And here's another Busiek/Philips collaboration.

Back in 1983 or 1984, Adam and I were rooming together in Cliffside Park, New Jersey, and had jointly joined CAPA-alpha, which I described in a previous entry as one of the longest-running comics apas, and which Wikipedia tells me is in fact the first comics apa ever, started by Jerry Bails in 1964. I think I knew that, but I don't like to make too-declarative statements for fear someone will immediately contradict me and worse, be right.

Anyway, for more on K-a (as it was abbreviated), see its Wikipedia entry.

This was the cover to our first joint apazine, which I think settled down shortly to being called "Kurt & Adam's Comments & Stories," with a logo shamelessly swiped from Walt Disney's Comics & Stories. What you see here was penciled and scripted by me, and inked and lettered by Adam, with the exception that the logo was penciled by me and rendered by Adam (I was always good with letterforms, but bad with any sort of permanent ink). Or such my memory tells me, anyway.

We were big fans of Frank Doyle & Dan deCarlos's Archie Comics work, including Betty & Veronica. Does it show?

[I'm an even bigger fan of Doyle & DeCarlo's pre-Pussycats run on She's Josie/Josie, which to my mind is lighter-than-air perfection, one of the greatest comics runs of the previous century, and should be collected in a nice set of hardcovers by Archie right now, but I'm not holding my breath. I'll have to be satisfied with owning the original art to a full Josie story, starring my favorite supporting characters, Pepper and Sock.]

Incidentally, the above-the-logo dialogue you see was stolen verbatim from an issue of Betty & Veronica Summer Fun. Such hussies, those gals!