6-Up, from the Dawn of Don

Un-Comics #001

Well, damn. No Logo. Un-Logo?
We'll have to fix that.

Anyway...   What's Un-Comics?

That's whay we'll be calling comics that don't appear in comic books. Comics found in other locations, magazines, books, training manuals, etc.,.  You never know what little oddities and gems are hiding outside the marked territory of comics. They're usually fairly short affairs, so when possible the complete story will run here.

Today's tale is a 6-pager from Don Lomax who, a decade later, would bring us his awesome Vietnam Journal. His wikipedia entry says his first professional comics work was in 1979 (Atilla the Frog, Heavy Metal magazine). This tale appeared a year before that in an odd little genre magazine called Space Trek Special 1978. (This was a mash-up title from back when people still remembered that Space: 1999 was a thing)

I had only just discovered 2000AD shortly before that time (we had a pretty damn good comic shop in town) and reading this gave me the feeling of what 2000AD might be like if it was published in San Francisco (home of the Underground Comix).

Here's Don Lomax's Gin Ridge Encounter:

For bonus fun, the story ran immediately following this full page ad:

page art by Don Lomax from Space Trek Special (1978)