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This is a collection of Nichol's comic strips and cartoons from 1960 to 1980. Nelson Ball, the bookseller comments "There is a serious error in this book in the titling of the final sequence which should be "The Lives & Loves of Captain George" and not "John Cannyside" as titled. The sequence is actually based on an interview of George Henderson, the proprietor of Memory Lane [book store and publisher] in Toronto. [Note: Most of the crossed through names on page 294 are pseudonyms used by Henderson for the pornographic novels he wrote, published in the USA by Knight Volumes, Target Novels, Lantern Books, Candlelight Books and Neva Paperbacks from 1964 to 1968]. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the 2nd edition of the leaflet first published by Ganglia Press in 1970. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The drawings were made by Nichol and the text written by Riddell. An additional copy, designated Gronk Series 2 No.6., is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The comic features Milt the Morph as Lonely Fred and his dealings with the letter 'H.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Usually published in an edition of 400 copies. This piece was later published in a 2nd edition as Curvd H&Z No.195 that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The drawings were made by Nichol and the text written by Riddell. An additional copy, designated is No.2 in Gronk 35cent Mimeographed Series, is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Probably printed in an edition of 400 copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This printed version appeared as Curvd H&Z No.195. The first edition was published by Ganglia 1970. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Printed as a Christmas gift, this work is from "Comics" by bp Nichol, editied by Carl Peters and forthcoming from Talonbooks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This Christmas card has a comic strip by bp Nichol of Lonely Fred Five on its cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Book Thug Internet: Poetry, comic book art, pop culture, concrete poetry, the lyric, the myth of the cowboy, even the myth of the poet-hero: these are just some of the avenues explored by bpNichol in The Captain Poetry Poems. In this short portrait of the poet as a young man, our hero is a dilemma: part fabrication and part confession, Cap is a character created by these poems that extends their author into realms of possible identities. Who is Captain Poetry? Is he a poet? Is he a hero? Is he the bearer of heretofore important and unknown knowledge? Written at a time when questions about what poetry might be; when questions about what the figure of the poet might be, The Captain Poetry Poems showed Nichol grappling with some of the cliches inherent to both his craft and his identity. Playful, even at times silly, but never without the human intelligence Nichol is best known for, these poems may not be the "best" work in Nichol's oeuvre, but their experiments reveal important...

Scope and Contents This book was reissued by Book Thug in 2011 with a new afterword by bill bissett.Internet: This book tells the story of the eponymous superhero and his struggle to find happiness. Bald, beaked and wattled, "Cap""”Nichol's pet name for him"”is hardly the rock-jawed conqueror. In fact, with his visor, spandex, wings and six-pack abs, our man looks like a mutant chicken. Cap is a sad sack: self-conscious, plagued by doubts, undone by indecision, torn about his purpose in life. Nichol shouts encouragements from the sidelines ("O CAPTAIN POETRY SEE IT THRU") but, plum out of ideas, Cap finds himself in a Groundhog Day funk ("O he sings like a madman, talks like he's sane, / and does it each day again and again"). And popping up everywhere in the book (in one case even cradling Captain Poetry's head) is Nichol's most intriguing and disquieting alter ego: Milt the Morph, the dementedly smiling, empty-eyed troublemaker. It's obvious Nichol intended the book to be both a send-up of the...

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Printed as gift for family and friends, Christmas 1987. The back cover depicts a photograph of the Nichol's family taken by Sean O'Huigin. Sarah was a baby then, held by bp. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.