A very small number of copies made it into circulation with a glitchy computer error on one of the last pages of the book. If you have one of those, you are either in possession of a highly collectible rarity, or a defective piece of merchandise. Only time will tell.

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"...one of the most original books available" - Broken Frontier

"Buy it and laugh" - Optical Sloth

"Better luck next time, guys" - The Comics Journal

"...see how good a self-published comic can and should look" - Comic Book Resources

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full reviews here

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After having spent so much time working on various attempts at comic strips, comic books, short stories, and illustrations, it was really depressing to me when I realized how few people had ever actually seen 'em. Practically none of this stuff was ever previously published; most of my friends had never even read this material. I don't even think I've ever told my family I even draw. So, though I was concentrating on my big "real" comic project Broken Lines, in late 2004 I decided to start "cleaning out" my proverbial "closet" of old material. But as it happened, most of this stuff really was in my closet, in portfolios next to my sweaters. It took about a year of occasional scanning, cleaning up, and text-replacing before Failure, Incompetence took shape.

This collection represents several failed (though by no means bad) attempts at full comic book stories, many single panel comic strips (I didn't even include em all), some straight prose, some stuff previously published in zines like VMAG (Northampton, Mass) and Lollipop (Boston, Mass), and then bits from an attempt at previously making a collection project back in 2002. (so sad!).

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"gags by the pound" - QUIMBY'S

"The inconsistency here is enough to drive you insane" - COMICS WAITING ROOM

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Full reviews HERE

Failure, Incompetence is out-of print

Through the Wood... is a re-written, partially redrawn & expanded version of our xeric grant-funded indie release Alec Dear. Find out what Alec Dear, the mischevious gasmask-wearing dead guy does when he finds himself in the burn victim unit of a secluded children's hospital! Zowie fun times!

Alec Dear was written by me, mostly while sitting behind the cash register at an All For A Dollar store in a mall in Salem NH in the early nineties. A perfect setting to write grotesque horror, if you ask me. I tried drawing it, but knew my good buddy Matt Smith had more talent and vision than I did, so he took on the art side of things. He worked on it in Massachusetts, New York, and maybe New Orleans. He applied for a Xeric grant and scored a little money for printing. Between the original self-published Alec Dear story (1996) and this Caliber Comics release (1998) I must've rewritten the damned rhymes a gazabillion times. Paul Jenkins helped out a lot the second time around, and also provided Guinness, which always makes writing better. This was our first time ever being published "for real" and for reasons I cannot recall, we never saw a proof copy. I was sort of crushed when we saw the finished product and there were a few lines missing (somewhat critical in a rhyming poem book) and I think one of the main character's name is misspelled once. Ah, well. We should've asked for a proof. Lesson learned.

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Alec Dear is free upon request if you order something like a poster or another comic. Just e-mail me.

TTWBTM is available through Caliber still, I think.