Tea's Weird Week: Cotton. Balls. The Nadine Zine is on the Loose!
And it's only available on eBay
I’ve collaborated with illustrator extraordinaire David Beyer for close to 20 years now. He’s done illustrations for my books and events. There’s been art shows and pet portraits and David edits the Currents Comix Page in the Riverwest Currents, a page I founded 22 years ago (time flies?!) What can I say, the guy has style! So when he asked if I would contribute to his Twin Peaks fanzine, I immediately got a coffee as black as Midnight on a moonless night and several dozen pies and donuts and got to work.
I have fond memories of Twin Peaks. When I was in my early 20s (this was the late 1990s), I lived with a bunch of roommates in the Riverwest neighborhood. One of my roomies, Shelly, had a complete VHS box set of Twin Peaks. I had seen a few David Lynch movies by this point but had never seen the show. For weeks we had a ritual where all the roommates would gather in the living room at night, drink beer and watch a couple episodes. “We’re gonna have a TV party tonight,” as the song goes. It was a carefree time.
I loved all the weird characters, of course. And the strangest of the strange was probably Nadine. She sports an eyepatch, is obsessed with noiseless drape runners, and for some reason has superhuman strength. She has a particularly kooky storyline in season 2 where she awakes from a coma and thinks that she’s still a high schooler.
The piece-de-resistance of The Nadine Zine is a comic David drew, a-ahem-Nadine’s eye view (Oh, Ed!) of some of the plot points of Twin Peaks. I contributed a short appreciation of one of my favorite characters– the no nonsense Special Agent Albert Rosenfield. The talented Anna Alicia Rodriguez (who I’ve also collaborated with a few times) wrote and illustrated a nice tribute to Audrey Horne. Some of David’s other pals contributed some vibrant gallery pages. Get me a glass of water cause my socks are on fire!
Well done! In a truly Lynchian twist, the publication is only available via eBay. Haaaaa, I love it: AN EBAY EXCLUSIVE. Order a copy right here. It’s $15 shipped, you don’t have to snipe someone’s bid on it: https://www.ebay.com/itm/236087374601
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