Rick Howe

Rick Howe (died October 20, 2007) was a small press minicomic creator and zinester (best known for his 1990s zine Topical Studies), a folk music singer-songwriter, and an American poet.

Life
Originally from Beaufort, South Carolina, Howe relocated to Columbus, Georgia in 1989, where he was an early member of the Shadowville scene, creating and collaborating on dozens of minicomics and poetry chapbooks, as well as being a founding member, with George Sulzbach and Will Dockery, of the Shadowville All-Stars, then known as the Search Group.

Howe relocated to Springdale, Arkansas in 1996, where he remained for the rest of his life, putting out new issues of Topical Studies and minicomics work from time-to-time, writing, and composing and singing his songs.

According to the Rick Howe Memorial page, Howe passed away in 2007.

On October 20, 2007 the Wrong Place community lost our friend, Rick Howe. We have added a new Memorial Page for him. -Wrong Place website



Publications

 * Cold December Mist, a comix poem
 * Geon, Protector of the Environment, 1990s, with Will Dockery.
 * Symbolman 1987.
 * Topical Studies 1990s-present.
 * Daily Tweet, 1987.
 * Crosscurrents, the Small Press League memberzine, 1990-1992.
 * The Bruno Cult

{Here's a short review I found of one of his comix on the Musea site:

The Bruno Cult

Comix Reviews The Bruno Cult $6 to Sensitive Records, PO Box 6697, Springdale, AR 72766. Written by Jeff Zenick and illustrated by Rick Howe (two long standing voices among small press circles), The Bruno Cult is a triumphant celebration of a lifestyle as far removed from the shallow materialism of our American consume and go culture as you're likely to find. Zenick writes of his basic, sincere, vagabond existence with integrity. In a world where the pursuit of the almighty dollar seemingly creates legions of lifeless clones living from sitcom to sitcom, Zenick's utopia of a world free of any capitalist motive simplifies and praises a higher truth. Howe's art jives with this life of a man living by his own ideal, where one strips down living to it's fundamentals: hard work as a means of survival, and happiness through simplicity and freedom. Recommended. All ages. 32 pgs. Full comic sized. Professionally printed. Color covers, b/w interior.}

Poems by Rick Howe

 * Cold December Mist

Reviews by Rick Howe

 * To the Magic Store by Will Dockery