Barf Bag Hand Puppets, Part 4

digresssml Originally published June 11, 1993, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1021

Previous installments: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3

Well, I tried.

I had a really good story for “Useless Stories” to run, but I’ve gone through my files and I can’t find the blasted thing. It’s around here somewhere.

For those who came in late: I’m not here. By that I mean even more not here than usual—namely, I’m in Romania involved with a film shoot (albeit, hopefully, not with the police or something equally cheerful). So I’ve pounded out several BIDs in a row in order not to leave gaps. But I’m running out of time and my head is starting to hurt. In fact—I’m feeling sort of sick. Nauseated, even. Why, it makes me want to reach for a…

Yes, that’s right. It’s the return of the Barf Bag hand puppets.

Actually, I’ve gotten so much positive response on the Neil Gaiman Sandman one from last time, it seems to have given the whole thing credibility. Certainly it was the first Eisner/Harvey/World Fantasy-Award winning character ever to grace an airline sick bag. If Neil could mass produce them, he might have a fallback profession if this writing stuff doesn’t pan out. At any rate…

There are renderings from Craig Hamilton (who gave it some thought), Phillip Hester and A. Parke (I hope I got your names right, guys—little hard to read the signatures. If not, I apologize.), and Jeff Smith of Bone fame and—

Hey, who knows where this newest gig of his can lead?

(Peter David, writer of stuff, thinks that Indecent Proposal—wherein Demi Moore sleeps with Robert Redford for a million bucks—could have been improved if (a) they’d gotten Danny DeVito at his slobberiest instead of Redford, so that there was no possible reason for sleeping with the guy other than the money; (b) there’d been some Flying Elvises, and (c) they’d never made the movie in the first place.)