(June 2003)
Alternative Comics,
2003 Series
- Price
- 2.95 USD
- Pages
- 24
- On-sale Date
- 2003-06
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Alternative Comics
- Brand
-
Alternative Comics
- ISBN
-
1-891867-51-2
- Barcode
- ?
Issue Notes
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Josh; Sari
- Synopsis
- Josh & Sari are sitting playing cards, surrounded by batiks, carved masks, and other souvenirs of their travels
- Keywords
- autobiography; backpacking; Bali; couples; Indonesia; Thailand; travel
Perseverance Pays Off
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Josh Neufeld
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Josh Neufeld
- Synopsis
- Josh discusses selling his and R. Walker's comic book Titans of Finance during Ralph Nader's 2002 Crackdown on Corporate Crime rally in New York City.
- Keywords
- business; corruption; demonstration; money; politics; R. Walker; Ralph Nader; Titans of Finance; Wall Street
Indexer Notes
Illustrated with photos
Tribal Rituals, Part One: On a Mission
comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography; religious
- Characters
- Josh; Sari
- Synopsis
- Stranded in a remote corner of Thailand, Josh and Sari are taken in by a family of Baptist missionaries. New perspectives — the missionary view of Thai life and the Buddhist view of fireboats — force them to confront their own spiritual longings.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- backpacking; Buddhism; Christianity; missionaries; religion; rituals; Thailand; travel
From the Asylum
comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; biography
- Characters
- Josh Neufeld
- Synopsis
- A teenage boy's mania for lists and statistics
- Keywords
- baseball; Blue Devil; charts; comics; graphs; Hill Street Blues; lists; mental illness; movies; music; Prince; projections; Star Wars; statistics; Teen Titans; television; Thor
I Left My Name in San Francisco
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- drama; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Josh; Sari
- Synopsis
- Josh and Sari take a fictitious Nick-and-Nora turn investigating a friend's strange behavior.
- Reprints
-
from Murder by Crowquill (Known Associates / Amazing Montage, 1999 series) ([June] 1999)
-
- Keywords
- Mafia; police; San Francisco
Case No. 714: Georges Rémi vs. Josh Neufeld
comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; non-fiction; biography; satire-parody
- Characters
- Josh Neufeld; Tintin
- Synopsis
- Humorous courtroom scene where Tintin points out all the ways Neufeld copied Tintin-creator Hergé (George Remi) during the course of his art career, starting from when he was 8 or 9 years old. A light-hearted way of demonstrating the great debt Josh's work owes to the legendary Belgian cartoonist.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Captain Haddock; Snow; Tintin; travel; trial
Song for September 11th
comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography; historical
- Characters
- Josh; Sari
- Synopsis
- Josh reacts to news of planes colliding into the World Trade Center during the September 11th terrorist attack on New York City. Lyrics to the song "New York, New York" (written and composed by Fred Ebb and John Kander) appear with the story text.
- Reprints
- from 9-11 Emergency Relief (Alternative Comics, 2002 series) ([January] 2002)
-
- Keywords
- Fred Ebb; John Kander; Kander & Ebb; New York City; September 11 Terrorist Attacks; terrorism; World Trade Center
Indexer Notes
Original art acquired by the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003653075/
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
Perseverance Pays Off
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2.
Tribal Rituals, Part One: On a Mission
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3.
From the Asylum
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4.
I Left My Name in San Francisco
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5.
Case No. 714: Georges Rémi vs. Josh Neufeld
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6.
Song for September 11th
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7.
Corporal Punishment
This issue was modified by
- Josh Neufeld
- Mike Nielsen
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