"RAW, is published between two and four times a year by RAW BOOKS, 27 Greene Street, NYC, N.Y. 10013, apparently on a non-profit basis. Entire contents ©1981 by Raw Books. All rights reserved. Reproduction is forbidden without prior written permission from the artist or Raw Books."
"Production assistant: Kevin Hein; Editorial Associate: Rick Gallagher
We gratefully acknowledge continuing support from the School of Visual Arts in New York.
This issue's subtitle courtesy of Philip K. Dick.
Typesetting: The Old Typosopher; Cover printing: Hudson Printing Co., Inc., NYC. Interior printing: Malmar Graphics, 55 Van Dam Street, N.Y."
- Pencils:
- Scott Gillis (painting)
- Inks:
- Scott Gillis (painting)
- Colors:
- Scott Gillis (painting)
- Letters:
- typeset
Production credits, indicia, subscription info, brief blurbs and table of contents with tiny illustrations taken from the interior contents
- Pencils:
- Eddy Vermeulen [as Ever Meulen]
- Inks:
- Eddy Vermeulen [as Ever Meulen]
- Letters:
- ?
- Reprints:
Meulen signs the page both with his name and with his "Eddy Flippo" pseudonym.
- Script:
- Gary Panter [as G. Panter] (signed)
- Pencils:
- Gary Panter [as G. Panter] (signed)
- Inks:
- Gary Panter [as G. Panter] (signed)
- Letters:
- Gary Panter [as G. Panter] (signed)
- Characters:
- Jimbo
- Synopsis:
- Jimbo walks the desert by himself in this sendup of Native American wannabes.
- Reprints:
- Script:
- Vesco de Kereven; Christian Roux [as Cathy Millet]; Françoise Mouly (Translation); Art Spiegelman (Translation)
- Pencils:
- Christian Roux [as Cathy Millet]
- Inks:
- Christian Roux [as Cathy Millet]
- Letters:
- typeset
- Synopsis:
- Excerpts from Vesco de Kereven's "On the Adolescent's Solitary Pleasures" are used to mock puritanical ideas on masturbation.
- Reprints:
- Script:
- Carlos Sampayo; Eliette Markbein (Translation); Steve Guarnaccia (Translation)
- Pencils:
- José Antonio Muñoz
- Inks:
- José Antonio Muñoz
- Letters:
- Susan Moore
- Characters:
- Mr. Wilcox; Horace Conrad; Rita; Hilda
- Reprints:
- Script:
- Françoise Mouly
- Pencils:
- Art Young
- Inks:
- Art Young
- Letters:
- typeset
- Synopsis:
- Mouly critiques corporate and consumerist attitudes towards food. The article includes Art Young's "Capitalism" illustration.
- Reprints:
- Script:
- Rod Kierkegaard
- Pencils:
- Rod Kierkegaard
- Inks:
- Rod Kierkegaard
- Letters:
- Typeset
- Characters:
- Pol Pot; Wendy O. Williams (unnamed)
- Synopsis:
- In order to impress Marie Osmond, the bored narrator goes to Bel Air to assassinate Pol Pot. Yes, that Pol Pot.
- Script:
- Javier Mariscal [as Mariscal] (signed)
- Pencils:
- Javier Mariscal [as Mariscal] (signed)
- Inks:
- Javier Mariscal [as Mariscal] (signed)
- Synopsis:
- A lighthearted depiction of an urban automobile crash
- Reprints:
The crash in the story is the magazine's centerspread
- Script:
- Art Spiegelman
- Pencils:
- Art Spiegelman
- Inks:
- Art Spiegelman
- Letters:
- Art Spiegelman
- Characters:
- Art Spiegelman; Vladek; Anja; Stefanska; Father-in-Law; Richiev; Janina
- Reprints:
This sixteen-page insert is 5.25" x 7" (13.33 cm x 17.78 cm)
- Pencils:
- Art Spiegelman
- Inks:
- Art Spiegelman
- Characters:
- Vladek; Anja
A full-page illustration accompanies the brief recap.
- Script:
- Rick Geary
- Pencils:
- Rick Geary
- Inks:
- Rick Geary
- Letters:
- Rick Geary
- Reprints:
This and the following originally appeared in a self-published mini-comic
- Script:
- Rick Geary
- Pencils:
- Rick Geary
- Inks:
- Rick Geary
- Letters:
- Rick Geary
- Reprints:
- Script:
- Rick Geary
- Pencils:
- Rick Geary
- Inks:
- Rick Geary
- Letters:
- Rick Geary
- Reprints:
- Script:
- Carlos Sampayo; Eliette Markbein (Translation); Steve Guarnaccia (Translation)
- Pencils:
- José Antonio Muñoz
- Inks:
- José Antonio Muñoz
- Letters:
- Susan Moore
- Characters:
- Mr. Wilcox; Horace Conrad; Rita; Hilda
- Synopsis:
- Mr. Conrad finds out what Mr. Wilcox is in New York for.
- Reprints:
- Pencils:
- Charles Burns; Art Spiegelman
- Inks:
- Charles Burns; Art Spiegelman
- Letters:
- typeset
Three ads- Subscription and back issue order info for RAW; order info for Spiegelman's "Breakdowns; an ad from The Idle Hour bookstore
- Script:
- Joost Swarte; Françoise Mouly (translation)
- Pencils:
- Eddy Vermeulen [as Ever Meulen]
- Inks:
- Eddy Vermeulen [as Ever Meulen]
- Letters:
- Françoise Mouly
- Genre:
- humor
- Characters:
- Frederico Flegmatico; Zelda
- Script:
- Ben Katchor
- Pencils:
- Ben Katchor
- Inks:
- Ben Katchor
- Letters:
- Ben Katchor
- Characters:
- Ajax Campo; Detective
- Script:
- David Marc
- Pencils:
- Scott Gillis
- Inks:
- Scott Gillis
- Letters:
- typeset
- Synopsis:
- Commentary on America's addiction to oil and the automobile.
A single-column article accompanied by a large illustration
- Script:
- Patricia Caire [as P. Caire] (signed)
- Pencils:
- Patricia Caire [as P. Caire] (signed)
- Inks:
- Patricia Caire [as P. Caire] (signed)
- Letters:
- Patricia Caire [as P. Caire] (signed)
"Adapted from a text by James Barth"
- Script:
- Charles Burns
- Pencils:
- Charles Burns
- Inks:
- Charles Burns
- Letters:
- Charles Burns
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- A comic within a comic. A woman experiences a nightmare after reading a horror comic book story.
- Reprints:
- Script:
- Josef Schwind
- Letters:
- typeset
- Synopsis:
- An experimental photomontage piece involving a baby's obsession with toy model cars.
- Reprints:
- Script:
- Heinz Emigholz; Marcia Bronstein (Translation)
- Pencils:
- Heinz Emigholz
- Inks:
- Heinz Emigholz
- Letters:
- typeset
- Synopsis:
- An experimental text with illustration about sentences that are stuck in the mind.
- Reprints:
- Script:
- Gerry Capelle
- Pencils:
- Gerry Capelle
- Inks:
- Gerry Capelle
- Genre:
- humor
- Reprints:
- Script:
- Charles Burns
- Pencils:
- Charles Burns
- Inks:
- Charles Burns
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Charles Burns
- Characters:
- Dog Boy
- Reprints:
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Back cover