Information Request: Tom King's SNOOKUMS, THAT LOVEABLE TRANSVESTITE
S. Frug
52-53, the comic in the lower left-hand corner of the pyramid (tag
#79) is "Tom King, SNOOKUMS THAT LOVABLE TRANSVESTITE, which is
described as a photo-comic. Does anyone know what this is -- for
instance, where, when and by whom it was published? Was it an
individual issue, collected in an anthology or a book unto itself?
And so forth.
Please email me the information if you have it; I will then post a
follow-up to this message. (As I understand the net ettiquette.)
Thank you very much!
SF
Tim Serpas
[posted and mailed]
S. Frug <se...@cornell.edu> wrote:
>In Scott McCloud's UNDERSTANDING COMICS, on the big chart on pages
>52-53, the comic in the lower left-hand corner of the pyramid (tag
>#79) is "Tom King, SNOOKUMS THAT LOVABLE TRANSVESTITE, which is
>described as a photo-comic. Does anyone know what this is -- for
>instance, where, when and by whom it was published? Was it an
>individual issue, collected in an anthology or a book unto itself?
>And so forth.
"Snookums" was a side trip he took away from his usual strip
"The Magician", a sort of slice-of-life college student strip.
This ran in The Daily Texan in the early '90s; I believe it
started in 1989, the year before I started at UT. "Snookums"
ran after a previous photo experiment where the main character
from "The Magician" "quit" and went back to the real world.
At some point, he rattled off the stats on how many pictures
he had to take for a week's worth of strips, how long it took
to shoot, and how many times he (as the model for the character)
got shoved into a hedge for one particular frame. :)
At the same time that King was in the Texan, Chris Ware's early
"Acme Novelty Library" was appearing in the Texan's weekly pull-
out section, Xeric Grant winner Walt Holcombe had a daily strip
and some guy named Robert Rodrigez had a daily strip called
"Los Hooligans".
A lot of these guys had some collections that were sold at local
comic shops, but I didn't pick them up since I had been clipping
out the originals as they came out. Can't really say what was
in those books, though. I'll dip into my archives and see if I
can find some dates.
With any luck some of the folks from The Austin Chronicle that
I've seen post around these parts might just chime in with some
more info.
Thanks for asking your questions. This just adds to the joy
I felt when I saw Snookums in Understanding Comics.
Peace, Love and Artichokes.
Tim Serpas
BS Physics, UT 1994
A Word To The Mute Guy
>S. Frug <se...@cornell.edu> wrote:
>>In Scott McCloud's UNDERSTANDING COMICS, on the big chart on pages
>>52-53, the comic in the lower left-hand corner of the pyramid (tag
>>#79) is "Tom King, SNOOKUMS THAT LOVABLE TRANSVESTITE, which is
>>described as a photo-comic. Does anyone know what this is -- for
>>instance, where, when and by whom it was published? Was it an
>>individual issue, collected in an anthology or a book unto itself?
>>And so forth.
>"Snookums" was a side trip he took away from his usual strip
>"The Magician", a sort of slice-of-life college student strip.
>This ran in The Daily Texan in the early '90s; I believe it
>started in 1989, the year before I started at UT.
He had some photo strip in the first King/Holcombe comic,
PAL-YAT-CHEE - was this a Snookums collection, Snookums original, or
something else altogether?
-Chris
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Tim Serpas
>>"The Magician", a sort of slice-of-life college student strip.
>>This ran in The Daily Texan in the early '90s; I believe it
>>started in 1989, the year before I started at UT.
A Word To The Mute Guy <mu...@tpg.com.au> wrote:
> He had some photo strip in the first King/Holcombe comic,
>PAL-YAT-CHEE - was this a Snookums collection, Snookums original, or
>something else altogether?
Okay, neither my Texan strips nor PAL-YAT-CHEE was where I
thought it was, but my intuitive filing system ("I think I
keep that near that other stuff") wasn't too far off. The
strips in PAL-YAT-CHEE (Summer 1993) were in fact the same
ones that appeared in the Texan. The actual strips aren't
dated, but counting the number of strips that appeared be-
fore SNOOKUMS, it looks to have originally run for two weeks
in September/October 1991. The other photo strips were from
a year before.