The Comics Journal
#156
(February 1993)
Fantagraphics,
1977 Series
- Price
- 4.95 USD; 5.95 CAD
- Pages
- 116
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fantagraphics Books Inc.
- Barcode
- 074470741145 03
- Editing
- Gary Groth (credited) (editor); Carole Sobocinski (credited as Carole D. Sobocinski) (managing editor); Robert Boyd (credited) (assistant managing editor); Dale Yarger (credited) (art director)
Issue Notes
Cover by Gahan Wilson. Interviews with Gahan Wilson and Doug Allen. Obituary for Peyo [Pierre Culliford]. Sketchbook by Mark Martin. No letters.
The individual issues of this series are each less than 50% comics. Only comics sequences are indexed and cover scans are accepted only if the issue has 10% indexed comics content.
Master of the Macabre: Gahan Wilson
about comics / 22.1 pages
- Script
- Gahan Wilson (credited) (interviewee); Dennis Daniel (credited) (interviewer)
- Pencils
- Gahan Wilson (credited)
- Inks
- Gahan Wilson (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- Pages
- 42 - 71
Indexer Notes
An interview with Gahan Wilson, conducted by Dennis Daniel.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.3 page
- Script
- Gahan Wilson (signed as
Gahan Wilson) - Pencils
- Gahan Wilson (signed as Gahan Wilson)
- Inks
- Gahan Wilson (signed as Gahan Wilson)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I wish you'd learn to use the service entrance!
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A butler admonishes a man carrying a bundle that appears to contain a body.
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.33 page
- Script
- Gahan Wilson (signed as Gahan Wilson)
- Pencils
- Gahan Wilson (signed as Gahan Wilson)
- Inks
- Gahan Wilson (signed as Gahan Wilson)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- We're here, Harry!
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A woman in a hotel room talks to her husband, who is packed away in a trunk.
- Reprints
- from Playboy (Playboy, 1953 series) # ? (1959?)
Indexer Notes
Identified from reprint in "Classic Cartoons from Playboy #1960."
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- Gahan Wilson (credited)
- Pencils
- Gahan Wilson (credited)
- Inks
- Gahan Wilson (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I don't like the looks of your face, Mac!
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- An extremely ugly man accosts a man at a bar.
- Reprints
- from ?
Indexer Notes
Cutline is on the facing page margin, not on the same page as the cartoon.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.15 page
- Script
- Gahan Wilson (signed as
Gahan Wilson (stacked)) - Pencils
- Gahan Wilson (signed as Gahan Wilson (stacked))
- Inks
- Gahan Wilson (signed as Gahan Wilson (stacked))
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Damn it -- I told them I was too well known for undercover work!
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Dick Tracy
- Synopsis
- Dick Tracy is easily captured by criminals while trying to go under cover.
- Reprints
- from Playboy (Playboy, 1953 series) # ?
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Harry, I really think you ought to go to the doctor.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- In an understatement, a wife talks to her husband, whose head has turned into that of a monster, as they walk down the street.
- Reprints
-
from Playboy (Playboy, 1953 series) #v15#11 (November 1968) [black and white]
-
Indexer Notes
Original was in full-color.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.4 page
- Script
- Gahan Wilson (signed as Gahan Wilson)
- Pencils
- Gahan Wilson (signed as Gahan Wilson)
- Inks
- Gahan Wilson (signed as Gahan Wilson)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Funny thing. Eddie was always sure a meteor would get him.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- While walking down a city street, a man is hit by a meteor.
- Reprints
- from Fantasy and Science Fiction # ?
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.15 page
- Script
- Gahan Wilson (signed as Gahan Wilson)
- Pencils
- Gahan Wilson (signed as Gahan Wilson)
- Inks
- Gahan Wilson (signed as Gahan Wilson)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Thank God!
- Genre
- humor; science fiction
- Synopsis
- A little man in a helmet, on display as "Bosco the Man from Mars" at a carnival, welcomes the arrival of a flying saucer.
- Reprints
- from Fantasy and Science Fiction # ?
[no title indexed]
Nuts / comic story / 0.33 page
- Script
- Gahan Wilson (signed as Gahan Wilson)
- Pencils
- Gahan Wilson (signed as Gahan Wilson)
- Inks
- Gahan Wilson (signed as Gahan Wilson)
- Letters
- Gahan Wilson (signed as Gahan Wilson)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You think that being a little kid was great?
- Genre
- humor; children
- Synopsis
- The little boy is sick and imagines what will happen to him if he dies.
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.2 page
- Script
- Gahan Wilson (signed as Gahan Wilson (stacked))
- Pencils
- Gahan Wilson (signed as Gahan Wilson (stacked))
- Inks
- Gahan Wilson (signed as Gahan Wilson (stacked))
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- On the other hand, if I'm dead, so what!
- Synopsis
- A man comes to a depressing conclusion while attempting suicide.
- Reprints
- from ?
- Keywords
- suicide
Idiot of the Savant-Garde: Doug Allen
about comics / 11 pages
- Script
- Doug Allen (credited) (interviewee); John Kelly (credited) (interviewer)
- Pencils
- Doug Allen (credited)
- Inks
- Doug Allen (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- Pages
- 78 - 88
Indexer Notes
Interview with Doug Allen, conducted by John Kelly.
[no title indexed]
comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Hunt Emerson (signed as Hunt Emerson)
- Pencils
- Hunt Emerson (signed as Hunt Emerson)
- Inks
- Hunt Emerson (signed as Hunt Emerson)
- Letters
- Hunt Emerson (signed as Hunt Emerson)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ah --- Angoulême!! How well I recall...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Hunt Emerson
- Synopsis
- Hunt Emerson's memories of Angoulême 1992 and a proposal for a fanciful contest based on an historical event that happened there in 1806.
These Gauls are Crazy!!
comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Colin Upton
- Synopsis
- Colin Upton's memories of Angoulême 1992.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- autobiography
in My Trip to France
comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Roberta Gregory (signed as Roberta Gregory)
- Pencils
- Roberta Gregory (signed as Roberta Gregory)
- Inks
- Roberta Gregory (signed as Roberta Gregory)
- Letters
- Roberta Gregory (signed as Roberta Gregory)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Why do you choose to work in black and white?
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Roberta Gregory; Donna Barr (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Roberta Gregory's memories of her trip to France and Angoulême 1992.
Angoulême: Select Memories of Donna Barr
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Donna Barr (signed as Donna Barr)
- Pencils
- Donna Barr (signed as Donna Barr)
- Inks
- Donna Barr (signed as Donna Barr)
- Letters
- Donna Barr (signed as Donna Barr)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The mayor's reception in the town hall (Comics got respect)!
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Donna Barr; Colin Upton; Robert Gregory; Kim Thompson (cameo); Robert Crumb
- Synopsis
- Donna Barr's memories of her trip to Angoulême 1992.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
1.
Master of the Macabre: Gahan Wilson
-
2.
["I wish you'd learn to use the service entrance!"]
-
3.
["We're here, Harry!"]
-
4.
["I don't like the looks of your face, Mac!"]
-
5.
["Damn it -- I told them I was too well known for undercover work!"]
-
6.
["Harry, I really think you ought to go to the doctor."]
-
7.
["Funny thing. Eddie was always sure a meteor would get him."]
-
8.
["Thank God!"]
-
9.
["You think that being a little kid was great?"]
Nuts -
10.
["On the other hand, if I'm dead, so what!"]
-
11.
Idiot of the Savant-Garde: Doug Allen
-
12.
["Ah --- Angoulême!! How well I recall..."]
-
13.
These Gauls are Crazy!!
-
14.
My Trip to France
-
15.
Angoulême: Select Memories of Donna Barr
This issue was modified by
- Peter Croome
- Merlin Haas
- Katy Hayhurst
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