'Buddha on the Road' #2 (1996).
Colin Upton was born in 1960 in Winnipeg, but spent most of his childhood in West Vancouver. He was one of the most notable artists of the Canadian small-press movement between 1985 to 1988. He published dozens of mini comics, many of which portrayed his encounters with Vancouver street people and other marginal characters.
'Buddha on the Road' #2 (1996).
In 1990, Upton released the autobiographical comic 'Big Thing', which was soon picked up by Fantagraphics Books. When Fantagraphics canceled the titles after four issues, Upton returned to mini comics and continued to do an occasional story for anthologies. In 1995, Upton began 'Buddha on the Road', an anti-religious adventure epic of which six issues appeared.
In 2015, he was interviewed in the documentary 'I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!', about David Boswell.
'Buddha on the Road'. Note the cameo by Roberta Gregory's Bitchy Bitch in the fourth panel.