The cartoon on the back cover was originally sketched by an RGC teacher, who asked me to “re-do it” if I wanted to use it. This particular issue got me called to the office for what might have been the third or fourth time. Mainly because I stuffed a copy in the school newspaper’s suggestion box.

The Loudmouth was printed on an Epson LX-80 printer, typeset using WordStar for DOS on an IBM XT and production was limited to fitting strips of 3.75″ text on half a legal size sheet. The photos were taken with Minolta Maxxum and processed at H.E.B. I forget the brand of the copier I used.

The very first issue of The Loudmouth, originally slated to be volume 2 of the comic book series started in 1984, which turned into a four-page flyer that proved more popular than the first project, a lot more work, and fourteen times the headaches. Released on a Friday the 13th in 1985.