Weirdo
#18
(Fall 1986)
Last Gasp,
1981 Series
- Price
- 2.50 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Adults Only
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Last Gasp
- Brand
-
Last Gasp Eco-Funnies
- ISBN
-
0-86719-174-0
- Editing
- Aline Kominsky-Crumb (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
Aline Kominsky-Crumb's first issue as editor. Cover pastiches womens magazines. 1st printing: ? (2.50 USD); 2nd printing: ? (3.95 USD)
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
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Glitz to Go
Didi Glitz / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- DiDi Glitz; Josephine Jo-Jo Jones; Brent Trent; Persephone Feldman
- Synopsis
- Rundown of assorted fashions
- Reprints
-
in True Glitz (Rip Off Press, 1990 series) (1990) - in Glitz-2-Go (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) (January 2012)
-
A Warning from Peter Bagge
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Peter Bagge
- Synopsis
- Bagge repents for his editorial stint
- Reprints
Weirdo number 18
letters page / 1.65 pages
- Script
- Aline Kominsky-Crumb
- Pencils
- William Clark; Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Eric Freeman
- Inks
- William Clark; Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Eric Freeman
- Letters
- Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Robert Crumb
Indexer Notes
A masthead drawing by Clark. Aline and Eric Freeman each contribute small spot illustrations. R. Crumb letters the reader letters- Kevin Dixon (Chapel Hill, NC); Joanne Hackett; Michael Bifulco; Karen Paperno (Austin, TX); Scott Semans (Seattle).
[no title indexed]
Mode O'Day / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Pencils
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Inks
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Letters
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- They say opportunity knocks but once and you'd better grab it while you can!!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Mode O'Day; Mara; Doggy; Porpy; Alison; Scott; Jerry Wombat; Darlene
- Synopsis
- Mode is offered a bit part in a film. She then hosts an "intimate gathering" to celebrate this.
- Reprints
-
in El Víbora (Ediciones La Cúpula, 1979 series) #122 - in Obras Completas Crumb (Ediciones La Cúpula, 1985 ? series) #4 - Mode O'Day (1991)
- in The Complete Crumb Comics (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #16 - The Mid-1980s: More Years of Valiant Struggle (July 2002)
- in R. Crumb The Weirdo Years: 1981-'93 (Last Gasp, 2013 series) (2013)
-
- Keywords
- adult
The Second Time Around
Binky Brown / text story / 4 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Binky Brown; Sharon; Jack Wolf; Ray
- Synopsis
- Binky meets a fellow signpainter in a bar, and offers to help him out
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Story accompanied by four small illustrations. Binky Brown is Green's autobiographical pseudonym
I Remember the Sixties
East Texas / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- biography
- Synopsis
- Childhood recollections of Texas
- Keywords
- autobiography
Deep Thoughts from My Kitchen
The Bunch / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Aline Kominsky-Crumb
- Pencils
- Aline Kominsky-Crumb
- Inks
- Aline Kominsky-Crumb
- Letters
- Aline Kominsky-Crumb
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- The Bunch [Aline Kominsky-Crumb]; Sophie Crumb; Robert Crumb
- Synopsis
- Aline's daily routine
- Reprints
- in Love That Bunch (Fantagraphics, 1990 series) (July 1990)
-
in Love That Bunch (Drawn & Quarterly, 2018 series) (May 2018)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
What Big Girls Are Made Of
Didi Glitz / illustration / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Didi Glitz
- Synopsis
- Commentary on female accoutrements
- Reprints
- in The New Comics Anthology (Macmillan Publishing, 1991 series) (1991)
- in Glitz-2-Go (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) (January 2012)
-
Cleanliness is Next to Dogliness!!
Tona-Toons / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Dori Seda; Tona the Dog; Dracula
- Synopsis
- Life with Tona
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
Big Bitch / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This is about as much fun as french kissing the "Alien
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Big Bitch; Asquith; Mal-Ocula; Nasty Elaine; Senator; Globaco Representative
- Synopsis
- Big Bitch steals the formula for Coke.
- Reprints
- in She Comics: An Anthology of Big Bitch (Last Gasp, 1993 series) (August 1993)
-
4 Red Brides
comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Carol Tyler (signed)
- Pencils
- Carol Tyler (signed)
- Inks
- Carol Tyler (signed)
- Letters
- Carol Tyler (signed)
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Carol Ann [Carol Tyler]
- Synopsis
- How art became an escape
- Keywords
- autobiography
The Schlep Set
The Bunch / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Aline Kominsky-Crumb
- Pencils
- Aline Kominsky-Crumb
- Inks
- Aline Kominsky-Crumb
- Letters
- Aline Kominsky-Crumb
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- The Bunch [Aline Kominsky-Crumb]; Robert Crumb; Sophie Crumb; Didier; The Fru-Fru; Dominique
- Synopsis
- A trip to France
- Reprints
- in Love That Bunch (Fantagraphics, 1990 series) (July 1990)
- in Love That Bunch (Drawn & Quarterly, 2018 series) (May 2018)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
The Valmor Story
text article / 6 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Text article about a hunt for 1930s Valmor advertising and sales material. Illustrated with approximately twenty-three images of labels and ads. In b&w except for the back cover. Monte Beauchamp did an article on the same subject in Blab! #8 (1995).
Editing
This Issue is currently being edited by
Steven Samuels
(since 2024-04-12,
last edit 2024-04-12)
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Ew, what a low-life name for a magazine!! Can't we change the name??"]
Mode O'Day -
1.
Glitz to Go
Didi Glitz -
2.
A Warning from Peter Bagge
-
3.
Weirdo number 18
-
4.
Ruptured? You Poor Schmuck!
-
5.
["They say opportunity knocks but once and you'd better grab it while you can!!"]
Mode O'Day -
6.
The Second Time Around
Binky Brown -
7.
I Remember the Sixties
East Texas -
8.
Deep Thoughts from My Kitchen
The Bunch -
9.
What Big Girls Are Made Of
Didi Glitz -
10.
Cleanliness is Next to Dogliness!!
Tona-Toons -
11.
["This is about as much fun as french kissing the "Alien"]
Big Bitch -
12.
Big City
-
13.
4 Red Brides
-
14.
The Schlep Set
The Bunch -
15.
The Valmor Story
This issue was modified by, among others
- Mike Nielsen
- Steven Samuels
- Jim Van Dore
- Luther Weaver
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