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Wild Wigout Comix Game Boards

2009-12-31T14:28:00.000-08:00

Wild Wigout Comix Game Boards were created by some very talented and well known underground artists at the now defunct Scairy Hairy Toys in San Fransisco, Ca. in the early/mid 1990s.

These very crazy game boards were hand silk-screened and were probably pretty limited (maybe a hundred of each?).

There were only ten (?) different games created, of which I now am lucky to have all of now.

There is absolutely no information on this interweb thingy about these really cute and creative handmade games.... so I figured I'd post some images of the games and see if there are any other collectors of this "art".

Here's the list of the ten known games with links to the games and artists:

1. Land o' Sugar by David Fremont

2. Skidrow A-Go-Go by Mats. O (Mats O. Stromberg)

3. Bughouse by Steve Lafler (creator of the Bugjuice comix books)

4. Brew-HaHa by Wayno

5. Boredom by Daniel Clowes (creator of the Ghost World and Eightball comix)

6. Death 'n' Taxe$ by JR Williams

7. Kids These Days by Sperry

8. RoadsKill by R. L. Crabb

9. Heavenly Ham House by Lloyd Dangle

10. Paníque by Richard Sala

Flower Frankenstein, along with Bruce Hilvitz, published the extremely wonderful board games and can be found by clicking on their names!

And Don't Forget to Click on the Images for Jumbo Pictures of the Game!

Death 'N' Taxes!! (1993)

2009-12-31T14:13:00.000-08:00

Front cover

Death 'N' Taxes!! by JR Williams

The One & Only Inevitable Game!

With Your TORMENTED SOULS Game Pieces Included!

Yikes! Each Year It's The Same Old Game. You Finally Get A Step Up The Ladder, When... Whoopsie, Down The Slide You Go!

Click on the images for enlarged goodness!!!

Back cover

Silk screen game board

Rules with silk screen game pieces

Artist information

Remember Mr. Satan (of the IRS) says -- No Cheatin'!! The Ol' Devil's Got His Eye On You!!

Kids These Days (1994)

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Front cover
A Game For The Juvenile Delinquent Raging In All Of Us!!!

For The Wild Wanton Youngster Ramblin' For A Kick!!!

by Chuck Sperry

Object of the Game: To be the first player to reach the "Dead End" (at the end of the "Life of Crime - Downward Spiral"). May The Baddest Win!

From the back:

Remember playing boardgames like Candyland? You were an innocent kid with a dumb hair cut wishing so "bad" you were playing something else like "Super Colossal Master of All Elementary Schools or Ruler of All the Fudgesicles in the Freezer!" Your super strength allowing you to flick your opponent across the orange shag carpet? Well... Your wishes have come true. With The Wild Wigout Comix Gameboards!

Kids These Days was one of seven crazy art boardgames produced by Scairy Hairy Toys, San Fransisco in the early to mid-1990s. Each was created by a local underground artist and each was handmade, silk-screened and extremely limited (around 100 each).

Back cover

Silk screen game board

Rules and silk screen game pieces

Artist information

Whoops!

2009-12-30T22:12:00.000-08:00

I forgot that I haven't posted the images for the Wild Wigout Comix Game Boards Kids These Days by Sperry and Death 'n' Taxe$ by JR Williams... I'll have to get to that in the next day or two!

Scairy Hairy Toys Hand-Made Mask (circa 1994)

2009-12-30T21:35:00.000-08:00

hand silk screen mask

back side of mask info

Finally Robert Speray was kind enough to pass on an unopened hand-made silk screen mask made by the Scairy Hairy Toy Co. in San Francisco, California which was really awfully cool of him.

Click on the above images for blow-ups.

Here's a bit of an email he sent me that gives a tad more information on the store and the people who worked there.

All the stuff they made was playful, fun, and visually
interesting. Going into the store was always a treat. 
The store's open space and display window had monthly
themes.  Each month the store was turned into
a walk-in game space.

Flower (Frankenstein) worked in the back making
the stuff.  It was her ideas and designs and
manufacturing work that created the output. 
They sold other things too, interesting
alternative items from standard distribution
channels such as limited edition prints. 
Bruce managed the place.  They
seemed to be a fun couple that got along
ok and were doing something together that
was fulfilling and carried them ok.  Later I
heard they had broke up and the store was gone. 
I lost track of them, and the stuff I had
bought was put into my room of stuff and got
buried and forgotten.

Four years ago I ran across a few games and
wondered what had happened to Flower and Bruce. 
I googled their names and found that Flower was
doing some other things now, and Bruce seemed
to be around doing his thing.  I never got
in contact with them.  Recently I googled them
again, and Flower has a strong web presence with
a blog and a book. Before, there was zero references
to the store or the games.  Then on a recent search,
it was your blog that showed up as the definitive search
result for the name, and the games. 
Thanks for putting it up.  I hope you'll continue.

Skidrow A Go-Go (1994)

2009-12-30T20:56:00.000-08:00

Front Cover

Take Out Your Aggressions Along With Your Opponents As You Stumble Head First Into The Glamorous Life-Styles Of Crackheads, Thieves and Alcoholics!!!

Ah, my holy grail of Wild Wigout Comix Game Boards and it's by Mats O. Stromberg!

Only around 100 of these beautiful hand silk-screen babies exist! How much are they worth? Absolutely nothing monetarily! But to me the Wild Wigout Comix Game Boards are classic works of underground art!

Just click on the pictures and see!

This one I had been searching for since I first discovered the games way back in the early 1990's while working at indie record store Sound Exchange in Austin, Texas. I missed out on a copy on eBay about four years ago but kept looking and searching.

Finally I got lucky and Robert Speray posted a listing on eBay for the game... a big thanks to Robert because he also turned me on to three other Wild Wigout games that I didn't know existed!

back cover

silk-screen game board

rules and silk screen game pieces

artist information

Paníque - The Spooky Frightmare Game! (1994)

2009-12-30T20:28:00.000-08:00

Front cover

The third of the great Wild Wigout Comix Game Board by Scairy Hairy Toys that I didn't know existed! Only around 100 of each Wild Wigout game was made!

Once again I must give a great big thanks to Robert Speray who sold me two games on eBay and then informed me of two more he had for sale!

This one's a scairy one by the great gothic cartoonist Richard Sala!!! Make sure you check out his crazy website for info on his art and his Evil Eye comix book!

back cover

silk screen game board

rules and silk screen game pieces

artist information

Heavenly Ham House - The Safe-Sex Virtual-Reality Role-Playing Game!! (1994)

2009-12-30T20:04:00.000-08:00

Front cover of box

Another of the great Wild Wigout Comix Game Board by Scairy Hairy Toys that I didn't know existed!

Again a great big thanks to Robert Speray who sold me two games on eBay and then informed me of two more he had for sale!

This nasty little one's by Lloyd Dangle and it's a hoot! Don't forget to click on the images for the gory mega-detailed blow-ups!

back cover

silk screen game board

rules and silk screen game pieces

Disturbing artist info

RoadSkill - Survival on Life's Great Highway (1994)

2009-12-30T19:41:00.000-08:00

Another great Wild Wigout Comix Game Board by Scairy Hairy Toys and one of three I didn't know existed!

A great big thanks to Robert Speray who sold me two games on eBay and then informed me of two more he had for sale!

So it's ten games that Scairy Hairy Toys has put out not seven as I was told by one of the owners (Flower Frankenstein).

And now I have all ten... but will more surface in the near future?

This one's by R. L. Crabb. Click on the images to see blow-ups of the art and to see how crazy this game really is.

As with all the Wild Wigout games, there's probably around 100 of this silk-screened games floating around out there!

Pay your Respects to the Vultures for they are your Future

2009-11-13T11:04:00.000-08:00

5th Anniversary of the Death of Jhonn Balance (Coil)
16 February 1962 - 13 November 2004

Daniel Clowes' Boredom - The Dismal Anti-Game for 1 to 3 Players (1994)

2009-04-19T12:36:00.000-07:00

Here is a game that explores the mind-numbing sameness of daily existence in Modern Urban America.

Players spin the "spinner" and move clockwise around the board and may Only leave the game when:

A. The pointer lands on SUICIDE,
B. You land on either of the squares in which SUICIDE CONTEMPLATION is featured.

At these time Only may you place your player in the center, you May Not stop unless rules 2A or 2B apply.

The last player left after the others have committed suicide Wins or Loses, depending on your perspective.

Fun for the whole disfunctional family!

Tentacles and Gates (or Cthulhu's Snakes and Ladders)

2009-04-08T20:25:00.000-07:00

Rough draft of a silly little silk-screen game I'm fiddling around making....

Bughouse - Wild Wigout Comix Game Board

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The Third Wild Wigout Game in the Series!

Bughouse - Be-Bop Game (1993)

A Wild Wigout Comix Game Board

by Steve Lafler - creator of the Bugjuice comix books

http://www.stevelafler.net/

Become a master Jazz Musician like Charlie Parker and Coltrane before getting hooked on Bug Juice and ending up stone-cold dead in the gutter... fun for the whole family!

Click on the Pictures for Jumbo Images!!!

Don't Be A Doinks, Daddy-O!!!

One More Brew-HaHa Image

2009-01-16T17:18:00.000-08:00

Brew-HaHa - Wild Wigout Comix Game Board

2009-01-16T16:25:00.000-08:00

Here's the second of the six Wild Wigout Comix Game Boards that I have. It's called:

Brew-HaHa - The Official Beer Nutz Comix Game (1993)

It was created by underground comic artist Wayno (http://www.wayno.com/) in the mid 1990s for the now extinct Scairy Hairy Toys which was previously located in San Fransisco, Ca.

To play the game you need a case or three of cheap, cheap beer, shot glasses, and the song Rubber Biscuit by The Chips....

The object of the game is to out-drink your opponents while staying conscious yourself. The winner of the game is the last one standing and/or resisting the urge to throw-up especially while dancing and singing along to the great hit song "Rubber Biscuit" performed by The Chips circa 1956. Yes, anytime a player lands on the Rubber Biscuit space everyone has to jump up and shout Rubber Biscuit, Rubber Biscuit!!! while dancing to the song. Any player returning their cheap beer rental via the porcelain god is immediately disqualified and is banished to pass out in the bathtub.

Here's the song:

http://rapidshare.com/files/184610309/Chips_-_Rubber_Biscuit.rar

A here's the second coming of the Blues Brothers performing Rubber Biscuit live if you're not familiar with the song... now image drinking a crap load of cheap beer and having to drunkenly dance to this song a dozen times while playing the game.... pure genius on Wayno's part.

Click on the images to make them jumbo!!!

Remember to drink responsibly.

Land o' Sugar - Wild Wigout Comix Game Board

2009-01-13T19:48:00.000-08:00

Front Cover of Box

Land O' Sugar is a smorgasbord of wiry mutants and undulating creeps resulting in nothing less than sweet molten insanity... mark my works, the fell good board game of the millennium!

David Fremont's Fun Action Game!

A 1 lbs. o' hard round candies not included!

Click on the images for jumbo versions!

Back Cover of Box (one pound of hard candy not included!)

Silk Screen Game Board

Rules and Silk Screen game pieces

Artist information

Crime & the City Solution - I Have The Gun (12")

2008-12-31T13:00:00.000-08:00

Question:
Do you love Nick Cave?
How about The Birthday Party?
Or Einstürzende Neubauten?
How about the film Wings of Desire?
You do?
Well, how about Crime and The City Solution?
Who?
Well, check out this EP and then head over to Young Moss Tongue to experience more of this great and over-looked band...

...you won't be disappointed:

http://youngmosstongue.blogspot.com/search/label/Crime%20%2B%20The%20City%20Solution

burned from the 12" on Mute Records, 1990.. the bass sounds a bit distorted but it could be the $9 speakers I have attached to my laptop...

from Wiki.:

Crime and The City Solution were a rock music band formed by Australian singer and songwriter Simon Bonney.

They had four distinct line-ups: Sydney in 1977-78, Melbourne in 1979, and two groupings in Berlin from 1985-1990. The only common member in all four line-ups was Bonney.

Other members included: former members of The Birthday Party (Mick Harvey and Rowland S. Howard); former Swell Maps drummer Epic Soundtracks; and Alexander Hacke from Einstürzende Neubauten.

Crime and the City Solution completed four studio albums and a number of E.Ps during its existence, and a live album has since been released. Further early recordings have resurfaced on the internet. Parallels have been drawn between Crime and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Crime were famed for their live performances, where Bonney's delicate physical appearance contrasted sharply with his deep, dark voice. He has since gone on to record solo material.

http://rapidshare.com/files/178566992/I_Have_The_Gun_EP.rar

Avengers EP (1979) on White Noise Records

2008-12-31T11:08:00.000-08:00

Classic Early American Punk

four-song EP produced by Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols (who the Avengers opened for at the Winterland in San Francisco at the Sex Pistols final show)....

...was released on White Noise Records in 1979 a couple months after the band broke up. Tracks The American In Me and Uh Oh are different than the versions on Pink Album release...

Produced by Geza X who produced a lot of early California punk releases including the Dead Kennedys , the Germs, and Black Flag...

James Wilsey later went on to play lead guitar with Chris Isaak....

Brad Kent was influential in the early Canadian punk scene and played in early versions of DOA and the Subhumans before joining the Avengers...

burned from the original black vinyl..

images stolen from Discog.com as my photos looked shitty...

http://rapidshare.com/files/178540857/Avengers_EP__1979_.rar

The Wedding Present - Live, Leicester Poly, 5th May 1987

2008-12-30T12:50:00.000-08:00

Burned from the cassette.... very good sound quality from this early show at a nearly empty university gig....

http://rapidshare.com/files/178306492/Live__Leicester_Poly__5th_May_1987.rar

Robert Anton Wilson - The Jumping Jesus Phenomenon

2008-12-29T23:10:00.000-08:00

Here's the second of the two R.A.W. tapes I have... this one was professionally recorded unlike the first one I posted which was an audience recording....

the recording takes place the next day, this time in Denver...

Sounds True seems to have been/is a convention recording company so the sound is very good... unfortunately, they did not mike the audience so their questions at the end are hard to hear or not recorded...

Robert Anton Wilson - The Jumping Jesus Phenomenon February 29, 1986 Denver, Colorado

...loads of wonderful conspiracy looniness and deep thinking...

http://rapidshare.com/files/178269758/Jumping_Jesus_Phenomenon.rar

Robert Anton Wilson - Live Feb. 28, 1986 Boulder, CO.

2008-12-29T15:49:00.000-08:00

Another of my collection of oddities. A very funny spoken word performance by Robert Anton Wilson on February 28, 1986 in Boulder, Colorado... probably at the University of Colorado...

I have another of these live recordings floating around, I'll see if I can't get it up in the next week or so....

if you're not familiar with R.A.W., he was a cosmic jokester and conspiracy author who wrote such infamous books as The Illuminatus! Trilogy (with Robert Shea), and the Cosmic Trigger books among others...

he was also a life-long friend Timothy Leary...

some Wiki links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Trigger_I:_The_Final_Secret_of_the_Illuminati

I reread the Cosmic Trigger books and The Illuminatus! Trilogy every couple of years just to stay sane.... fnord.

http://rapidshare.com/files/178034028/Live_Boulder__Colorado_Feb.rar

The Wedding Present Ukrainian Live Middleton 1989

2008-12-29T15:33:00.000-08:00

I still have a load of cassette tapes floating around (maybe 150 or so)... mainly obscure stuff that has not been released on CD or live bootlegs of shows...

....including five or six Wedding Present live cassettes purchased at a garage sale a number of years ago when a friend of mine went minimalist (thanks Karl!).

Here's the first of them.

It's more of their fun Ukrainian style music than their regular punk/pop.

I have no idea what the cassette cover says although the actual cassette says the show took place sometime in Middleton, UK in 1989.... enjoy!

oh, and click on the cassette cover image for a big blow-up if you can read Ukrainian...

http://rapidshare.com/files/177995910/Ukrainian_Live_89.rar

Slow night working the bar on a Saturday Night

2008-12-28T01:46:00.000-08:00

(COIL)Tactile / Rosa Mundi - Grief / The Snowman split 7"single

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Picture Disc 7" limited to 777....

Released in honour of the late Jhonn Balance (aka Geff Rushton) of Coil who died in November 2004.

Side A. Tactile - Grief (featuring John Balance of Coil)(Written By - John Everall / Jhonn Balance, Text Written By William Hope Hodgson)

...just a note, William Hope Hodgson wrote the Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder stories among others, he's one of my favorite short story writers and info. can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hope_Hodgson

Side B. Rosa Mundi - The Snowman (Written By - Rose McDowall / Jhonn Balance)

...Rose McDowall has had multiple incarnations including the early 80's pop band Strawberry Switchblade, Current 93, Death in June, NoN, Coil, etc...

http://rapidshare.com/files/176753552/Tactile___Rosa_Mundi_-_Grief___The_Snowman.rar

Cosmonauts Hail Satan - Satan, Yuri And You Pts. I & II

2008-12-25T11:36:00.000-08:00

Here's the first single by Cosmonauts Hail Satan on Shock Records released in 1992.

More noisy goodness...

Limited to 666 hand-numbered copies, burned from my vinyl copy which is #177...

I posted their second single (their cover of Coil's Hellraiser Theme) back on 3/16/08...

http://rapidshare.com/files/176738850/Satan__Yuri_and_You_7__single.rar