Blue Grass (sans music)

It seems like at least half of the stories drawn by Grass Green featured nudity and sex, making him a natural candidate for this week's edition of

Something i can relate to about Green was his insistence on creating material that was fun for him, prioritizing his personal enjoyment of the art over potential career options. For years, Dennis Kitchen tried to get him to do stories focusing on social and political themes so Green's work would fit better into Kitchen Sink's comic line-up. Perhaps we were left with a diminished legacy when Richard Green died so young, but hopefully he enjoyed his time in this world more for following his own desires. And he did gain recognition for his work in the industry even if he wasn't widely known. Even publications like Heavy Metal magazine drew upon his talents, though you likely might not have noticed at the time -

In the early 90s, Grass produced four issues of Horny Comix & Stories for Rip Off Press-

It featured pretty much whatever Green felt like creating, including his female 'Tarzan' strip, Gina Of The Jungle...

...which ended with one of the all-time great shock-takes in comics:

I love that face - i may make a t-shirt based on it.

Here's a quick peek at some of what to expect in Horny C&S -

 Warla is one of Grass Green's recurring characters. Let's stop peeking at pages and look at some full stories, starting with Warla's adventure from the second issue of Bizarre Sex -

Another of Green's regular characters was Hobo Hal. Hal was your typical down-n-out guy living rough on the road, with one small exception. Everyone wanted to "ride the hobo express", no matter where he went. You can imagine what happens when he wanders into somebody else's adult comic, like when he showed up Cherry Jubilee (because, apparently, Poptart was already taken)...

That's the typical ending to a Hobo Hall tale - run, Hal, run!
This story, from Grass Green's Good Jive #1 is probably the best summary of Hal's experiences...

Seriously. Everybody wanted to ride.

Our final tale today comes from Bizarre Sex #1 -

Oddly enough, Grass re-used this story almost 20 years later, changing from Incest to Sinnin' the title to match the title of the comic in which it appeared:

Condolences to the fannyless among you who took that bet.

everything by Grass Green for Bizarre Sex #s 1&2, Cherry's Jubilee #3, Good Jive #s 1&2, and Horny Stories & Comix #s 1,2&3 (1971, 1972, 1991, 1993)

Because Black Eye Was A Safer Pun

We looked at Super Soul American last week in our Road To Wakanda post. He was the lead feature of Super Soul Comix and a superhero, so he seemed the more appropriate choice. But there's greener Grass on the other side of the fence in the back of that book. (Yes, that's a terribly weak way to work creator Richard "Grass" Green into the conversation. Maybe it'll get edited out and you won't have to suffer it) As you may or may not have noticed in the previous post, Super Soul American shared the cover of the book:

The guy on the left is the Black Eye - Eric Private. Green seems a bit more relaxed and having more fun with the character in this tale, or perhaps it's just that he made me have more fun while reading it...

This leaves me even more curious to find what other works from Green are hiding out there waiting to be discovered...

the works by Grass Green for Super Soul Comix #1 (1972)