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Real Madness Comics #1 through #5 By Bobby Madness (writer, artist) Published by Teenage Dinosaur

This 5 issue run went from 2003 to 2012. The first issue was the first Bobby Madness comic put out by Tim Goodyear. It was drawn while Bobby was working at The Candlelight Bar and Cafe, a blues music venue that was located on 5th and Lincoln in downtown Portland Oregon.The first issue was mostly drawn in what is now the Falcon Arts Coop on Albina and Killingsworth Streets.The 2nd issue shows the stoner influence of a hippy girlfreind, and includes an ode to Ed Roth (Valley of the Super Gassers) and has a card stock,full color cover,like the first. The 3rd issue was drawn while the artist was strung out on chrystal meth. During a hiatus from the bar circuit (the actual career of Bobby), the artist worked as a janitor and once again became addicted to drugs.This actually helped the comic turn out well. Number three has an Uzi Duck comic featuring his Unwilling Black Sidekick, a thinly veiled rip off of Samuel Jackson's charachter in Die Hard 3.Real Madness Comics #4 has a black & white cover,and a twisted porno comic that didn't help.The final issue, *5, languished on the drawing table for months.Some time around 2012 Bobby was locked up for punching his girlfreind out when he was drunk at noon in the park. This led to Tim Goodyear sneaking him art supplies in rehab. Abraham Lincoln vs. Adolph Hitler was completed in DePaul treatment center, as the artist toiled away completely sober.It also is possibly the first comic drawn by Bobby clean and sober since he was 13,in 1977.
Retired from comics and working as a doorman after Wow Cool tanked, Bobby was drinking it up living in Portland Oregon.Known as a charming yet worthless ne'er do well, his main use for his artistic talents was drawing chalkboards at local bars in exchange for his tab.Still drawing zines but printing 10 or 20 per run, Bobby was tracked down by Tim Goodyear in 2003. With Tim's encouragement he returned to drawing comics, and the rest is history. His comics now reach hundreds of people worldwide, and he is possibly the most infamous underground zine failure since Kool Man..