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Issue 4, sadly, was never published.  In fact there were issues all the way through to six that never saw print, comics are a hard industry for companies to make a go of it in, and Mermaid Publications quietly closed up shop.  The cover was horrible though, a good idea crippled by my execution.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/524649/Life_as_A_Human.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5fdx8VR4g373 Neil Johnston neiljohnston Neil Johnston Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:47:00 -0700 Go-Go Boy Issue 3 http://go-goboy.posterous.com/go-go-boy-issue-3 http://go-goboy.posterous.com/go-go-boy-issue-3

I admit, looking back at the Go-Go Boy it's all so tragically thin.  Still at the time it was a big deal, the series was one of the first gay superhero comics out there.  Ah, the 90s...  Get a load of the slick computer generated logo we started using with this issue.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/524649/Life_as_A_Human.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5fdx8VR4g373 Neil Johnston neiljohnston Neil Johnston Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:20:00 -0700 Go-Go Boy Issue 2 http://go-goboy.posterous.com/go-go-boy-issue-2-0 http://go-goboy.posterous.com/go-go-boy-issue-2-0

Issue 2 of the  Go-Go Boy, the artwork was much improved and the writing started to find it's own place I think.  I was learning a lot about the narrative structure of comic books on the fly though.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/524649/Life_as_A_Human.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5fdx8VR4g373 Neil Johnston neiljohnston Neil Johnston Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:09:00 -0700 Go-Go Boy Issue 1 http://go-goboy.posterous.com/go-go-boy-issue-1 http://go-goboy.posterous.com/go-go-boy-issue-1

Long ago, back in 1992 I did a comic book series.  It was called Go-Go Boy and followed the exploits of a naive and young gay superhero.  The first issue was very rough, indeed I taught myself to draw over the course of first three issues.  Luckily, or unluckily, I spilt a glass of water on the next two books, meaning I had to re-draw them, resulting in numbers 2 and 3 featuring a huge jump in the quality of artwork. Anyway, here's the first issue.

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