We used rather unorthodox means of drawing and inking the comix. I would draw a panel, then Tim would draw a panel. What ever way the story went, we had no clue beforehand. Later we switched to full pages, then full stories. The main characters Flip, Dip, & Drip were based on two mutual friends that Tim & I had. We each ran around with them at different times in our youth, but not at the same time. Tim and I met later. A lot of the stories are actually based on our real life interactions with our mutual friends. We never pictured our selves as any one of the characters in particular, but rather just had certain characters with certain tendencies.

Please note that our publishing methods back then were rather crude. We did our own 4 color cover plate layouts, experimenting as we went. All the covers were printed in Iowa City by a local pamphlet printer. We hand folded and hand stapled all of the covers onto the newsprint inner. The insides of Lost Cause Comixs # 1, # 2, and Tales of Lost Times # 1 were printed in Iowa City by a local Shopper printer that glued and trimmed the inner to size without the cover. The covers fit fairly well on the inners, but the glue created problems with stapling the cover on due to air pockets that allowed the staples to distort the covers. The inner for Lost Cause Comes # 3 was printed loose leaf by a local Shopper printer in Des Moines, Iowa and hand stapled then hand trimmed by us with a bad paper cutter, one issue at a time. We were truly underground.

The bad color work on the earlier issues along with the bad quality/ consistency of the ink plates created a lot of comix with a different look copy to copy. The paper on LCC #1 was a glossy outer and a dull inner. We switched to a different type of paper after that comix. The inner cover of LCC #1 shows a first printing of 1,000 issues, but we switched to 5,000 at the last minute while forgetting to correct the first printing number to 5,000.

Due to all the above mentioned production problems, the distributors were hesitant to distribute the comix after initial orders due to complaints by collectors. We resorted to fanzine adds and write-ups by different reviewers and did mail-order for a while. I have mailed copies of the comix around the world to various collectors but slowly let it die off. Hence, I still have an attic full of unassembled comix, all four issues, amounts unknown. I closed down the P.O. Box when the Post Office moved to a larger Post Office Branch Building. Our current address is Lost Cause Productions, 1974 Summit Street, Des Moines, Iowa, 50315. Our mailing address is the same.