Weirdo
#1
(Spring 1981)
Last Gasp,
1981 Series
- Price
- 2.25 USD
- Pages
- 44
- On-sale Date
- 1981
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Last Gasp Eco Funnies
- Brand
-
Last Gasp
- Editing
- Robert Crumb (credited as R. Crumb) (editor)
Issue Notes
1st printing: March 1981 (10000 copies, 2.25 USD); 2nd printing: ? (3.95 USD)
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
[Featuring Etoain Shrdlu]
Etoain Shrdlu / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Etoain Shrdlu
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Cover design resembles early issues of Mad as a Magazine.
[Psychic Dominance- How to Rule Others with Your Thoughts]
illustration / 0.29 page
Indexer Notes
A column featuring eight classic comic book classified ads- "Psychic Dominance- How to Rule Others with Your Thoughts," "Do You Want Power? Secular Products," "Men! This is It! Nothing Like These Cartoon Booklets, Ever! Q. T. Sales," "Cartoon Booklets- Reginald Sales," "Frenchy Playing Cards- Parisian Art Imports," "Party Records for Adults Only," "Power Like Yoga-Hypnotism-Telepathy-Psychology Combined," "Illustrated Comic Booklets- Terry Thorne"
Weirdo the Magazine for Modern Misfits
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 0.63 page
- Script
- Robert Crumb (credited as R. Crumb)
- Pencils
- ? (photo)
- Inks
- ? (photo)
- Letters
- Robert Crumb (credited as R. Crumb)
- Characters
- Robert Crumb (photo)
- Reprints
Weirdo's Advice to the Lovelorn
Weirdo's Advice to the Lovelorn / text article / 0.08 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ? (photo)
- Inks
- ? (photo)
- Letters
- Robert Crumb ?
- Characters
- Prof. T. E. Zwigoff (photo of Terry Zwigoff)
TV Blues
Etoain Shrdlu / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Robert Crumb (credited as R. Crumb)
- Pencils
- Robert Crumb (credited as R. Crumb)
- Inks
- Robert Crumb (credited as R. Crumb)
- Letters
- Robert Crumb (credited as R. Crumb)
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Etoain Shrdlu; Etoain's Son; Etoain's Wife
- Synopsis
- Etoain is pulled into his TV to participate in wild dancing.
- Reprints
-
in Endzeit Comics (Zweitausendeins, 1986 series) ([Juni] 1986) -
in Epix (Epix, 1984 series) #5/1987 (37) (maj 1987) -
in Obras Completas Crumb (Ediciones La Cúpula, 1985 ? series) #3 - La historia de mi vida (1990) -
in The Complete Crumb Comics (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #14 - The Early '80s & Weirdo Magazine (April 2000) - in Klassiker der Comic-Literatur (Frankfurter Allgemeine, 2005 series) #19 - Fritz the Cat (2006)
- in R. Crumb The Weirdo Years: 1981-'93 (Last Gasp, 2013 series) (2013)
-
Suburban Cowgirls
photo story / 4 pages
- Script
- Robert Crumb ?
- Pencils
- Gregg Gannon (credited as "Stomp" Ganos) (photographs)
- Inks
- Gregg Gannon (credited as "Stomp" Ganos) (photographs)
- Letters
- Robert Crumb
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Billy Jo (photo of ?); Ricki (photo of ?); Chi-Chi (photo of ?)
- Synopsis
- Three cowgirls compare vacuums
Indexer Notes
Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Erna Burger and Cecelina Franchescini are the main characters. Which specific character they played to be determined. Credits from Last Gasp's The Book of Weirdo (2019).
[Zermatism]
text article / 6 pages
- Script
- Robert Crumb (intro); Stanisław Szukalski (credited as Stanislav Szukalski)
- Pencils
- Stanisław Szukalski (credited as Stanislav Szukalski)
- Inks
- Stanisław Szukalski (credited as Stanislav Szukalski)
- Letters
- Robert Crumb (intro); Stanisław Szukalski (credited as Stanislav Szukalski); typeset
- Characters
- Bess; Yetinsyn; King Faruk; Fiorello H. La Guardia; Fidel Castro; Nikita Khrushchev; Tsar's Soldat; Village Eta; Charles Manson; William Calley; Labor Leader; Doctor; Maria Lima; Juan Corona
- Synopsis
- Article concerning Szukalski's unconventional theories about the origins of man
- Reprints
- from Troughful of Pearls or Behold!!! the Protong (Glen Bray, 1980 series) #[nn] (1980)
Indexer Notes
Includes twenty-eight portrait illustrations.
The Witch Of Malleghem
Old Timers / illustration / 2 pages
- Pencils
- Pieter Bruegel de Oudere (credited as Pete Brueghel) (engraving)
- Inks
- Pieter Bruegel de Oudere (credited as Pete Brueghel) (engraving)
- Letters
- Pieter Bruegel de Oudere (credited as Pete Brueghel) (engraving); Robert Crumb
Indexer Notes
Reproduction of a 1559 Bruegel illustration. Centrespread. AKA "The Stone Operation or the Witch of Mallegem"
Top Comedy and Bottom Burlesque
cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- B. N. Duncan (credited as Bruce N. Duncan)
- Pencils
- B. N. Duncan (credited as Bruce N. Duncan)
- Inks
- B. N. Duncan (credited as Bruce N. Duncan)
- Letters
- B. N. Duncan (credited as Bruce N. Duncan)
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Four cartoons about sadomasochism.
Baby Sniggums and Her Daddy
Baby Sniggums and Her Daddy / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- B. N. Duncan (signed as B. N. D.)
- Pencils
- B. N. Duncan (signed as B. N. D.)
- Inks
- B. N. Duncan (signed as B. N. D.)
- Letters
- B. N. Duncan (signed as B. N. D.)
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Baby Sniggums; Baby Sniggums' Daddy
- Synopsis
- Baby Sniggums is spanked
Indexer Notes
Four three-panel strips.
[no title indexed]
illustration / 2 pages
- Script
- B. N. Duncan (credited as Bruce N. Duncan)
- Pencils
- B. N. Duncan (credited as Bruce N. Duncan)
- Inks
- B. N. Duncan (credited as Bruce N. Duncan)
- Letters
- B. N. Duncan (credited as Bruce N. Duncan)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You're wrong to think that women don't ever like unaggressive men
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Popeye; Bluto
- Synopsis
- Approximately thirty-seven drawings, many about sadomasochism.
- Reprints
- from Top Comedy and Bottom Burlesque
- from Tele-Times #22
The Beautiful Experience: The Weirdo Makeover
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Kathy Smeargoo; Suzy Goosmere; Kathy Sukpumpe; Carol Spunksukker
- Synopsis
- Fake ad for "The Weirdo Makeover"
- Reprints
Cute Brat Gets Creamed
photo story / 4 pages
- Script
- Robert Crumb ?
- Pencils
- Gregg Gannon (credited as "Stomp" Ganos) (photographs)
- Inks
- Gregg Gannon (credited as "Stomp" Ganos) (photographs)
- Letters
- Robert Crumb
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- The Bean Sisters: Jenny [photo of Jenny Burger]; Erna Ray (photo of Erna Rae Burger); Dad (photo of Robert Crumb)
- Synopsis
- Jenny has an accident while roller skating.
Indexer Notes
Credits from Jon B. Cooke's The Book of Weirdo (Last Gasp).
High Times Interviews R. Crumb
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Robert Crumb (signed as R. Crumb)
- Pencils
- Robert Crumb (signed as R. Crumb)
- Inks
- Robert Crumb (signed as R. Crumb)
- Letters
- Robert Crumb (signed as R. Crumb)
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Robert Crumb; Tommy
- Synopsis
- A blowhard interviewer goads Crumb into a fit of anger.
- Reprints
- from High Times Magazine (Trans-High Corporation, 1974 series) #27 (November 1977)
-
[Repent! Quit Your Job! Slack Off! The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!]
text article / 4 pages
- Script
- Ivan Stang (credited as Douglass St. Clair Smith)
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- JR "Bob" Dobbs
- Synopsis
- Exhortation to join the Church of the SubGenius.
- Reprints
- from ?
Indexer Notes
All art is appropriated. Reprinted with permission from the Subgenius Foundation.
Remove Ugly Blackheads at No Cost
illustration / 1 page
- Characters
- Jim; Bob
- Reprints
- from ?
Indexer Notes
A classic comic book ad from Ballco Products
Weirdo Jeans
illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Parodies the Brooke Shields Jordache jeans ads from the eighties.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- adult
Indexer Notes
back cover
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[Featuring Etoain Shrdlu]
Etoain Shrdlu -
1.
[Psychic Dominance- How to Rule Others with Your Thoughts]
-
2.
Weirdo the Magazine for Modern Misfits
-
3.
Weirdo's Advice to the Lovelorn
Weirdo's Advice to the Lovelorn -
4.
TV Blues
Etoain Shrdlu -
5.
Suburban Cowgirls
-
6.
[Zermatism]
-
7.
The Witch Of Malleghem
Old Timers -
8.
Top Comedy and Bottom Burlesque
-
9.
Baby Sniggums and Her Daddy
Baby Sniggums and Her Daddy -
10.
["You're wrong to think that women don't ever like unaggressive men"]
-
11.
The Beautiful Experience: The Weirdo Makeover
-
12.
Cute Brat Gets Creamed
-
13.
High Times Interviews R. Crumb
-
14.
[Repent! Quit Your Job! Slack Off! The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!]
-
15.
Remove Ugly Blackheads at No Cost
-
16.
Weirdo Jeans
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Peter Croome
- Gregory Fischer
- Mike Nielsen
- Steven Samuels
- Jim Van Dore
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