QBU Student Blast From the Past:

So yesterday I am looking through the stacks for Jeffery Scott`s book on writing for animation for a pre-production class I am teaching today and I ran across this 1977 gem:



Parade Of Gore, lovingly calls POG for short, by the first and second Kurbert School classes that put it out in 1977 much to the disgust of Joe Kurbert. (not the name, that we put it out) The subject matter of two pieces were of a sexual and or scatological nature and were therefore too much for Joe and Muriel.

The offenders were Rick Grimes and Cara Sherman. (sadly Care is no longer with us) Rick`s back cover is open to some interpretation but all of them were a little lacking in taste. Cara`s vampire lunar cycle oral sex strip was not open to any kind of interpretation or taste, but was very well done.

The fun parts of the book are all the other crude student pages many by people currently of some stature is the Animation and Comic Book worlds:

• Steve Bissette (Comic Books)


• John Totleben (Comic Books)


• Tom Yeates (Comic Books)


• Tom Mandrake (Comic Books)


• David Schwartz (Animation)


• Tom Marnick (Animation)


• Kim Demulder (Comic Books)


• Chris Kalnick (Comic Books)


• Kevin Altier (Animation)


• Dave Dorman (Comic Books / Movie Posters)


• Ron Randall (Comic Books)


• Rick Vitch (Comic Books)


• Larry Loc (Animation)

The Bissette, Totleben, Yeates, Vitch and Schwartz pages are not too bad, artwork wise. The rest of you have been warned. I am willing to keep your student artwork under wraps for the right price. You know the drill, $100,000 each in unmarked gumballs in the hollow log behind the swimming pool at the old Baker Mansion and your fans never have to see your early published work.