Jizz
#6
(August 1991)
Fantagraphics,
1991 Series
- Price
- 2.25 USD; 2.95 CAD
- Pages
- 28
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1991
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fantagraphics Books Inc.
- Brand
- Fantagraphics Books [Non-Standard] [generic]
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
The cover month of publication (July) contradicts the indicia. Comic contains considerable text content. First printing: July 1991; Print run: 1800 copies
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Script
- Scott Russo (signed as Steinman Goldfarberg)
- Pencils
- Scott Russo (signed as Steinman Goldfarberg)
- Inks
- Scott Russo (signed as Steinman Goldfarberg)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Scott Russo (signed as Steinman Goldfarberg)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hello
- Genre
- biography
Spreading Warmth and Joy Since 1990
illustration / 1 page
- Characters
- Scott Russo
Indexer Notes
With indicia at bottom
Editorial
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- Scott Russo (credited as Scotte Russow); John Donne (credited)
- Pencils
- Scott Russo (credited as Scotte Russow)
- Inks
- Scott Russo (credited as Scotte Russow)
- Letters
- Scott Russo (credited as Scotte Russow)
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Russo rants against John Donne's "No Man is an Island"
Hey Kids! Time to Play Alienate Your Publisher
text article / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Scott Russo
- Synopsis
- Russo mocks the blurb for Jizz #6 in the June 1991 Fantagraphics "Coming Attractions" flyer. A small-size image of the rejected cover for this issue is also included.
Al Hackendola (Fictitious Teacher of a Certain Fictitious Art School's Cartooning Dept.)
comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Scott Russo; Fanboy; Al Hackendola
- Synopsis
- Comments on artistic integrity and the work ethic involved in mainstream comics
- Keywords
- Rant
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- Scott Russo
- Pencils
- ? (photo)
- Inks
- ? (photo)
- Letters
- Scott Russo
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- God, I'm so horny... I wish I could find a fat bitter comic artist who would sleep with me.
- Characters
- James Brady (photo); Michael Dukakis (photo); George Plimpton (photo); Dan Rather (photo); Bryant Gumbel (photo); Jane Pauley (photo); Willard Scott (photo)
- Synopsis
- Nine blurbs combined with assorted photos
The Magic Eightball
comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Woman; Dog; The President
- Synopsis
- Assorted inexplicable happenings and comments
Indexer Notes
Pastiche of Eightball
Kooky!
illustration / 1 page
- Synopsis
- Four text clippings and a few illustrations from oddball publications, most of them racist
Indexer Notes
"Special thanks to Jim Blanchard for sharing this material with me"
PBS Roundtable Discussion
illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Synopsis
- Discussion about AIDS
State of New Hampshire - Live Free or Die
illustration / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Glenn Westrom (photo collage)
- Inks
- Glenn Westrom (photo collage)
- Letters
- typeset
[no title indexed]
text article / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I went to see a doctor about two years ago. He wasn't your ordinary M.D.
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Scott Russo; Doctor; Chiropractor
- Synopsis
- A strange experience at a doctor's office.
To Anyone Who Gives a Shit I Have the Following Mini-Comics for Sale
advertisement / 1 page
- Characters
- Scott Russo
Indexer Notes
Russo offers his mini-comics for sale: "The Manic Depressive" (1988); "The Manic Depressive" (2nd printing, 1991); "True Gossip" (1991); "Front-Line Lust" (1991); "Rights? What are Those?"
Gilligan's Island (A Heavily Symbolic Allegory for the Human Condition)
text story / 1 page
- Script
- Scott Russo
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Synopsis
- "A play in one act"
The World's Angriest Cartoonist
Scott Russo / comic story / 1 page
- Characters
- Scott Russo
- Synopsis
- Scott doesn't like the books he bought
- Keywords
- Rant
[no title indexed]
text story / 1 page
- Script
- Scott Russo; ?
- Letters
- Scott Russo; typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- If you've ever worked for the city you surely know about all the odd drawings and jokes that get passed around...
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Russo shows a humorous "Astrological Sign Analysis" horoscope he found on the office fax machine.
[no title indexed]
text story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The door slams shut loudly behind me as I climb the cracked stone staircase to the street.
Indexer Notes
Accompanied by a single illustration
Scott Russo's Jizzbag
letters page / 3 pages
Indexer Notes
Letters from Justin Boise, Karin Falcone, George Maranville (a.k.a. Brother George), Laurence Sutherland, Cynthia McGarvie, J.J. Garland, Tamara and "Your Loving Daughter"
Etc.
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- Scott Russo
- Pencils
- ? (photo)
- Inks
- ? (photo)
- Letters
- Scott Russo
- Characters
- George Herbert Walker Bush (photo); Gary Groth (photo); Ed Sullivan (photo)
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Step one: repeat: the art director is your friend... the art director is your friend...
- Characters
- Scott Russo
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Hello"]
-
1.
Spreading Warmth and Joy Since 1990
-
2.
Editorial
-
3.
Hey Kids! Time to Play Alienate Your Publisher
-
4.
Al Hackendola (Fictitious Teacher of a Certain Fictitious Art School's Cartooning Dept.)
-
5.
["God, I'm so horny... I wish I could find a fat bitter comic artist who would sleep with me."]
-
6.
The Magic Eightball
-
7.
Actual Dreams I've Had
-
8.
Kooky!
-
9.
PBS Roundtable Discussion
-
10.
State of New Hampshire - Live Free or Die
-
11.
["I went to see a doctor about two years ago. He wasn't your ordinary M.D."]
-
12.
To Anyone Who Gives a Shit I Have the Following Mini-Comics for Sale
-
13.
Gilligan's Island (A Heavily Symbolic Allegory for the Human Condition)
-
14.
The World's Angriest Cartoonist
Scott Russo -
15.
More Guns Less Nuns
-
16.
["If you've ever worked for the city you surely know about all the odd drawings and jokes that get passed around..."]
-
17.
["The door slams shut loudly behind me as I climb the cracked stone staircase to the street."]
-
18.
The Classifieds
-
19.
Scott Russo's Jizzbag
-
20.
Etc.
-
21.
["Step one: repeat: the art director is your friend... the art director is your friend..."]
-
22.
[Lincoln]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Peter Croome
- Gregory Fischer
- Katy Hayhurst
- Steven Samuels
- Jim Van Dore
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