Caricature by Matt Wagner

It was 1982, and DUCKWORK - a short-lived newspaper “CREATED FOR THE PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF ART COMMUNITY”- was a dead duck, but one of the ex-Ducks decided to have a party. Being that I talked incessantly about film and had mentioned my 8mm cinematic efforts more than once, somebody suggested a film festival. I could bring my reels and we could fill the rest of the evening out with commercial films which were mainly released in Super-8 format by a company called Castle Films. They weren't the entire film. They were more like highlight reels that told the story in a greatly condensed form.

I had some horror films like The Mummy and House of Frankenstein. I think Matt Wagner had some of the old Batman serials from the '40s; Bill Cucinotta brought some reels, and there were a few other things to pad out the bill.

So it was decided. The kids were going to put on another show. Matt decided to hold it at his apartment which was among some student housing in a tenement-like building in the 1400 block of Spruce Street. It was a large apartment that Matt shared with two or three other roommates and it, and it was called The Swamp.

Matt also did me the honor of drawing the attached poster for the party. He penciled, lettered and inked it on a 14" x 17" sheet of bristol board.