(May 1995)
Fantagraphics,
1995 Series
Published in English
(United States)
- Price
- 14.95 USD; 19.95 CAD
- Pages
- 140
- On-sale Date
- 1995
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fantagraphics Books Inc.
- Brand
-
Fantagraphics Books [serif, double border]
- ISBN
-
978-1-56097-171-9
- Barcode
- 9781560971719
- Editing
- Mark Thompson (credited) (edited by)
- Color
- Color Cover and Black & White Interior
- Dimensions
- 8.43" x 10.75" (21.4 cm x 27.3 cm)
- Binding
- Softcover
God's Bosom and Other Stories
cover / 1 page
- Script
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Colors
- Jim Woodring
- Letters
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Characters
- Yoyo Pintado
- Reprints
- from Graphic Story Monthly (Fantagraphics, 1990 series) #4 (April 1990)
-
God's Bosom and Other Stories: The Historical Strips of Jack Jackson
credits, title page / 5 pages
- Pencils
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Letters
- Jack Jackson; typeset
Indexer Notes
title page; publisher, production and copyrights credit page; title and publisher page; table of contents pages with a double-page blown-up panel from page twenty-five of the first story.
Introduction
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2 pages
Indexer Notes
Accompanied by three panels- one from page ninety of "The Colt Revolver and the Texas Rangers" story; two from page 128-9 of the "Why Do Texans Hate the Yankees so Much?" story
Part 1. ~ Old Tejas ~
credits, title page / 1 page
- Script
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Letters
- Jack Jackson (signed)
Indexer Notes
Includes a blown-up panel from ? (1991)
Camino Real Comics - The King's Highway Across Texas
comic story / 21 pages
- Script
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Letters
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Genre
- history; western-frontier
- Characters
- Louis XIV; Sieur de La Salle; General Alonso de Leon; Domingo Teran; Saint-Denis; Philip Nolan; Gutierrez; Magee; General Joachin de Arrendondo; Colonel Ignacio Elizondo; Moses Austin; Stephen Austin; Jose; Señor; Pa; President Mirabeau Lamar; Brigadier General John. E. Wool; Claudia Norvell; V.N. Zivley
Indexer Notes
Previously unpublished. Originally intended to be a junior high school educational comic published in conjunction with the Texas Highway Department
God's Bosom
comic story / 16 pages
- Genre
- adventure; historical
- Characters
- Fray Marcos de Mena; Admiral; Pedro Mendez; Captain General; Maria; Don Diego; Lady Isabella; Ramon; Negress; Villager
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Lettering credit from Jaxon's Illustrated Tales #1.
The Good Life
comic story / 12 pages
- Script
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Letters
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Genre
- historical
- Characters
- Yoyo Pintado; Rita Pintado; Rita's Lover [Jaraname Indian Vaquero]
- Reprints
- from Graphic Story Monthly (Fantagraphics, 1990 series) #4 (April 1990)
-
The Savage Within
comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Letters
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Genre
- historical
- Characters
- Placido Gutierrez; Fray Camarena; Rita's Lover [Jaraname Indian Vaquero]; Rita's Daughter; Rita Pintado; Father Garcia; Francisco Rojas; Yoyo Pintado
- Reprints
- from Graphic Story Monthly (Fantagraphics, 1990 series) #5 (May 1990)
-
Possum On a Stick
comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Letters
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Genre
- historical
- Characters
- Yoyo Pintado; Diego Gortari; Sleepy
- Reprints
- from Graphic Story Monthly (Fantagraphics, 1990 series) #6 (June 1990)
-
The Colt Revolver and the Texas Rangers
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Letters
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Genre
- history; western-frontier
- Characters
- John Coffee "Jack" Hays; Svante M. Swenson; John Fuller; Mirabeau B. Lamar; Sam Houston; Samuel Walker; Samuel Colt
Indexer Notes
Previously unpublished.
Nits Make Lice
comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Letters
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Genre
- history; western-frontier
- Characters
- Col. J.M. Chivington; Major Anthony; Capt. Soule; Grey Blanket Smith; Pvt. Louderback; Black Kettle; Elwood
- Reprints
- from Slow Death (Last Gasp, 1970 series) #7 (Winter 1976-77)
-
Part II. ~ Modern Times ~
credits, title page / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Letters
- Jack Jackson (signed)
Indexer Notes
Includes a blown-up panel from ? (1979)
Rip Off Press- The Golden Era
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Letters
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Fred Todd; Gilbert Shelton; Dave Moriaty; Jack Jackson
- Reprints
- from Rip Off Comix (Rip Off Press, 1977 series) #21 (Winter 1988)
-
You Gotta Have a Lotta' Soul.. To Attend a Willie Nelson 4th of July Picnic!
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Letters
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Billy Bob; Neal; Debbie; Local Resident Tick
- Reprints
- from The Austin Sun (July 24 - August 6 1975) ?
Great Moments in Austin Music at Houston Prices: R&B Star Puts it to His Loyal Fans at $10 a Whack
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Letters
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Ol' Freeloader; Massa Dahl
- Reprints
- from ? (1982)
Cozmic Cowboy!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Letters
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Reprints
- from The Austin Sun (March 11, 1976) ?
[no title indexed]
The Rise and Rapid Decline of Austin Tacious / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Way back in 1837 the capital of Texas was a tent city thrown up in a pestilence-ridden bayou area by A.C. Allen
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- A.C. Allen; Sam Houston; Mirabeau B. Lamar
- Reprints
- from The Austin Sun ?
[no title indexed]
The Rise and Rapid Decline of Austin Tacious / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Used to be, approaching Austin from any direction, two and only two monuments broke the flat skyline- one dedicated to...
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Bertha
- Reprints
- from The Austin Sun ?
[no title indexed]
The Rise and Rapid Decline of Austin Tacious / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Then, slowly at first, Austin's skyline began to change. The large-breasted dome and the phallic-tower become lost...
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Money Hungry Developer
- Reprints
- from The Austin Sun ?
[no title indexed]
The Rise and Rapid Decline of Austin Tacious / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Letters
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- No place, no matter how pretty, is sacred to the real estate hustlers- not even Barton Springs, once described as the most beautiful
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Reprints
- from The Austin Sun ? (1977)
Silent Invasion
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Letters
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Clyde; Virgil; Shorty
- Reprints
- from ? (1983)
Why Do Texans Hate Yankees so Much? (Let Me Count the Ways...)
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Letters
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Buddy; Friend; Bug; Mama; Baron de Ripperdaa; Tex
- Reprints
- from ? (1983)
Sutherly Breeze
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Pencils
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Letters
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Virgil; Emma Jo
- Reprints
- from ? (1982)
Oat Willie's Mid-Life Crisis
Oat Willie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Jack Jackson ? (signed); Mariann Wizard (credited as Wizard)
- Pencils
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Letters
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Oat Willie; God Nose; Jesus Christ (one-panel silent cameo)
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Jack Jackson a.k.a. "Jaxon," was born in Pandora, Texas, on May 15, 1941.
Indexer Notes
Brief text bio accompanied from a panel from ?
[Doug Sahm and the Texas Tornados, illustration for "Texas Rock for Country Rollers"]
illustration / 0.43 page
- Pencils
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Jackson (signed)
- Characters
- Doug Sahm; The Texas Tornados
Indexer Notes
On the back cover. From 1976. Made for a T-shirt and poster promoting the titular LP
Editing
Related Scans
Table of Contents
-
0.
God's Bosom and Other Stories
-
1.
God's Bosom and Other Stories: The Historical Strips of Jack Jackson
-
2.
[Jaxon's Illustrated Tales no. 1]
-
3.
Introduction
-
4.
Part 1. ~ Old Tejas ~
-
5.
Camino Real Comics - The King's Highway Across Texas
-
6.
God's Bosom
-
7.
The Good Life
-
8.
The Savage Within
-
9.
Possum On a Stick
-
10.
The Colt Revolver and the Texas Rangers
-
11.
Nits Make Lice
-
12.
Part II. ~ Modern Times ~
-
13.
Rip Off Press- The Golden Era
-
14.
You Gotta Have a Lotta' Soul.. To Attend a Willie Nelson 4th of July Picnic!
-
15.
Great Moments in Austin Music at Houston Prices: R&B Star Puts it to His Loyal Fans at $10 a Whack
-
16.
Cozmic Cowboy!
-
17.
["Way back in 1837 the capital of Texas was a tent city thrown up in a pestilence-ridden bayou area by A.C. Allen"]
The Rise and Rapid Decline of Austin Tacious -
18.
["Used to be, approaching Austin from any direction, two and only two monuments broke the flat skyline- one dedicated to..."]
The Rise and Rapid Decline of Austin Tacious -
19.
["Then, slowly at first, Austin's skyline began to change. The large-breasted dome and the phallic-tower become lost..."]
The Rise and Rapid Decline of Austin Tacious -
20.
["No place, no matter how pretty, is sacred to the real estate hustlers- not even Barton Springs, once described as the most beautiful"]
The Rise and Rapid Decline of Austin Tacious -
21.
Silent Invasion
-
22.
Why Do Texans Hate Yankees so Much? (Let Me Count the Ways...)
-
23.
Sutherly Breeze
-
24.
Oat Willie's Mid-Life Crisis
Oat Willie -
25.
["Jack Jackson a.k.a. "Jaxon," was born in Pandora, Texas, on May 15, 1941."]
-
26.
[Doug Sahm and the Texas Tornados, illustration for "Texas Rock for Country Rollers"]
-
27.
["This collection is drawn from nearly twenty years' work by the well-known cartoonist-historian Jack Jackson."]
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- John DiBello
- Michael Hoskin
- Steven Samuels
- Jim Van Dore
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