I drew this cartoonish flyer for a lecture/dem that Bill Irwin gave at Oberlin College, back in 1973 or so.   It was so long ago that it was printed in purple ink on a mimeo machine.  We later went on to more substantial collaborations.

In 1981 and 1982, choreographer Helen Dannenberg organized a sort of open mike night for dancers and performers in San Francisco.  She asked me to come up with the flyers.  Here are four of them.

A thoughtful round on life’s eternal verities.

“All Aboard for Mars” is a cartoon slide show using all of my characters from “Doug and Mike’s Adult Entertainment.”  I’d grown quite familiar with them; and wondered what they would be like in another setting, without Mike’s characters.  I sketched the whole business with pencil and markers, rather than my usual ink, and performed it on R. Sikoryak’s long-running series “Carousel.”  The acting class went on an expedition to Mars, where they were captured by Martians and forced to put on a talent show.  Doug’s nephew Kevin won handily, and was crowned king.   Here’s the exciting scene where they almost crash into an asteroid.

Eddie Gray, my ventriloquial sidekick, became a detective in this skit, which we performed at various downtown spaces in the ’80s.  Jay Geary played Sergeant Groggins, and I portrayed Eddie’s assistant, thus giving Eddie two clueless adults to deal with.

Some evocative pictures of Doug and Eddie, in this proof sheet by Laurie Simmons.