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via M.A.D. Rants by noreply@blogger.com (MAD) on 6/26/08
Ray Tomczak is rather dedicated. There is a long list of websites in which his comics appear, on drunk duck, comic space, smackjeeves, webcomicsnation and wasted-potentialcomics.blogspot.com. That is only one of his blogs. He has several. A more complete list of his links are located on his blog.The first comic I have here from Ray is Fit 2 Print. This is a mini which looks like it may have been printed 2 up on an 8.5x11 sheet and then cut in half. It is a collection of the Wasted Potential comic strips that appeared in Columbus, Ohio newspapers, "The Atomic Tomorrow" and Columbus Alive in 2005-2006, along with the reprinted Pop Darts strips from "The Atomic Tomorrow" and bios of Wasted Potential's main characters.
The back of this comic contains a little bio on Ray himself. It talks about how he majored in Communications at Clarion University of Pennsylvania and produced the comic Norm's Dorm for their student newspaper, The Clarion Call. He revived the lead characters of Norm's Dorm into a new strip called Wasted Potential which has appeared in Oh! Comics; Rap Sheet, the Official Newsletter of the Small Press Syndicate and of course the newspapers I mentioned above.
I also found Ray listed in the Denver Zine Library, so I don't know how much of a minor favor sending his books out might be in this case. But hey, at least that is another zine library to send books to. The list that I am using for sending these out is here: www.zinebook.com/resource/libes.html
Before I get too sidetracked, I'm going back to this review. Fit 2 Print contains newspaper strip style comics, most are Wasted Potenial but a few of them are Pop Darts a lot of these strips are available online for free if you follow the links you'll see what I'm talking about.
In Fit 2 Print, we follow around the life of the main character Norm, other characters include Norm's sister, Norm's roommate Bill Warner and Bill's on-again-off-again girlfriend Sheila. Generally these strips are about 4 or 5 panels long, with a gag line at the end.Norm is a cartoonist with a day job working in a fast-food drive thru. Norm's bouts of self-loathing and depression can be clocked, and often are by Norms semi-calloused roommate and buddy Bill Warner. See what I mean below:
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