Here's the cover for the first issue of the collected Fred Fortune comic from way back in the summer of 1994. Back then color printing was way beyond the means of most self-publishers, so the next best thing was to photocopy your 'zine in B+W with covers on color paper. These days everything's much better of course, the only limits being the imagination of the creator, but I still have a fondness for the raw, punky, cut and paste feel of the old stuff. Lots of my favorite titles and creators are rough around the edges. This outing was A5 size and 20 pages. The 'stories' included the first few Fred one pager gag strips and the first part of a dystopian sci-fi strip entitled 'The Garbage Man' about dumping rubbish in the future and the end of the world (cheery story, that)! Two more issues and a one-shot followed cataloging most of Fred's early misadventures- there's still a few that have yet to see the light of day- and sold mostly through the classified ads in the back of 'Comics International'.
Poverty Press... coming back after all these years.
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