Just found this flyer for the Fantagraphics warehouse party that was captured in Hooked on Comix Vol. 1!!!

Beat Happening, Heavenly and Sick and Wrong! Sick and Wrong's song "Wessin Oil" was used in the music/comic connection segment of the video. Also, Sick and Wrong played naked!

Ivan Brunetti New Yorker Cover!

A more recent Brunetti cover ...

Ivan Brunetti made his glorious video debut in Hooked on Comix Vol. 2!

Eric Reynolds commented on the Hooked on Comix series way before Volume 3 came out!

"HOOKED ON COMIX and HOOKED ON COMIX Vol. 2 are at long last available on DVD. I highly recommend these documentaries ... They feature revealing and often hilarious interviews with a ton of great artists, including (in Vol. 1) Daniel Clowes, Los Bros. Hernandez, Julie Doucet, Jim Woodring, J.R. Williams, Pat Moriarity and even includes footage from some classic Fantagraphics warehouse parties, including some live Beat Happening footage. Vol. 2, focuses on the Chicago scene, includes Chris Ware, Ivan Brunetti, Charise Mericle, Archer Prewitt, Jessica Abel, and Terry LaBan".
- Eric Reynolds, Fantagraphics Books

Coming up in 2014 ... 20th anniversary of Hooked on Comix Vol. 1! I can't believe that we started working on this over twenty years ago! Hooked on Comix Vol. 1 was released as a VHS tape in 1994 after it debuted at the Chicago Underground Film Festival. It played right before the screening of Crumb!

I wanted to give credit to the late Kim Thompson, the co-founder of Fantagraphics Books. He thought up the great subtitle for Hooked on Comix: Life on the Cutting Edge of an All-American Artform!

Thanks Kim!