Buzz #2

(February 1991)

Gasa-Gasa (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Garret Izumi (signed as Izumi)

Pencils

Garret Izumi (signed as Izumi)

Inks

Garret Izumi (signed as Izumi)

Letters

Garret Izumi (signed as Izumi)

Buzz Issue Number Two (Table of Contents: 2)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Mark Landman

Pencils

Mark Landman (digital artwork)

Inks

Mark Landman (digital artwork)

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Production credits and indicia accompanied by table of contents and a single illustration

Buzzwords (Table of Contents: 3)

letters page / 1.5 pages (report information)

Script

Mark Landman

Pencils

Mark Landman (digital artwork)

Inks

Mark Landman (digital artwork)

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Includes letters from Peter Bagge, Daniel Clowes, Tony Thorne (Melbourne, Australia), Jim "Kentucky Fried" Key, Jim Woodring, Juan Oyarzun (Hollywood, CA), Richard Sala. Includes four illustrations, one of them a small Clowes sketch and a masthead illustration.

Lonely Widow Meets Happy Fate (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

Mark Landman

Pencils

Mark Landman (digital artwork)

Inks

Mark Landman (digital artwork)

Letters

Mark Landman

Genre

humor; satire-parody

Characters

Mr. Beal; Betty Thorpe; Rita Thorpe; Edith

Saturday Morning Nuclear Test Pattern Epiphany (Table of Contents: 5)

illustration / 0.5 page (report information)

Pencils

Mack White (signed)

Inks

Mack White (signed)

Letters

Mack White (signed)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

credits, title page / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

Mark Landman ?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Charles Burns has appeared in Heavy Metal, RAW, and the RAW / Pantheon book Hard-Boiled Defective Stories.

Indexer Notes

Brief blurbs on this issue's artist with small-size illustrations taken from the story contents

Naked Snack! (Part 1) (Table of Contents: 7)

The Amazing Meat-Man / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Charles Burns (credited)

Pencils

Charles Burns (credited as C. Burns)

Inks

Charles Burns (credited as Chucky B.)

Letters

Charles Burns (credited)

Genre

humor; satire-parody

Characters

Meat Man; Johnny; Mr. Lieber; Granny; Mr. Xeno; Spokesbeast for the Venusian Meat Liberation Army

Reprints

• in Schwermetall (Kunst der Comics / Alpha, 1984 series) #187/188 ([Februar] 1996)

Captain Wireless (Part 1) (Table of Contents: 8)

Captain Wireless / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Seth Deitch (credited as Ahmed Fishmonger)

Pencils

Seth Deitch (credited as Ahmed Fishmonger)

Inks

Seth Deitch (credited as Ahmed Fishmonger)

Letters

Seth Deitch (credited as Ahmed Fishmonger)

Characters

Captain Wireless; Dr. Forbes

Indexer Notes

The artist's actual last name is mispelled in the table of contents.

Drew Friedman's "Famous for Thirty Seconds" (Table of Contents: 9)

illustration / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Drew Friedman (credited)

Pencils

Drew Friedman (credited)

Inks

Drew Friedman (credited)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor

Characters

Don; Iz; Gus; Joe

Mister 5x5- Big Mob Bust!! (Table of Contents: 10)

A Sleepyhead Tale / comic story / 0.73 page (report information)

Script

Jeremy Eaton (credited)

Pencils

Jeremy Eaton (credited)

Inks

Jeremy Eaton (credited)

Letters

Jeremy Eaton (credited)

Genre

humor

Characters

Mister 5x5; Sleepyhead

By Poplar Demand (Table of Contents: 11)

A Sleepyhead Tale / comic story / 0.73 page (report information)

Script

Jeremy Eaton

Pencils

Jeremy Eaton

Inks

Jeremy Eaton

Letters

Jeremy Eaton

Genre

humor

Characters

Sleepyhead; Power Company Man; Mr. Sig

The Good Life (Table of Contents: 12)

A Sleepyhead Tale / comic story / 1.08 pages (report information)

Script

Jeremy Eaton

Pencils

Jeremy Eaton

Inks

Jeremy Eaton

Letters

Jeremy Eaton

Genre

humor

Characters

Sleepyhead

Indexer Notes

This strip takes up the bottom section of all four pages from this sequence

Daisy Chain (Table of Contents: 13)

A Sleepyhead Tale / comic story / 0.73 page (report information)

Script

Jeremy Eaton

Pencils

Jeremy Eaton

Inks

Jeremy Eaton

Letters

Jeremy Eaton

Genre

humor

Characters

Dad; Sleepyhead

The Story of Doctor Donuthin' (Table of Contents: 14)

A Sleepyhead Tale / comic story / 0.73 page (report information)

Script

Jeremy Eaton

Pencils

Jeremy Eaton

Inks

Jeremy Eaton

Letters

Jeremy Eaton

Genre

humor

Characters

Sleepyhead

The Brutal Love of Abstract Desire (Table of Contents: 15)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

David Myers (signed)

Pencils

David Myers (signed)

Inks

David Myers (signed)

Letters

David Myers (signed)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 16)

Frank and Manhog / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Jim Woodring (signed as J. W.)

Pencils

Jim Woodring (signed as J. W.)

Inks

Jim Woodring (signed as J. W.)

Letters

Jim Woodring (signed as J. W.)

Characters

Frank; Manhog

Synopsis

Frank gets an apple from a tree. He takes it home, opens it with a knife and is horrified to see that he has killed the worm that was inside. He goes outside to yell at the sun and comes back only to see that Manhog has consumed the apple he left on the table.

Reprints

• in The New Comics Anthology (Macmillan Publishing, 1991 series) (1991)
• in The Frank Book (Fantagraphics, 2003 series) ([June] 2003)
• in The Frank Book (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) (2011)
• in The Frank Book (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) (2011)

Indexer Notes

The very first Frank story. Title from the table of contents.

Dobie Zombie (Table of Contents: 17)

Dobie Zombie / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Mark Landman

Pencils

Mark Landman (digital artwork)

Inks

Mark Landman (digital artwork)

Letters

Mark Landman

Genre

humor

Characters

Dobie Zombie; Wayward Z. Bleb; Margo Mongogland; Tank; Lobia Frontal; Vanna Sluthog; Ramon; Imelda Murdo

Indexer Notes

"Credit (or blame) for this story must also be assigned to co-conspirator Jan Landman..."

Visions of Sugar Plums (Table of Contents: 18)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Jasun Huerta

Pencils

Jasun Huerta

Inks

Jasun Huerta

Letters

Jasun Huerta

Genre

humor

Characters

Chip; Melvin; Street Junkie [Floyd]

Ants in the Planets (Table of Contents: 19)

Supersonic Sammy / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Basil Wolverton

Inks

Basil Wolverton

Letters

?

Genre

humor

Characters

Moona; Supersonic Sammy; High Hoohoo of Ploohoo; Goon

Reprints

• from Laugh It Off! (Marvel, 1960 series) #7 (September 1961)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 20) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 4 pages (report information)

[The Vigilant Vigilante of Virtue Strikes Again! / Walter Breenan Rises from the Dead...] (Table of Contents: 21)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script

Mark Landman

Pencils

Mark Landman (digital artwork)

Inks

Mark Landman (digital artwork)

Letters

Mark Landman

Genre

humor

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover- the flip side to the back cover's postcard images

Deviant Postcard Set Number One (Table of Contents: 22)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script

Mark Landman

Pencils

Mark Landman (digital artwork)

Inks

Mark Landman (digital artwork)

Colors

Mark Landman (digital artwork)

Letters

Mark Landman

Genre

humor

Characters

Bettie Page; Walter Brennan

Indexer Notes

Back cover. Two postcards- "Approved by the Comics Code" / "Consarn it Pepino, git me some Tana leaves!"