Weirdo #5

(Spring 1982)

They Need Your Designer Jeans (Table of Contents)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Josh Allan Friedman

Pencils:

Drew Friedman

Inks:

Drew Friedman

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Synopsis:

Fake fundraising ad

Reprints:

• in Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental (Fantagraphics, 1986 series) #[nn] (July 1986)
• in Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #[nn] [3rd printing & up] (September 1986)
• in Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental: An Anthology of Comic Art 1979-1985 (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #[nn] (February 2012)

["Bud Abbott made his final stage appearance in 1974 at the old actors home in Los Angeles."] (Table of Contents)

Laugh Makers / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Drew Friedman

Pencils:

Drew Friedman

Inks:

Drew Friedman

Letters:

Drew Friedman

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Bud Abbott; Joe DeRita; Oliver Hardy; Fred Quimby; Doodles Weaver; Jimmy Nelson; Danny O'Day; Farfel

Synopsis:

False biographical oddities about comedians in their advanced old age.

Reprints:

• in Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental (Fantagraphics, 1986 series) #[nn] (July 1986)
• in Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #[nn] [3rd printing & up] (September 1986)
• in The New Comics Anthology (Macmillan Publishing, 1991 series) #[nn] (1991)
• in Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental: An Anthology of Comic Art 1979-1985 (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #[nn] (February 2012)

Weirdo's Advice to the Lovelorn (Table of Contents)

Weirdo's Advice to the Lovelorn / letters page / 0.29 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Terry Zwigoff [as Prof T.E. Zwigoff]

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Prof T.E. Zwigoff [photo of Terry Zwigoff]

Weirdo Number 5 (Table of Contents)

letters page / 1.41 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Crumb

Pencils:

Robert Crumb (masthead drawing)

Inks:

Robert Crumb (masthead drawing)

Letters:

Robert Crumb

Content Information

Reprints:

• in The Complete Crumb Comics (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #14 - The Early '80s & Weirdo Magazine (November 2001) [masthead drawing]

Indexer Notes

Includes letters from Dawn Martin (Seattle, WA), Larry Adler (NY, NY), R.F. McAteer, John King (NY, NY), J.H. Szostek (Leeds, UK), Steve Replogle (Grant, CO), Big Red, Kim Deitch, Steven Dover (NY, NY), Ron Evry (Fredericksburg, VA), Ole Askholm (Brandon, Manitoba).

Somebody Help Me! (Table of Contents)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.3 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Crumb

Letters:

Robert Crumb

Content Information

Characters:

Robert Crumb (photo)

Indexer Notes

Ad for back issues of this magazine. Accompanied by a small ad for Robert Armstrong's Couch Potato Movement newsletter, "The Tuber's Voice."

Unsung Heroes in the History of Humour (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Various

Pencils:

Various; William Steig

Inks:

Various; William Steig

Letters:

Various

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Synopsis:

Assorted old cartoons and gags, most of them anonymous.

Indexer Notes

Includes approximately twenty-six illustrations.

Professor Brainard Admonishes His Nephew Maynard (Table of Contents)

Professor Brainard / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Harry S. Robins

Pencils:

Harry S. Robins

Inks:

Harry S. Robins

Letters:

Harry S. Robins

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Professor Brainard

Synopsis:

Rhyme about the perils of youth

The Space Case (Table of Contents)

Professor Brainard / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Harry S. Robins

Pencils:

Harry S. Robins

Inks:

Harry S. Robins

Letters:

Harry S. Robins

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Professor Brainard

Synopsis:

Cautionary rhyme about spreading our bad habits elsewhere

Indexer Notes

Although a page in length, this is stretched over a double page spread with the strip below.

Professor Brainard Encounters Lemurman (Table of Contents)

Professor Brainard / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Harry S. Robins

Pencils:

Harry S. Robins

Inks:

Harry S. Robins

Letters:

Harry S. Robins

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Professor Brainard

Synopsis:

The Professor meets Lemurman

Indexer Notes

Although a page in length, this is stretched over a double page spread with the strip above.

The Hucksters (Table of Contents)

Professor Brainard / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Harry S. Robins

Pencils:

Harry S. Robins

Inks:

Harry S. Robins

Letters:

Harry S. Robins

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Professor Brainard

Synopsis:

The Professor rails against greed

Indexer Notes

Although a page in length, this is stretched over a double page spread with the strip below.

A Dissertation On Creation (Table of Contents)

Professor Brainard / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Harry S. Robins

Pencils:

Harry S. Robins

Inks:

Harry S. Robins

Letters:

Harry S. Robins

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Professor Brainard

Synopsis:

A rhyming rant against creationists

Indexer Notes

Although a page in length, this is stretched over a double page spread with the strip above.

Peter Makes the Scene (Table of Contents)

Peter the Penis / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Terry Boyce

Pencils:

Terry Boyce

Inks:

Terry Boyce

Letters:

Terry Boyce

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Synopsis:

Peter is introduced to other women

Ricky Dickner's Manic Activity Book (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Tom ?; Craig ?

Pencils:

Tom ?; Craig ?

Inks:

Tom ?; Craig ?

Letters:

Tom ?; Craig ?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Ricky Dickner

Synopsis:

The fate of wildman Ricky Dickner

Indexer Notes

Strip credited only to "Tom -n- Craig."

She Jumped On Her Pushbike and Pedalled Away! (Table of Contents)

photo story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

? (photo)

Inks:

? (photo)

Letters:

Robert Crumb

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Aline Kominsky-Crumb (photo)

Synopsis:

The pleasures of cycling

Reprints:

• in Need More Love A Graphic Memoir (MQ Publications, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

Indexer Notes

Photostrip adapting an old song lyric

The Pen Is (Table of Contents)

text article / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Clifford Neal [as Oisif Egaux]

Pencils:

Clifford Neal

Inks:

Clifford Neal

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Ad for Dr. Wirtham's Comix & Stories.

The Old Songs are the Best Songs (Table of Contents)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Crumb

Pencils:

Robert Crumb

Inks:

Robert Crumb

Letters:

Robert Crumb

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Synopsis:

Humourous adaptations of old song lyrics

Reprints:

• in R. Crumb Draws the Blues (Knockabout, 1992 series) #[nn] (1992)
• in R. Crumb Draws the Blues (Last Gasp, 1993 series) #[nn] (1993)
• in The Complete Crumb Comics (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #14 - The Early '80s & Weirdo Magazine (November 2001)
• in Klassiker der Comic-Literatur (Frankfurter Allgemeine, 2005 series) #19 (2006), #19 (2006), #19 (2006), #19 (2006)

I Became the Slave of the Wild Girls of Putah Creek (Table of Contents)

photo story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

M. Jan Garrison (photo); Carol Engberg (photo)

Inks:

M. Jan Garrison (photo); Carol Engberg (photo)

Letters:

Robert Crumb

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Synopsis:

An explorer is captured by jungle amazons

Macedonio #268314 (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Macedonio Garcia

Pencils:

Macedonio Garcia

Inks:

Macedonio Garcia

Letters:

Macedonio Garcia

Content Information

Genre:

biography

Synopsis:

Life in a Texas prison

Keywords:

autobiography

Indexer Notes

This sequence includes the following stories and illustrations: "Contoones;" "Tales from the Inside- "Cultured Criminals;" "Tales from the Inside- Shitter Time;" "The Rebellion"

Punch-A-Bunch (Table of Contents)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Aline Kominsky-Crumb

Pencils:

Aline Kominsky-Crumb

Inks:

Aline Kominsky-Crumb

Letters:

Aline Kominsky-Crumb

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Synopsis:

Fake ad for a roll-back doll

Weirdo License (Table of Contents)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Crumb [as R. Crumb] (signed)

Pencils:

Robert Crumb [as R. Crumb] (signed)

Inks:

Robert Crumb [as R. Crumb] (signed)

Colors:

Robert Crumb [as R. Crumb] (signed)

Letters:

Robert Crumb [as R. Crumb] (signed)

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Etoain Shrdlu

Synopsis:

Official Weirdo certificate

Reprints:

• in The Complete Crumb Comics (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #14 - The Early '80s & Weirdo Magazine (November 2001)

Indexer Notes

back cover