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What is this thing called Plogg?

A fan of the Marvel and DC comics of the '60s and '70s, I've been drawing my own comics since I was in diapers, so I've amassed more material than you, a sane member of society, would ever want to read; regardless, more absurd comics will soon be coming your way in the mysterious dimension known as cyberspace.

PLOGG is also a small press comic, made of actual paper, of which there have been 5 issues so far. Copies are still available. They're 8 1/2" x 11", b&w, and loaded with laffs! Some of the comics and images on this site have appeared in past issues of PLOGG, but a computer screen doesn't do the artwork any justice, so, if you like what you see here, I recommend getting the much superior paper version from the address below.

plogg 1 cover
plogg 2 cover
No. 1 (August 1994) featuring May the Hyperborean in her first comic book story, ingeniously titled "May". (20 pgs.) No longer available in Upper Canada, Lower Canada, or Rupert's Land. No. 2 (October 1997) featuring Sarva in her first comic book story, "The Insult That Made a Killer Out of Sarva", which was erialized in a professional magazine in the States a few months later -- and then cancelled when they came to their senses! (24 pgs.) No longer available, except to lonely Voyageurs.

No.3 (October 1998) Featuring Sarva in "The Dude"; "Horror At Pinocchio's House"; Steve Gerber bio, Part 1; Supermangle, and other junk. (24 pgs.) $4.00 (Canadian or American, I don't care); price includes postage. No.4 (November 2001) Featuring Sarva in "Funk Rage" (a parody of Luke Cage); plus much, much less! (20 pgs.) $4.00 (loonies, toonies or presidents -- what do I care?); price includes postage.

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No.5 (May 2007) NEW! Sarva returns in "The Usual Gang of Idiots!" Plus more stuff above and beyond the call of insanity! (24 pgs.) $5.00 (I don't care if your coin is stamped with a beaver or an eagle -- just send it in); price includes postage.

I just got off the phone with the guys at DC comics
and they said it's okay if you want to buy an issue of Plogg
this month instead of Batman, so you can contact me at

plogg2 (@hotmail.com)

(Go ahead -- be a sucker! Buy a copy of Plogg
even though most of the material is available for free
on this website.)

Here's a list of comic book artists and writers whose work I've enjoyed and who have been an influence on me in some capacity:

RICHARD CORBEN, STEVE GERBER (despite being dead, he occasionally updates his blog), STAN LEE, JACK KIRBY (Lee and Kirby will always be the greatest), JIM STERANKO (the escape artist who disappeared from comics), BARRY SMITH (his early work -- before he started communicating with the spirit world), BERNIE WRIGHTSON, PHILIPPE DRUILLET, PAUL GULACY (a big influence in the mid-1970s), HARVEY KURTZMAN (Hey Look!, Mad), WILL ELDER (Mad), BILLY GRAHAM (Luke Cage, Black Panther -- not the televangelist), MARIE SEVERIN, BASIL WOLVERTON, HAROLD GRAY, the guys at ARCHIE COMICS (my favourite is Harry Lucey, but a lot of them were excellent sequential artists who could tell a clear story in five pages without the use of captions), FRANK FRAZETTA, ROBERT CRUMB, WINSOR McCAY, MIKE PLOOG, WILL EISNER, ROY KRENKEL and STEVE DITKO (on Spider-Man and Dr. Strange -- his inter-dimensional vistas were the wildest!)

More influences: ROBERT E. HOWARD, James Joyce, Edgar Allen Poe, Lewis Carroll, Gustave Flaubert, and countless others.

Other sites of interest (or not) that I'm irresponsible for:

THE GERBER CURSE, in which Steve Gerber practically tells his own story from beyond the grave. (Scared?)

JUNGLE FROLICS, in which random...stuff...I don't know. There's no rhyme or reason -- or even much content.

This just in: Check out my other site, THE COMPLEAT COSMO, for lots of violent adventures of an old anti-hero of mine. There's almost a possibility that you won't regret it!


No. 1 (August 1994) featuring May the Hyperborean in her first comic book story, ingeniously titled "May". (20 pgs.) No longer available in Upper Canada, Lower Canada, or Rupert's Land.	No. 2 (October 1997) featuring Sarva in her first comic book story, "The Insult That Made a Killer Out of Sarva", which was erialized in a professional magazine in the States a few months later -- and then cancelled when they came to their senses! (24 pgs.) No longer available, except to lonely Voyageurs.

No.3 (October 1998) Featuring Sarva in "The Dude"; "Horror At Pinocchio's House"; Steve Gerber bio, Part 1; Supermangle, and other junk. (24 pgs.) $4.00 (Canadian or American, I don't care); price includes postage.	No.4 (November 2001) Featuring Sarva in "Funk Rage" (a parody of Luke Cage); plus much, much less! (20 pgs.) $4.00 (loonies, toonies or presidents -- what do I care?); price includes postage.

No.5 (May 2007) NEW! Sarva returns in "The Usual Gang of Idiots!" Plus more stuff above and beyond the call of insanity! (24 pgs.) $5.00 (I don't care if your coin is stamped with a beaver or an eagle -- just send it in); price includes postage.