These beautiful covers by Ed Watson come from a title most never encountered. California Comics is another of those books published by a comic shop with limited distribution. These came from Bob Sidebottom's shop in San Jose which, i believe, was also named California Comics. He also published Barbarian Comics and Barbarian Women Comics. Ed did some pin-up work for them as well, some of which appeared in that same post linked above.
The subject featured on the two covers above is the wizard Love Tree, who also starred in strips by Ed in all 3 issues of California Comics. I'll bet you can guess where this is leading, hm?
To this week's edition of
Meet Love Tree in the full post in our Back Room.
While Ed Watson also provided the painted cover to the 3rd issue, it didn't feature Love Tree.
It was Pure California -
There is an Ed Watson doing comic artwork these days, but i get the impression that he's too young to be the same Ed Watson.
artwork by Ed Watson for California Comics #s 1-3 (1974, 1975, 1977)
