Count Pugsly's Promo
I’ve done many strange things over the years, and in the year 2016 I did journalism for an online magazine called The Monarch Review. I went on strange adventures, saw strange things, and met spectacularly strange people. But out of all those, the most spectacular by far was an author named Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire.
We met at what was once his childhood home in Seattle’s Rainier Valley. And when our interview concluded, he invited me to stay and watch an episode of one of his favorite TV shows. But, having an article to write, I declined. And that unfortunate desiccation remains one of my greatest regrets. Because years later, when I finally mustered the courage to seek Wilum’s friendship, I discovered that he’d passed.
But Wilum didn’t depart without a legacy. And that legacy includes an important part of Seattle’s history: the 13 years he spent performing as a vampire named Count Pugsly at Jones’ Fantastic Museum... home to an “abdominal” snow woman, a mummified Viking giant, and a three-breasted, four-legged woman. Some might find such wonders offensive. But this minicomic is meant as a celebration of the wondrous humor of Wilum’s youth.
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