Woodrow Comics #1

Woodrow Comics #1 by Chris Auman coming soon from RoosterCow Press! The Woodrows are the most notorious and prolific punk bands in history. They’re loud, obnoxious, and rude. In short, they make perfect subjects for the crude and absurd comic that is Woodrow Comics.

To say that the Woodrows are prolific would be an absurd understatement. No one really knows for certain how many live albums, box sets, bootlegs, and 7-inch records they’ve released. That said, Woodrow Comics features a few of their more memorable albums from the past forty-plus years.

Read the Reglar Wiglar interview with The Woodrows!

Specs.

5.5″ x 8.5″ 24 pages, B&W

Review of Woodrows Comics

One thing I’ve been happy to see as I get older (and older, and older) is people who put out mini comics 30-40 years ago either jumping back into the game or republishing their old material. And, honestly, since a lot of that old material was sold in one or two shops at the time (with little or no internet available) and had print runs of maybe 50 copies, it’s likely to be new to the vast majority of people who see it now. Woodrow Comics was started by Chris and a friend who were bored in high school in the late 80’s, to give you some idea of the origins of this material. Specifically they were bored in a “just say no” school conference, that infamous attempt to keep kids off of drugs that more often than not just explained to kids how the various drugs were likely to make them feel. So Chris and his friend made up a fake band, then fell in love with the concept and made up all kinds of fake albums, songs, band history, all of that stuff. He put the original comics out in 1995 (and, hilariously, puts some old reviews in the back; Terry Laban was actually a fan), they didn’t exactly make much of a splash, but he always liked them, so he cleaned the art up a bit and re-released them. There’s a fair amount of funny stuff in here if you have any experience with punk bands and/or Spinal Tap-like band parodies (30 songs on a 10 minute album got an audible chuckle out of me). Most of the book is descriptions of some of their albums, descriptions of them and a few songs from each, but there’s also an ad from the band for a bong cleaner, a few comic strips, and even a fake interview with them. Check out the sample page, that should give you some idea of whether or not this is your type of humor. Me, I laughed several times, so yeah, I’d say this is worth a look. — Kevin Bramer, Optical Sloth

Reviews of the Original Woodrow Comics #1

This mini looks like it was drawn on a napkin in a bar late one Saturday night and printed at Kinko’s on the way home, but it’s pretty darn funny. I dunno, sometimes good things come in small packages. —Terry Laban, CUD comic

Woodrows Rule! Rather than spend 10 bucks on a record by a band that sucks, send one for a comic about a band that rules! —Roctober zine

What a silly, ugly, obnoxious little publication this is. Apparently, Roctober and Terry Laban were not completely baffled by this like I was. They must have a much higher tolerance for crap than I do because I hate it —Bevvy Messerntsky, Lumpen Times