19-Feb	Tav Falco’s Panther Burns	Blow Your Top	EP	12″
19-Feb	Bangles	All Over The Place	LP	12″
19-Feb	Thee Headcoats	Beach Bums Must Die	LP	12″
19-Feb	Charlie Feathers	Tip Top Daddy	LP	12″
20-Feb	Lenny Kaye with the Fleshtones	Lost of Xandu	Single	7″
20-Feb	Mickey Jupp	Don’t Talk To Me	Single	7″
20-Feb	Evil Eyes	Self-Titled	EP	7″
20-Feb	Ex Hex	Waterfall	EP	7″
20-Feb	Exploding White Mice	I Just Want My Fun	EP	7″
20-Feb	Fastbacks	Wrong Wrong Wrong	Single	7″
20-Feb	Fastbacks	All In Order	EP	7″
20-Feb	Fastbacks	The Answer is You	EP	7″x2
20-Feb	Fastbacks	Girls Eyes	Single	7″
20-Feb	Charlie Feathers	Dig Myself A Hole	Single	7″
20-Feb	Charlie Feathers	rain	Single	7″
20-Feb	Louis Jordan	Rock DOc	Single	7″
20-Feb	Junior varsity	Go To The Ice Cream Social	EP	7″
20-Feb	Vacant Lot	Shake Well	LP	12″
20-Feb	Buzzcocks	Time’s Up	LP	12″
20-Feb	Cramps	A Date with Elvis	LP	12″
20-Feb	Just water	Singing In The Rain	Single	7″
20-Feb	Kaisers	What You Gonna Do?	Single	7″
20-Feb	Gabriel kaplan	Up Your Nose	Single	7″
20-Feb	Lenny Kaye	Child Bride	Single	7″
20-Feb	Stiv Bators	LA LA	EP	10″
21-Feb	Jack Lords	Mother’s Rock	LP	12″
21-Feb	Wynonie Harris	Good Rockin’ Blues	LP	12″x2
21-Feb	Los Primos	Summertime Girls	Single	7″
21-Feb	Pinkz	USA	Single	7″
21-Feb	Gene Pitney	Town Without Pity	Single	7″
21-Feb	Plastic Bertrand	Ca Plan Por Mois	Single	7″
21-Feb	Saints	(I’m) Stranded	LP	12″
21-Feb	Music Machine	Best of the Music Machine	LP	12″
21-Feb	Mullens	Isabel	EP	7″
21-Feb	Ramones	Leave Home	LP	12″
21-Feb	Ramones	Pleasant dreams	LP	12″
22-Feb	Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers	Slow Down	LP	12″
22-Feb	Gino Washington & the Atlantics	Come Monkey with Gino Washington & Tha Atlantics	EP	7″
22-Feb	Watts 103rd street Rhythm Band	Bottomless	Single	7″
22-Feb	Watts 103rd street Rhythm Band	Spreadin’ Honey	Single	7″
22-Feb	MOTO	Masters of the Obvious	EP	7″
22-Feb	Lipstick Pickups	Better than You	Single	7″
22-Feb	Little Eva	Locomotion	Single	7″
22-Feb	Little Milton	Grits Ain’t Groceries	Single	7″
22-Feb	Little Milton	Who’s Cheatin’ Who	Single	7″
22-Feb	Little Willie John	All Around The World	Single	7″
22-Feb	Little Richard	Green Power	Single	7″
22-Feb	Little Richard	Crying in the Chapel	Single	7″
22-Feb	Little Richard	Shake A Hand (If You Can)	Single	7″
22-Feb	Little Wretch	Just About Due	Single	7″
22-Feb	O’Kaysions	Girl Watcher	LP	12″
22-Feb	Web Dating	Self-Titled	EP	7″
22-Feb	Mary Weiss	Don’t Come Back	Single	7″
22-Feb	Whiskey Daredevils	Don’t Talk To Connie	Single	7″
23-Feb	Dion & the Belmonts	No One KNows	Single	7″
23-Feb	Cramps	Off the Bone	LP	12″
23-Feb	Tony Joe White	My Kind of Woman	Single	7″
23-Feb	Lewie Wickham	Hippy Love Song	Single	7″
23-Feb	Jane Wiedlin	Blue Kiss	Single	7″
23-Feb	Downliners Sect	Showbiz	Single	7″
23-Feb	Downliners Sect	Night At Gt. Newport Street	EP	7″
23-Feb	Gorillas	She’s My Girl	Single	7″
23-Feb	Go To Blazes	Got It Made	EP	7″
23-Feb	Go To Blazes	(And I’ll be) Hating You	Single	7″
23-Feb	Ernie Graham	Romeo	Single	7″
23-Feb	Cramps	Smell of Female	EP	12″
23-Feb	Dion	Runaround Sue	Single	7″
23-Feb	Dirty Burds	Gotta Go	EP	7″
23-Feb	Dixie Cups	Chapel of Love	Single	7″
23-Feb	Doctor Explosion	I Try To Find	EP	7″
23-Feb	Downliners Sect	Brite Light – Big City	EP	7″
26-Feb	John Schooley & His One Man Band	Live on Australian Radio	EP	7″
26-Feb	Billy Lee Riley	Midnite Hour	Single	7″
26-Feb	Supersuckers	Born with a Tail	Single	7″
26-Feb	Johnny Thunders with the Chesterfield Kings	Critic’s Choice	EP	7″
26-Feb	Time Beings	Visions	Single	7″
26-Feb	Friggs	A Bad Word For A Good Thing	Single	7″
26-Feb	T. Tex Edwards & Lithium X-Mas	Live From A Dive	Single	7″
26-Feb	Holly & the Italians	Tell That Girl To shut Up	Single	7″
26-Feb	Invisible Men	Self-Titled	EP	7″
26-Feb	Bill Haley & The Comets	Rock Around the Clock	LP	12″
27-Feb	Eddie Cochran	Legendary Masters Series	LP	12″x2
27-Feb	New Salem Witch Hunters	She’s Got Wheels	Single	7″
27-Feb	Rattlers	On the Beach	Single	7″
27-Feb	Remains	Tell Me The Truth	Single	7″
27-Feb	Rezillos	Top of The Pops	Single	7″
27-Feb	Reds	Under Control	Single	7″
27-Feb	Labradors	Whne Someone Loves You	Single	7″
27-Feb	Humpers	Plastique Valentine	Single	7″
27-Feb	Kill-A-watts	Electrorock	LP	12″
27-Feb	Hellacopters	Dirty Women	Single	7″
27-Feb	Chubbies	I Love My Label	Single	7″
27-Feb	Chronics	First Time Best Time	Single	7″
27-Feb	Chesterfield Kings	Baby Doll	Single	7″
27-Feb	Cavegurls	Just Out Of Reach +3	EP	7″
27-Feb	Clash	Clash City Rockers	Single	7″
27-Feb	Clash	Gates of the West	Single	7″
27-Feb	Doctor Feelgood	Provate Practice	LP	12″
27-Feb	Wanda Jackson	Let’s Have A Party	LP	12″x2
28-Feb	Larry Williams	Short Fat fanny	Single	7″
28-Feb	Witch Doctors	Goin’ To A Graveyard	EP	7″
28-Feb	Mutettes	Leatherette Heart	Single	7″
28-Feb	Nervous Eaters	Loretta	Single	7″
28-Feb	Nervous Eaters	Just head	Single	7″
28-Feb	Count Five	Psychotic Reaction	Single	7″
28-Feb	Court Jesters	Roaches	Single	7″
28-Feb	Untamed Youth	Planet Mace	LP	12″
28-Feb	Don Covay	Pretty Boy Rock & Roll	EP	7″
28-Feb	Brood	Knock on My Door	Single	7″
28-Feb	Nomads	(I’m) Out of It	Single	7″
28-Feb	Paley Brothers	You’re the Best	Single	7″
28-Feb	Priscillas	All My Friends Are Zombies	Single	7″
28-Feb	Wreckless Eric	Haunted House	Single	7″
28-Feb	Larry Williams	Dizzy Miss Lizzy	Single	7″
29-Feb	Elvis	Burning Love	Single	7″
29-Feb	Elvis	Viva Las Vegas	Single	7″
29-Feb	Tony Stafford	Suspicion	Single	7″
29-Feb	Alvin Stardust	Angel from Hamburger Heaven	Single	7″
29-Feb	Fells	Fun Date	Single	7″
29-Feb	Fells	The Visitor	Single	7″
29-Feb	Fells	Space Girls	EP	7″
29-Feb	Clash	Self-Titled	LP	12″
29-Feb	Lazy Cowgirls	There’s A New Girl In Town	EP	7″x2
29-Feb	Lambrettas	Poison Ivy	Single	7″
29-Feb	Cynics	Learn To Lose	LP	12″
29-Feb	Sons of Hercules	Surfin’ In the Bars	Single	7″
29-Feb	Sorrows	Teenage Heartbreak	Single	7″
29-Feb	Red Sovine	The Thought of Losing You	Single	7″
29-Feb	Spastics	Cherry Pop	Single	7″
29-Feb	Chris Spedding	Motor Bikin’	Single	7″
29-Feb	Chris Spedding	Get Outta My Pagoda	Single	7″
29-Feb	Chris Spedding with the Vibrators	Pogo Dancing	Single	7″

For what it’s worth: I’m defining “record” as the whole package, a boxset or double LP or whatever is just considered one record. I’m defining a “listen” as one pull from the shelf, even if I play the record multiple times. I only count it a new listen if I reshelf it and then pull it again on a new day.

NIX COMICS FUNDRAISER

Last year I began what I’ve called the “Nix 2024 Fundraiser.” It’s basically just an attempt to divorce myself from the drama and expense of crowdfunding platforms; I’d rather go at my own pace, use my own voice, and not give a cut to corporations that are increasingly dubious in my eyes. I doubt I’ll get the same response as a Kickstarter campaign, but what the fuck do I have to lose by trying?

Part of my plan is to proceed in phases. Small goals that can be achieved with a fluid structure and limited individual stress. Phase One of my plan was to create a new website to run the sales part of the Fundraiser. It cost me $216.40 to set up nix2024.com, which I hoped to make back by selling art and discount back issues. It was my plan to get Phase One done by the end of January.

I suppose that part of the plan is more or less worked. I ran a 60% off back issues sale through the first part of the year. I made back $141.50 of my $216.40. Not ideal, but also not the end of the world.

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STUFF IN THE WORKS

2024 Subscription Drive:
Phase two of my plan is to open pre-orders for the 2024 Nix Comics publications. I don’t like launching such things until the books themselves are basically ready to go to print, which they aren’t. Watch for collected trade paperbacks of older Nix Comics Material as I retire the back issue catalog. Also watch for new zines like the Tales from the Crate record collecting zine and new issues of Out of Time and How to Collect Comics the Nix Way.

Phase three? That’ll be new full color collaborative comics. Knock on wood we get there this year!

Unexpectedly, I was hit with a Phase 2.a. The Herbert Cooper Gallery is a new non-profit art gallery here in Columbus, located at 74 Parsons Avenue. The Gallery has opened up a room full of local artist/vendors including Nix Comics. Right now on display are back issues, some of which are my final copies, part of my Sketchbook Picture Sleeves catalog, and various pieces of original art by myself and Nix Artists. My hope is this will help replace the gap left after closing up the What the Rock?! space a few years back. Grand opening is Saturday, February 3rd from noon to 8pm. The Reception for this quarter’s main attraction, Rob W. Jones is 6pm to 8pm, which is when you’ll likely catch me there!

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2023 WRAP UP

I didn’t forget! My tradition of sharing my annual Revenue and Expenses continues. I’ll say this though, it was another weird year. I spent half of it looking for a decent day job. (I ended up with a great one at Columbus State Community College in the grants department) That would ordinarily result in more comics, but I’ve also been dealing with some health stuff for over a year. Sciatica resulting from a bulging disc has left me in states ranging between mild distracting pain to bed ridden. I’m taking gabapentin for relief, which leaves me dopey and drowsy. The end result is that all I created and published last year were three of my Nix Singles poster Zines. I did manage to do three shows (SPACE, CXC, and the WFMU record fair) Basically, I ended up in the black, but revenue was mostly based on old stuff.

Revenue:
On-Line Sales	$667.25
Shipping Fees	$188.00
Event Sales	$999.50
Wholesale	$54.00
Total	$1,908.75
Expenses:
Records (tales from the Crate)	$141.97
Websites + Email	$468.56
Postage +Shipping Supplies	$179.90
Table Fees	$270.00
Art	$125.00
Printing	$141.81
Transaction Fees	$33.48
Loan Repayment	$225.00
Total	$1,585.72
Net	$323.03
Profit	20.37%

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RECORDS LISTENED TO JANUARY 2024:

I’m going to track and post the records I listen to every month. I did this a couple of years ago, and while I don’t know if anyone cares all that much, I think it gives a good overview of what I consider the soundtrack to Nix Comics.

Most of the record choices are random. I walk up to my collection and grab a record without looking too hard. For 45s, I’ll often grab a stack resulting in a run of a certain artist (Suzi Quatro this past month, for instance.) A couple of times I did deep dives: Listening to all of my Blasters records and all of my Norton records Rolling Stones-Covers Juke Box singles. I wish I could say that those deep dives resulted in deep thoughts, but honestly they just kinda elicited a “fuck yeah!” from my brain.

For what it’s worth: I’m defining “record” as the whole package, a boxset or double LP or whatever is just considered one record. I’m defining a “listen” as one pull from the shelf, even if I play the record multiple times. I only count it a new listen if I reshelf it and then pull it again on a new day. Dig? Cool.

Date	Artist	Title	Format	Size
1/1	Thee Mighty Caesars	The Ides of March	LP	12″
1/1	Flamin’ Groovies	Live At the Whiskey a-Go-Go ’79	LP	12″
1/1	Steve Earle and the Dukes	Exit 0	LP	12″
1/1	Ike and Tina Turner	Get It-Get It!	LP	12″
1/1	Milkshakes	Talkin’ ‘Bout	LP	12″
1/1	Various-Artists	Big Beat From Badsville Vol. 1	EP	10″x2
1/1	Vyvyan	Teenage wannabes	EP	10″
1/1	Dickies	Incredible shrinking Dickies	LP	12″
1/1	Long Ryders	State of Our Union	LP	12″
1/2	Freddy Fender	Best of Freddy Fender	LP	12″
1/2	Various-Artists	Hipsville 29 B.C.	LP	12″
1/2	Ventures	Walk Don’t Run	LP	12″
1/2	Gene Vincent	The Last Session	EP	12″
1/2	Gene Vincent	Gene Vincent 20 Greatest Hits	LP	12″
1/2	Bamboo Kids	Self-Titled	LP	12″
1/2	Major Lance	The Monkey Time	LP	12″
1/2	Jimmy Ruffin	Ruff ‘N Ready	LP	12″
1/2	Mono Men	Bent Pages	LP	12″
1/2	Satelliters	Shapes of Things	LP	12″
1/2	Cowboy Copas	Country Music Entertainer	LP	12″
1/2	Rolling Stones	England’s Newest hitmakers	LP	12″
1/2	Vacant Lot	Because They Can	LP	12″
1/3	El Dorados	Bim Bam Boom	LP	12″
1/3	Records	Music on Both sides	LP	12″
1/3	Ian Hunter	All of the Good Ones Are Taken	LP	12″
1/3	Lydia Loveless	Indestructible Machine	LP	12″
1/3	999	Concrete	LP	12″
1/3	Cowslingers	That’s Truck Driving	EP	10″
1/3	Nerves	25th Anniversary	EP	10″
1/3	Shonen Knife	Neon Zebra	Single	7″
1/3	DMZ	Self-Titled	LP	12″
1/3	Little Richard	King of Rock & Roll	LP	12″
1/3	Supercharger	Goes Way Out	LP	12″
1/4	Fleshtones with Lenny Kaye	Brooklyn Sound Solution	LP	12″
1/4	JoanJett & The Blackhearts	Album	LP	12″
1/4	Joe Tex	Sings with strings and Things	LP	12″
1/4	Rumour	Purity of essence	LP	12″
1/4	Mister T experience	Nightshift At the Thrill factory	LP	12″
1/4	Drags	Dragsploitation…Now	EP	10″
1/4	Blondie	Self-Titled	LP	12″
1/4	Rachel Sweet	Fools Good	Single	7″
1/4	Swindlers	You’re Drivin’ me Wild	Single	7″
1/4	Singing Blue Jeans	Hippy Hippy shake	Single	7″
1/4	Woggles	Return to Blood Beach	EP	7″
1/4	Rezillos	Can’t Stand the Rezillos	LP	12″
1/4	Syndicate of sound	Little Girl	LP	12″
1/5	Beat	Self-Titled	LP	12″
1/5	Thee Fine Lines	Self-Titled	LP	12″
1/5	Screaming Lord sutch	Story	LP	12″
1/5	Big Sandy & the Fly Rite Trio	On the Go!	LP	12″
1/5	Various-Artists	Groin Thunder	LP	12″x2
1/5	Los Lobos	By The Light of the Moon	LP	12″
1/5	Tom Petty & the Heart breakers	Change of heart	Single	7″
1/5	Phantom Rats	See You Tonight	EP	7″
1/5	Phantom Surfers	Orbitron	EP	7″
1/5	Willie Phoenix Tribute Machine	Hye Little Girl	Single	7″
1/5	Bobby “Boris” Pickett	Monster Mash	Single	7″
1/6	Fastbacks	Alone in a Furntiure Warehouse	EP	10″
1/6	Gentleman Jesse	Introducing gentleman Jesse	LP	12″
1/6	Bobby Fuller	Live!!!	LP	12″
1/8	Pandoras	Stop Ptetending	LP	12″
1/8	Various-Artists	2nd Belgian 6Ts Boom	LP	12″
1/8	Various-Artists	500 Miles to Glory	LP	12″
1/8	Tuff Darts	Self-Titled	LP	12″
1/8	Hank Ballard & The Midnighters	Self-Titled	LP	12″
1/8	Vibrators	Pure Mania	LP	12″
1/8	Bobby Womack	Fly me To the Moon	LP	12″
1/8	Fall Outs	Here I Come	LP	12″
1/8	Shorty Long	Here Comes the Judge	Single	7″
1/8	Loons	Paradise	Single	7″
1/8	Loose Lips	Two Time Loser	EP	7″
1/8	Cybermen	Self-Titled	EP	10″
1/9	Slow Poisoner	Self-Titled	EP	10″
1/9	Jerry Lee Lewis	Golden Rock Hits	LP	12″
1/9	Devo	Freedom of Choice	LP	12″
1/9	Gore Gore Girls	Up all Night	LP	12″
1/9	Moon Mullican	Seven Nights To Rock	LP	12″
1/9	Roger Miller	Dang Me	LP	12″
1/9	Vendettas	Halloween	EP	7″
1/9	Rocky Velvet	Too Much Fun	EP	7″
1/9	Otis Redding	My Lovers Prayer	Single	7″
1/9	Otis Redding	Papas Got A Brand New bag	Single	7″
1/9	Otis Redding	Hard to handle	Single	7″
1/9	Otis Redding	Happy song (Dum Dum)	Single	7″
1/9	Otis Redding	I Got Dreams to Remember	Single	7″
1/9	Otis Redding	Respect	Single	7″
1/9	Real Kids	Outta Place	LP	12″
1/9	Skid Roper	Lydias Cafe	LP	12″
1/9	Gene Vincent	I’m Back I’m Proud	LP	12″
1/10	Problem Hair	Slightly Floored	LP	12″
1/10	Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers	Live At the Lyceum Ballroom 1984	LP	12″
1/10	Crazy Cavan & The Rhythm Rockers	Red Hot Rockabilly: best of Crazy Cavan	LP	12″
1/10	Sons of Hercules	Hits For The Misses	LP	12″
1/10	Wanda Jackson	Heart Trouble	LP	12″
1/10	Ricky Nelson	Ricky	LP	12″
1/10	Jimmy Gray & the Missels	Two Timer	Single	7″
1/10	Al Green	Still In Love With You	EP	7″
1/10	Al Green	Tired of Being Alone	Single	7″
1/11	Suzi Quatro	Devil Gate Drive	Single	7″
1/11	Suzi Quatro	Roxy Roller	Single	7″
1/11	Griefs	Whenever You’re Around	Single	7″
1/11	Grodes	The Tongues of Truth/Manny Freiser Of The Grodes – Let’s Talk About Girls! / Love Me Baby	Single	7″
1/11	Surf Trio	Steamer	Single	7″
1/11	Swamps	Rockin’ Show Must Die	Single	7″
1/11	Sweet	Fever of Love	Single	7″
1/11	Sweet	Funny Funny	Single	7″
1/11	Suzi Quatro	Your Mama Won’t Like Me	Single	7″
1/11	Suzi Quatro	Daytona Demon	Single	7″
1/11	Suzi Quatro	Too Big	Single	7″
1/11	Suzi Quatro	Can the Can	Single	7″
1/11	Suzi Quatro	Tear Me Apart	Single	7″
1/12	Flestones	Vs. Reality	LP	12″
1/12	Various-Artists	Japanese Sound	LP	12″
1/12	Impala	Square Jungle	LP	12″
1/12	Joe King Carrasco & the crowns	Synapse Gap (Mundo Total)	LP	12″
1/12	Amy Rigby	Diary of A Mod Housewife	LP	12″
1/12	Thee Mighty Caesars	John Lennon’s Corpse Revisited	LP	12″
1/12	Plimsouls	Self-Titled	LP	12″
1/13	Various-Artists	Jump and Shout	LP	12″
1/13	Deke Dickerson & the Eccophonics	More Million Sellers	LP	12″
1/14	Joe Ely	Musta Notta Gotta Lotta	LP	12″
1/15	Seeds	Future	LP	12″
1/16	Joe Tex	A Sweet Woman Like You	Single	7″
1/16	Hollywood Flames	Buzz Buzz Buzz	Single	7″
1/16	Conway Twitty	It’s Only Make Believe	Single	7″
1/16	Bunny Sigler	Let The Good Times roll and Feel So Good	Single	7″
1/16	Staple Singers	This Land	Single	7″
1/16	Claudine Clark	Party Lights	Single	7″
1/16	Mickey Murray	Lonely Room	Single	7″
1/16	Corsairs	smoky Places	Single	7″
1/16	Major Lance	The Monkey Time	Single	7″
1/16	Roy Head	Treat her Right	Single	7″
1/16	Mirettes	Ain’t My Stuff Good Enough	Single	7″
1/16	Marv Johnson	I Need You	Single	7″
1/16	Hank Ballard & The Midnighters	Finger Poppin’ Time	Single	7″
1/16	Bobby Darin	Splish Splash	Single	7″
1/16	Everly Brothers	Claudette	Single	7″
1/16	Tony Joe White	Polk Salad Annie	Single	7″
1/16	Hexers	Werewolf By Night	EP	7″
1/16	Tom Petty & the Heart breakers	Hypnotic Eye	LP	12″
1/16	Carl smith	The way I Lose My Mind	LP	12″
1/16	Deke Dickerson & the Trashmen	Self-Titled	LP	12″
1/17	Safety Last	Struck By Love	LP	12″
1/17	Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros	Streetcore	LP	12″
1/17	MOTO	Raw Power	LP	12″
1/17	Nick Lowe	Party of One	LP	12″
1/17	X	Under the Big Black Sun	LP	12″
1/17	Blasters	Trouble Bound	EP	10″
1/18	Blasters	Nonfiction	LP	12″
1/18	Blasters	Hard Line	LP	12″
1/18	Blasters	Self-Titled	LP	12″
1/18	Conquerors	Turn on Tune In Drop Dead	EP	10″
1/18	Blasters	Over There	EP	12″
1/18	Blasters	American Music	LP	12″x2
1/19	Split	Royal Pendeltons: Tell Me/Bo-Keys: Congratulations	Single	7″
1/19	Split	Bloodshot Bill: High and Dry/Rockin’ Enocky: Mother’s Little Helper	Single	7″
1/19	Split	Real Kids: Tell Me/Janet St. Clair: Out of Time	Single	7″
1/19	Split	Dirtbombs: No Expectations/Love Supremes: Sing This song Together	Single	7″
1/19	Split	5.6.7.8.s: 19th Nervous Breakdown/Church Keys: Who’s Driving Your Plane?	Single	7″
1/19	Split	Reigning Sound: I’d Much rather Be With The Boys/Hentchmen: Surprise Surprise	Single	7″
1/19	Split	Dex Romweber Duo: Heart of stone/Question Mark and the Mysterians: Empty Heart	Single	7″
1/19	Split	Stalkers: Take It or Leave It/Alarm Clocks: Last Time	Single	7″
1/19	Split	Flakes: Stupid Girl/King Khan and BBQ Show: Flight 505	Single	7″
1/19	Split	Little Killers: Think/Dartford Renegades: Off The Hook	Single	7″
1/19	Split	Knaughty Knights: Connection/Wildebeests: Please Go Home	Single	7″
1/19	Lyres	Now I Have A Witness	Single	7″
1/19	Split	Swinging Neck Breakers: It’s Not Easy/Shanks: DOncha Bother Me	Single	7″
1/19	Split	Mad Shadows: Child of the Moon/Queensbury Terrors: Citadel	Single	7″
1/19	Split	Shams: Under My thumb/Greenhornes: Sad Day	Single	7″
1/19	Split	A-Bones: Miss Amanda Jones/Rotting Stumps: My Obsession	Single	7″
1/19	Split	Black Lips: What to Do/Demon’s Claws: Factory Girl	Single	7″
1/19	Split	Andre Williams & the A-Bones/The SPider and the Fly/Greasy Chickens: Andre’s Blues	Single	7″
1/19	Split	Sky Saxon and the Seeds: Its The Singer Not the Song/Lairds: Something happened To Me Yesterday	Single	7″
1/19	Suzy And Los Quatro	Ready To Go	LP	12″
1/19	Johnny Burnette	Wampus Cat [Rock And Roll Demos Volume 2]	LP	12″
1/20	Buck Owens	Hot Dog	Single	7″
1/20	Royaltones	Wail	Single	7″
1/20	Eyeliners	Rock ‘n’ Roll Baby	Single	7″
1/20	Muffs	Whoop De Doo	LP	12″
1/22	Mullens	Go Where The Action Is	LP	12″
1/22	Ends	Concrete Didsapointment	LP	12″
1/22	Wanda Jackson	Reckless Love Affair	LP	12″
1/22	Viceroys	Back in the U.S.A.	EP	12″
1/22	Slade	Stomp Your Hands Clap Your Feet	LP	12″
1/22	End of the Beginning	Into My Mind	Single	7″
1/22	English Beat	Can’t Get Used To Losing You	Single	7″
1/22	Estrella 20/20	Brown Queenie Yeh Yeh	EP	7″
1/22	Eurythmics	Would I Lie To You	Single	7″
1/22	Esquerita	Dew Drop Inn	Single	7″
1/22	Standells	Try It	LP	12″
1/23	Phil Seymour	Surrender	Single	7″
1/23	Shadows of Knight	Gloria	Single	7″
1/23	Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet	Change of Heart	Single	7″
1/23	Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet	Music for Pets	EP	7″
1/23	Shakin’ Pyramids	4 Track EP	EP	7″
1/23	Shambles	Innocence Becomes You	Single	7″
1/23	Shambles	Fire	EP	7″
1/23	Shambles	Original Tangent EP	EP	7″
1/23	Shoes	Tongue Twister	LP	12″
1/23	Bob Kuban & the Inmen	Look Out For The Cheater	LP	12″
1/23	Junior Varsity	Bam Bam Bam	EP	12″
1/23	Fevers	Love Always Wins	LP	12″
1/23	Johnny Cash	One Piece At A Time	LP	12″
1/23	Faron Young	This is Faron	LP	12″
1/23	Link Wray	Missing Links Volume 4: Streets of Chicago	LP	12″
1/24	Brood	But Your Gone	Single	7″
1/24	Brood	Knock on My Door	Single	7″
1/24	Brood	Since He’s Been Gone	Single	7″
1/24	Junior Brown	Venom Wearin’ Denim	Single	7″
1/24	Oscar Brown Jr.	Lone Ranger	Single	7″
1/24	Bubblegum Crash	Self-Titled	EP	7″
1/24	Buggles	Video Killed the Radio Star	Single	7″
1/24	Gore Gore Girls	Up all Night	LP	12″
1/24	Kid Congo Powers & The Pink Monkey Birds	Conjure Man	Single	7″
1/24	Pretenders	My Baby	EP	7″x2
1/24	Pretenders	Thin Line Between Love and Hate	Single	7″
1/24	Pretenders	Middle of the road	Single	7″
1/24	Pretty Things	Rosalyn	EP	7″
1/25	Split	Fleshtones: Gotta Get Away / Los Straitjackets: 2000 Light Years From Home	Single	7″
1/25	Split	Miriam: Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind / The Sam Elwitt Orchestra: In Another Land	Single	7″
1/25	Split	King Khan & His Wild Dogs Of Kentucky: The Arkaics: I’m Free	Single	7″
1/25	Split	Guitar Lightnin’ Lee & His Thunder Band: Little By Little / Homer Henderson: Grown Up Wrong	Single	7″
1/25	Split	Mark Sultan: Dandelion / Broadway Lafayette: Backstreet Girl	Single	7″
1/25	Split	Barrence Whitfield & The Savages: One More Try / The Stompin’ Riff Raffs: What A Shame	Single	7″
1/25	Split	La La Brooks: Play With Fire / The Piggies: Parachute Woman	Single	7″
1/25	Split	Dave “Baby” Cortez With Lonnie Youngblood & His Bloodhounds: Jumpin’ Jack Flash / Lonnie Youngblood & His Bloodhounds: Monkey Man	Single	7″
1/25	Split	The Tandoori Knights: Gomper / The Wrecked Angles: 2120 South Michigan Avenue	Single	7″
1/25	Pretty Things	Buzz The Jerk	EP	7″
1/25	Fish Karma	Hellhound on My Leg	EP	7″
1/25	Flakes	Bad Girl	Single	7″
1/25	Flakes	Bip Bam Boom	Single	7″
1/25	Flat Duo Jets	Dex Romweber And Simon Chardiet Two Great Guitars	Single	7″
1/25	Flamin’ Groovies	Something else	Single	7″
1/25	Flatt & Scruggs	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs: Columbia Hall of Fame Series	EP	7″
1/25	Eddie Floyd	I’ve Never Found A Girl (To Love Me Like You Do	Single	7″
1/25	Fleshtones	I can’t Hide	Single	7″
1/25	Fleshtones	Girl From Baltimore	Single	7″
1/25	Esquerita	Hittin’ on Nothing	Single	7″
1/25	Mick Collins & Danny Kroha	Winter Blues and Greens	EP	7″x2
1/25	Archie & the Bunkers	The Traveler	Single	7″
1/25	Split	Roy Orbison: Domonio / Gene Ross: Everybody Is Trying To Kiss My Baby	Single	7″
1/25	A-Bones	Shallow Grave	Single	7″
1/25	Big Star	September Gurls	Single	7″
1/25	Pretty Things	All Light Up	Single	7″
1/25	Saints	Eternally Yours	LP	12″
1/26	Rufus Thomas	Walking The dog	LP	12″
1/26	Split	Carl Perkins: Put Your Cat Clothes On/Warren Smith: Stop The World	Single	7″
1/26	Gene Maltais & The Gibson String Band	Gangwar	Single	7″
1/26	Various-Artists	Giant Gila Monster Volume 1	EP	7″
1/26	Jerry McCain & the Upstarts	Cutie Named Judy	Single	7″
1/26	Various-Artists	Party Date: Frantic Dallas Rockers	EP	7″
1/26	Shadows	Self-Titled	LP	12″
1/26	Rubinoos	Back To The Drawing Board	LP	12″
1/26	Lazy Cowgirls	Ragged Soul	LP	12″
1/27	Cub Koda	That’s What I Like About The South	LP	12″
1/27	Alice Cooper	Killer	LP	12″
1/27	Untamed Youth	Youth Runs wild	LP	12″
1/29	BR5-49	Little Ramona’s Gone Hillbilly Nuts	Single	7″
1/29	Brains	Money Changes Everything	Single	7″
1/29	Breakdowns	This Gun Don’t Care Who It shoots	Single	7″
1/29	Billy Bremner	Loud Music In Cars	Single	7″
1/29	Brides	Bad Attitude	Single	7″
1/29	Brides	Pushed Around	Single	7″
1/29	Briefs	Gary Glitter’s Eyes	Single	7″
1/29	Tommy James & the Shondells	Hanky Panky	Single	7″
1/29	Jan & Dean	Dead Man’s Curve	Single	7″
1/29	Jay & the Techniques	Stronger than Dirt	Single	7″
1/29	Jaynettes	Sally Go Round The Roses	Single	7″
1/29	Cramps	Stay Sick!	LP	12″
1/29	Dave Dee, Dozy Mick & Tich	Greatest Hits	LP	12″
1/31	Alex Chilton	Live on Beale Street	LP	12″
1/31	Split	Thee Headcoatees: Johnny Jack/Thee Headcoats: Sufference Wharf	Single	7″
1/31	Chuck Berry	Too Much Monkey Business	Single	7″
1/31	Blondie	The Tide is High	Single	7″
1/31	Elvis Costello	This Year’s Girl	Single	7″
1/31	Cheap Trick	Voices	Single	7″
1/31	Castaways	Liar Liar	Single	7″
1/31	Billy Bland	Hey Little Girl Dance	Single	7″
1/31	Joan Jett & the Blackhearts	Road Runner (Cleveland)	Single	7″
1/31	Split	Patsys Have You Got Soul?/Magic City: Teenage Electricity	Single	7″
1/31	Jekylls	The Good Is Over	Single	7″
1/31	Waylon Jennings	She’s A Good Hearted Woman In Love With A Good timing Man	Single	7″
1/31	Jet Boys	Self-Titled	EP	7″
1/31	Joan Jett & the Blackhearts	I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll	Single	7″
1/31	Joan Jett & the Blackhearts	Light of Day	Single	7″
1/31	Ding Dongs	Self-Titled	LP	12″
1/31	Knickerbockers	Jerk and Twine Time	LP	12″
1/31	Roy Loney & the Phantom MOvers	Out After Dark	LP	12″
1/31	Fastbacks	Zucker	LP	12″
1/31	Joneses	Keeping Up With The Joneses	LP	12″
1/31	Pagans	Buried Alive	LP	12″

The Nix Comics Fundraiser is on pause for the month of March. Follow Nix Comics on social media or sign up for our mail list for updates!

Here ’tis… That annual post that about 10 or so people eagerly await: The Nix Comics Revenue and Expenses Confession… er… Report. This year, like last, I’m finishing up in the black. Also like last year, this was out of necessity, as I’ve been in a continued state of semi-employment, despite finally getting a B.A. in Public Policy, Management, and Leadership. (I honestly thought I’d be gainfully employed by this time and back to throwing money at projects with no regard for their money making potential.)

That’s the good news, and I’m not complaining. In last year’s report I didn’t list personal expenses as a line item, because, well all of the money I made making comics went to personal expenses. I was pretty much at a zero balance. The net of $447.35 for 2022 is actual money waiting on 2023 projects. (And of course, knock on wood, barring any sudden personal expenses.) That’s pretty cool! Thanks to everyone who has supported me!

A Little more detail on the revenue:

On-Line sales: I performed an experimental divestment from crowdfunding platforms in 2022. In particular, there are aspects of Kickstarter that I’ve never particularly liked: The whole “Got A Long Way To Go and a Short Time To Get There” model of funding is an emotional rollercoaster that I can do without, I don’t like the formatting constraints of a Kickstarter campaign, and I don’t like the potential for guilt by association with anti-union actions or block-chain use. This meant trying to drive more traffic directly to my website, particularly when doing pre-orders for Tales from the Crate #7 and Sketchbook Picture Sleeves Volume 2.

In the end, the results were pretty much what you’d expect. I made less money. My feelings about the brand and process aside, its what people seem to be programmed for. (And, well, the algorithms of the various social media giants. Yes, they probably tamp down crowdfunding requests, but it seems more they tamp down on individuals asking for pre-orders even more.)

Grant: Long Story Short: I opened up the year with what I thought was a great idea for a combination self-promotion/ICARP project. The Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC) agreed and gave me a grant to pay for it! The United States Postal Service decided and to dispose of my art in an undisclosed manner. (Thanks to GCAC for letting me repurpose the funds for printing other projects!)

Events: While I didn’t actively “divest” from doing comic shows, I did actively only do comics-related events that had zero buy-in. (That ended up being SPACE, where I worked off my table table fee for Bob Corby, and my own release party graciously hosted by the Bookspace. It meant no CXC for the first time in the history of the “big indie” Columbus show, which I kind of missed, although as it turns out, a sciatica attack probably would’ve impaired my ability to table anyway.

I did make something of a return to non-conventional marketplace type events and did pretty well. Expect more of me at community arts events and record swaps in the coming years. They tend to be a little hit or miss for a random comics guy, but honestly, the high end is better than any comics show. (Both for sales and those intangible type things like “community building.”)

Consignment: I opened up the year selling some comics for a friend on eBay. This number is my net commission after pay-out, fees, and shipping to avoid it looking like I had massive expenses and sales in this report. The interesting part of doing this work was that it reminded that I essentially started Nix Comics with a massive eBay sale. I find myself wondering if I could replicate that in 2023 somehow to refill my coffers and return to some of the rewarding but expensive collaborative work that I love.

Commissioned Art: Hey! I did album art this year! Scratch that off of the bucket list! I also did my first ever Sketchbook Picture Sleeve commission and a pet(s) portrait. Didn’t think I’d ever do the latter.

Wholesale: I’ve pretty much packed t in when it comes to wholesale. I sell stuff to Lost Weekend, Laughing Ogre and the Wexner Center Gift Shop because I want to be part of the community and enjoy my partnership with those businesses, but honestly putting books in stores is a lot of work for very little reward.

In the context of the survey connected to my “Meet Your Neighborhood Comic Artist” project, one of my neighbors asked:

“Are more Nix forthcoming?”

Hey Neighbor!*

Yep! I just released a very limited edition zine and record set featuring the record that I did art for: the Zack Static Sect’s “Down At Slim’s” single. In the zine I talk about meeting Zack on-line and the process we went through getting his art done for his 7” and forthcoming LP.  As of this writing there are only 5 copies of it left.  $10 plus shipping. Not available in any stores, only on the Nix Comics home page.

 

I have two more Nix publications featuring my own writing and artwork basically in the can:  a second volume of my collected Sketchbook Picture Sleeves and a seventh (!) issue of my record collecting zine. Tales from the Crate.

As of this writing I’m still looking at printer quotes to decide how to price these two books. Once I have that nailed down I’ll do some sort of pre-order sale. (Kinda down on Kickstarter these days, so it will likely be through this website.)

It’s my hope that I’ll have them ready by August 5th for my pop-up event at Blockfort in downtown Columbus. Basically, I’ll be setting up all of the pic sleeves I’ve been creating for the past 5 years (Or at least the remaining ones after the book pre-sale!) The plan is to spin the records in the back room while the art is on display. Blockfort has it listed as a “DJ event” but I prefer to think of it more as a record party!

That pop-up event is actually the opening night for a month long exhibit by three other terrific artist who also do “graphic narrative.”  It’s titled “The Self is the Story” and the featured artists are M.S. Harkness, Mariana Weflen, and Gloria Shows. I’m super honored to be included in their opening night. I hope a lot of people come out!

Thanks for taking the survey!

Best!

Ken

*=neighbor identity kept private, cuz that’s what I promised to everybody who took the survey!