Woodrow Comics #2 by Chris Auman

Woodrow Comics #2 by Chris Auman! If you don’t know, 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.

Originally published in the mid 1990s, Woodrow Comics by Chris Auman features an annotated illustrated discography of the band’s recorded output in glorious black and white. Plus an interview with the band from the Reglar Wiglar zine.

WARNING: If you are offended by crude subject matter, juvenile humor, scatological references, and sophomoric sexual innuendo, DO NOT buy this very stupid comic.

Specs.

5.5″ x 8.5″ 24 pages, B&W.

The Saga Continues…

(from the intro to Woodrow Comics #2)

If you read Woodrow Comics #1, then you should be familiar with the Woodrows’ origin story. Here’s a summary: in 1986, two high school students attend a drug and alcohol prevention conference, are subsequently bored out of their minds, and start drawing comics about the most drug-addled, depraved punk rock band in history, The Woodrows.

In the ‘90s, the Woodrows appeared regularly in the Reglar Wiglar zine, as well as their own cheaply produced minicomics. This band of four brothers (Ricky, Toby, Marvy, and Erin) is crude, rude, juvenile, poorly drawn, and completely absurd, and yet they have survived in some form or another for close to four decades.

As I said in the previous issue, the point of this comic was never to make fun of addiction. It is simply a parody of punk stereotypes. Most of what appears here was published in issue #2 of the original mini-comic, along with some other relics. Enjoy!

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

Review of the Original Woodrow Comics by Chris Auman

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