Raw #6

([May] 1984)

Raw Books, 1980 Series

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Volume: 1
Price: 5.00 USD; 6.50 CAD
Pages: 112
Indicia Frequency: Published about twice a year
On-sale Date: 1984-05-10
Indicia / Colophon Publisher: Raw Books & Graphics

Editing: Art Spiegelman; Françoise Mouly

Issue Notes

The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing.

Indicia: "RAW is published about twice a year by RAW BOOKS & GRAPHICS, 27 Greene Street, NYC, N.Y. 10013. It is not published by or connected with Real Art Ways (RAW) INK (INC.) or any other organization.

Entire contents © 1984 by Raw Books & Graphics unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. We are not responsible for unsolicited submissions. Send only non-returnable photocopies.

Publisher: Françoise Mouly; Design & Production: Françoise Mouly; Aides: Kristin Barnet; Tomas Bunk; Kevin Hein; Paul Karasik; Mark Newgarden

SPECIAL THANKS TO: Andrew Baum, Judy Funk, Bob Guglielmo, Mark Michaelson and Daniel Shapiro.; PRINTING: Malmar Graphics, Inc., NYC; BINDING: Dependable Bindery, NYC"

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: Mark Beyer
Inks: Mark Beyer
Colors: Françoise Mouly

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Cover gallery

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: Комар и Меламид (Komar and Melamid) (painting); D. James Dee (photo)
Inks: Комар и Меламид (Komar and Melamid) (painting); D. James Dee (photo)
Colors: Комар и Меламид (Komar and Melamid) (painting); D. James Dee (photo)

Indexer Notes

A 1981-82 painting. "Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts."

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Letters: typeset

Indexer Notes

title page; table of contents; indicia and production credits; a list of other RAW publications; several dozen small illustrations taken from the interior contents

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script: Mark Beyer
Pencils: Mark Beyer
Inks: Mark Beyer
Letters: Mark Beyer

Characters: Tony

Anton Makasarr / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script: Joost Swarte
Pencils: Joost Swarte
Inks: Joost Swarte
Letters: Joost Swarte

Characters

Anton Makasarr; Pierre; Kid

Reprints

from ? (1978)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script: Saudin bin Labutau (credited as Bin Labutau)
Pencils: Art Spiegelman (signed as Spieg.)
Inks: Art Spiegelman (signed as Spieg.)
Letters: typeset

Indexer Notes

Text excerpt from the book “In Search of Eden” (Mentor Books, 1981) accompanied by a full-page background illustration

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Justin Green
Pencils: Justin Green
Inks: Justin Green
Letters: Justin Green

Reprints

in Justin Green's Binky Brown Sampler (Last Gasp, 1995 series) (1995)

comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script: Carlos Sampayo; Françoise Mouly (translation); Michele Curel (translation); Kristin Barnet (translation)
Pencils: José Muñoz
Inks: José Muñoz
Letters: Phil Felix

Characters

H.H. Kuntz; Walker; Lisa; Heinz

Reprints

from (À Suivre) (Casterman, 1977 series) #77 (Juin 1987)

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: Rick Gallagher; Paul Karasik; Charles Burns; Mark Newgarden; Art Spiegelman; Mark Michaelson; Tom Bunk
Inks: Rick Gallagher; Paul Karasik; Charles Burns; Mark Newgarden; Art Spiegelman; Mark Michaelson; Tom Bunk
Colors: ?
Letters: typeset

Indexer Notes

Fourteen small ads designed by the listed artists for the following (from NYC unless otherwise noted): Danceteria; House Party; Village Comic Shop; Todd's; Hake's Americana & Collectibles (York, PA); Lynda Barry's “Big Ideas” book; Rhythm and Romance swing band; Hot House; Impulse magazine; Independent Publications (Chicago, ILL); Razzamatazza Catalog (Charlottesville, VA); Mark Marek's New Wave Comics; Gunther Graphics; Top-Drawer Rubber Stamp Co. (Hancock, VT)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script: Jayr Pulga
Pencils: Jayr Pulga
Inks: Jayr Pulga
Letters: Jayr Pulga

Characters: Brother; Mom; Dad

illustration / 2 pages (report information)

Pencils: Ever Meulen
Inks: Ever Meulen
Colors: ?

Indexer Notes

This is the magazine's centerspread. Meulen is credited here with both with his name and his "Eddy Flippo" pseudonym.

Jack Survives / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script: Jerry Moriarty
Pencils: Jerry Moriarty (painting)
Inks: Jerry Moriarty (painting)
Letters: Jerry Moriarty (painting)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

After that- I need a glass of water. I need a plumber.

Characters

Jack Moriarty; Plumber

Reprints

in Raw One-Shot (Raw Books, 1982 series) #3 - Jack Survives (1984)
in The Complete Jack Survives (Buenaventura Press, 2009 series) ([August] 2009)

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: Rick Gallagher; Paul Karasik; Mark Michaelson; Charles Burns; Mark Newgarden; Tom Bunk; Art Spiegelman
Inks: Rick Gallagher; Paul Karasik; Mark Michaelson; Charles Burns; Mark Newgarden; Tom Bunk; Art Spiegelman
Colors: ?
Letters: typeset

Indexer Notes

Fifteen small comic-panel size ads designed by the listed artists for the following (from NYC unless otherwise noted): Anarcoma (Catalan Communications); Wayside Music (Wheaton, MD); Trash and Vaudeville; Soho Zat; Eastern Artists; “M” a Clothing Store (New Haven, CT); Tilden – Foley Gallery (New Orleans); Goods Department Store Inc. (Boston, MA); Detail; Rube Goldberg: A Retrospective; Lambiek (Holland); Clothing Warehouse; Printed Matter; Lifecafe; Modern Girls

Maus, A Survivor's Tale / comic story / 36 pages (report information)

Script: Art Spiegelman
Pencils: Art Spiegelman
Inks: Art Spiegelman
Letters: Art Spiegelman

Characters

Art Spiegelman; Françoise Mouly; Vladek; Mala; Cousin; Doctor Orens; Friend of the Family; Lolek; Anja; Uncle Persis; Mashka; Tosha; Bibi; Lonia; Richiev; Jakov Spiegelman; Haskel; Sergeant; Miloch; Ben; Pesach

Reprints

from Short Order Comix (Head Press [1970s], 1973 series) #1 (1973) [Prisoner of Hell Planet story only]
in Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Pantheon, 1986 series) #1 (1986), #1 (1986)
in Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Pantheon, 1986 series) #1 ([August 19] 1986)

in Maus (Brombergs, 1987 series) #[1]
in Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Penguin, 1992 ? series) #1
in Maus (Cappelen, 1987 series) (1987)
in Maus - Vertelling van een overlevende (A.W. Bruna & Zoon, 1987 series) #[1] (1987)
in Maus: Relato de un Superviviente (NORMA Editorial, 1989 series) #[nn] (1989)
in Maus - Die Geschichte eines Überlebenden (Rowohlt, 1989 series) #1 (Mai 1989)

in Maus - Die Geschichte eines Überlebenden (Rowohlt, 2005 series) #1 (2005)
in Die vollständige Maus (S. Fischer Verlag, 2008 series) (2008)

in Die vollständige Maus (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2010 series) (2010)

in Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Scholastic, 1992 series) #1 - My Father Bleeds History (October 1992)
in Maus I & II Historia til ein overlevande (Cappelen, 1993 series) (1993)
in Maus, vertelling van een overlevende (Oog & Blik, 1994 series) #1 (1994)
in Maus (Brombergs, 1996 series) #[nn] (1996)
in The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Pantheon, 1997 series) ([January] 1997)
in Maus: Opowieść ocalałego (Post, 2001 series) #1 - Mój ojciec krwawi historią (2001)
in Maus: Relato de un superviviente (Planeta DeAgostini, 2001 series) (noviembre 2001)
in Maus: Relat d'un Supervivent (Inrevés Edicions, 2003 ? series) (2003)
in Maus: Zgodba o preživetju (Založba ZRC, 2003 series) #1 - Krvava zgodovina mojega očeta (2003)
in Maus - De volledige editie (Oog & Blik, 2004 series) (2004)
in Maus: Zgodba o preživetju (Založba ZRC, 2006 series) (2006)
in Maus (Brombergs, 1996 series) #[nn] [Andra upplagan] (2009)
in Maus (Cappelen Damm, 2009 series) ([november] 2009)
in The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale [25th Anniversary Edition] (Random House, 2011 series) (October 2011)
in Maus. Povestea unui supravieţuitor (Editura Art, 2012 series) ([mai] 2012)
in Маус [Maus] (Corpus, 2013 series) ([ноября] 2013)

Indexer Notes

Pgs. 88-119. A 9” x 6” (22.86 cm x 15.24 cm) saddle-stitched insert bound to the magazine. The story includes all four pages of Spiegelman's “Prisoner of Hell Planet.”

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script: Art Spiegelman
Pencils: Art Spiegelman
Inks: Art Spiegelman
Letters: Art Spiegelman

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Juden Ravs!

Indexer Notes

A reversed panel from pg. 105 of the booklet

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script: Ben Katchor (signed as B. Katchor)
Pencils: Ben Katchor (signed as B. Katchor)
Inks: Ben Katchor (signed as B. Katchor)
Letters: Ben Katchor (signed as B. Katchor)

Characters: Maurice Kandel; Doctor Okrutnay

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Mark Fisher
Pencils: Mark Fisher
Inks: Mark Fisher
Letters: Mark Fisher

comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script: Charles Burns
Pencils: Charles Burns
Inks: Charles Burns
Letters: Charles Burns

Characters

John Dough; Lydia; Miss Holburn

Reprints

in U-Comix (Kunst der Comics / Alpha, 1984 series) #69 (1986), #70 (1986)
in Schwermetall präsentiert (Kunst der Comics / Alpha, 1986 series) #3 - Charles Burns - El Borbah (1987)
in Skin Deep (Penguin, 1992 series) (1992)
in Fidus (No Comprendo Press, 1993 series) #4 (mai 1994)
in Skin Deep (Fantagraphics, 2001 series) (July 2001)
in Fleur de Peau (Cornélius, 2005 series) (avril 2005) [avec 4 pages de plus]
in Skin Deep (Fantagraphics, 2009 series) (May 2009)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script: Marc Caro; Art Spiegelman (translation); Françoise Mouly (translation)
Pencils: Marc Caro
Inks: Marc Caro
Letters: Françoise Mouly

Pud + Spud / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script: Mark Newgarden
Pencils: Mark Newgarden
Inks: Mark Newgarden
Letters: Mark Newgarden

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Where's the puffed wheat?

Characters

Pud; Spud

Reprints

in The Best Comics of the Decade (Fantagraphics, 1990 series) #1 (June 1990)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Josh Friedman
Pencils: Drew Friedman
Inks: Drew Friedman
Letters: Drew Friedman

Characters

Lou Costello Jr.; Lou Costello; Bud Abbott; Jimmy Durante

Synopsis

Another sampling of Friedman's pitch black humor. A story told from the point of view of Lou Costello's dead baby son.

Reprints

Jimbo / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script: Gary Panter
Pencils: Gary Panter
Inks: Gary Panter
Letters: Gary Panter

First Line of Dialogue or Text

How can it be taking the ambulances so long to get here!!??

Characters

Jimbo; Smoggo

Reprints

Krazy Kat / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: George Herriman
Pencils: George Herriman
Inks: George Herriman
Letters: George Herriman

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The sun fills the desert with heat, and Mr. & Mrs. Joshua with slumber

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Krazy Kat; Ignatz

Reprints

from Krazy Kat Sunday (King Features Syndicate)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: Pascal Doury (painting)
Inks: Pascal Doury (painting)
Colors: Pascal Doury (painting)

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: Jerry Moriarty (painting)
Inks: Jerry Moriarty (painting)
Colors: Jerry Moriarty (painting)
Letters: typeset

Characters

Jack

Synopsis

Jack thinks of painting a canvas while painting a chair.

Reprints

in Raw One-Shot (Raw Books, 1982 series) #3 - Jack Survives (1984)

Indexer Notes

Back cover contains a nearly full-page illustration with a brief blurb about the school.

Editing

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Series Information

Table of Contents

0. The Graphix Magazine That Overestimates the Taste of the American Public
1. Bolsheviks Returning Home After a Demonstration
2. Raw 6
3. Nothing
4. Modern Art
Anton Makasarr
5. An Aborigine Among the Skyscrapers
6. Bad Money
7. Tenochtitlan
8. Advertisements
9. Nectar of the Gods
10. Use the Mood of the Past to Rewire Your Brain For the Future!
11. ["After that- I need a glass of water. I need a plumber."]
Jack Survives
12. Advertisements
13. Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Chapter Five): Mouse Holes
Maus, A Survivor's Tale
14. ["Juden Ravs!"]
15. The Polly Seed Expert
16. Zombie Shock
17. A Marriage Made in Hell
18. Humor Me
19. ["Where's the puffed wheat?"]
Pud + Spud
20. The Lou Costello Jr. Story
21. ["How can it be taking the ambulances so long to get here!!??"]
Jimbo
22. ["The sun fills the desert with heat, and Mr. & Mrs. Joshua with slumber"]
Krazy Kat
23. Maman Que J'aime [I Love My Mommy]
24. School of Visual Arts

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Raw #6 ([May] 1984)

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The Graphix Magazine That Overestimates the Taste of the American Public (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Bolsheviks Returning Home After a Demonstration (Table of Contents: 1)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Raw 6 (Table of Contents: 2)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Nothing (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Modern Art (Table of Contents: 4)

Anton Makasarr / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

An Aborigine Among the Skyscrapers (Table of Contents: 5)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Bad Money (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Tenochtitlan (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Advertisements (Table of Contents: 8)

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Nectar of the Gods (Table of Contents: 9)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Use the Mood of the Past to Rewire Your Brain For the Future! (Table of Contents: 10)

illustration / 2 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

Jack Survives / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Advertisements (Table of Contents: 12)

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Chapter Five): Mouse Holes (Table of Contents: 13)

Maus, A Survivor's Tale / comic story / 36 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 14)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

The Polly Seed Expert (Table of Contents: 15)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Zombie Shock (Table of Contents: 16)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

A Marriage Made in Hell (Table of Contents: 17)

comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Humor Me (Table of Contents: 18)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 19)

Pud + Spud / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

The Lou Costello Jr. Story (Table of Contents: 20)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 21)

Jimbo / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 22)

Krazy Kat / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Maman Que J'aime [I Love My Mommy] (Table of Contents: 23)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

School of Visual Arts (Table of Contents: 24)

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Raw #6

([May] 1984)