It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken [Second Printing]

(February 2002)

Drawn & Quarterly, 1996 Series

Published in English (Canada) Canada

Price: ?
Pages: 200
On-sale Date: 2002
Indicia / Colophon Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly Publications
Brand: ?
ISBN: 1-896597-33-5
Barcode: ?
Printer: Printed in China

Editing: ?

Color: colour
Dimensions: 15.1 cm x 22.8 cm
Binding: squarebound softcover
Publishing Format: one-shot

Issue Notes

The second printing hardcover states that the softcover second print date is February 2002 (ISBN 1896597335). However, there is a standalone second printing softcover that gives April 2003 (ISBN 189659770X) as the date. Unclear at this time if a misprint is involved with either of these.
This issue is a variant of It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken (Drawn & Quarterly, 1996 series) . There exist further variants:

It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken (Drawn & Quarterly, 1996 series) [Third Printing]

Cover Thumbnail for It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken (Drawn & Quarterly, 1996 series) [Second Printing]

Cover Thumbnail for It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken (1996 series)

Edit cover

comic story / 25 pages (report information)

Script: Seth
Pencils: Seth
Inks: Seth
Colors: Seth
Letters: Seth

Characters

Seth; Boris (cat); Chet; Ruthie (not identified); Seth's mother; Stephen

Reprints

from Palooka-Ville (Drawn & Quarterly, 1991 series) #4 (December 1993)

comic story / 25 pages (report information)

Script: Seth
Pencils: Seth
Inks: Seth
Colors: Seth
Letters: Seth

Characters

Seth; Boris (cat); Chet; Ruthie

Reprints

from Palooka-Ville (Drawn & Quarterly, 1991 series) #5 (May 1994)

comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script: Seth
Pencils: Seth
Inks: Seth
Colors: Seth
Letters: Seth

Characters

Seth; Chet; Ruthie

Reprints

from Palooka-Ville (Drawn & Quarterly, 1991 series) #6 (November 1994)

comic story / 25 pages (report information)

Script: Seth
Pencils: Seth
Inks: Seth
Colors: Seth
Letters: Seth

Characters

Seth; Andar (in a comic book); Annie; Kenny (flashback); Turok (in a comic book)

Reprints

from Palooka-Ville (Drawn & Quarterly, 1991 series) #7 (April 1995)

comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script: Seth
Pencils: Seth
Inks: Seth
Colors: Seth
Letters: Seth

Characters

Seth; Boris (cat); Chet; Ruthie; Seth's mother; Stephen

Reprints

from Palooka-Ville (Drawn & Quarterly, 1991 series) #8 (December 1995)

comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script: Seth
Pencils: Seth
Inks: Seth
Colors: Seth
Letters: Seth

Characters

Seth; Susan Pettier

Reprints

from Palooka-Ville (Drawn & Quarterly, 1991 series) #9 (June 1996)

comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script: Seth
Pencils: Seth (signed as Kalo)
Inks: Seth (signed as Kalo)
Letters: Seth; typeset

Indexer Notes

Purportedly 11 examples occupying a page each of Kalo's panels from Modern Mechanix (May 1937), Collier's (May 1947), Cartoon Laughs (Fall 1948) (3 panels), The Saturday Evening Post (January 1951), The New Yorker (April 1951), Esquire (Ootober 1954), Gee-Whiz (September 1956), Weekend Magazine (1961) and Popular Cartoons (June 1978).

text article / 2 pages (report information)

Script: Seth
Pencils: various
Inks: various
Letters: typeset

Indexer Notes

Glossary of the comic creators and characters referred to in the story.

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script: Seth
Pencils: ? (photograph)
Inks: ? (photograph)
Letters: Seth

Characters: Kalo (photograph)

Indexer Notes

Photograph of Kalo in New York.

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script: Seth
Pencils: ? (photograph)
Inks: ? (photograph)
Letters: typeset

Genre: biography
Characters: Seth (photograph)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script: various
Pencils: Seth (illo)
Inks: Seth (illo)
Colors: Seth
Letters: typeset

Characters: Seth (illo)

Indexer Notes

Outside back cover.

Editing

View Change History

Issue at my.comics.org

Related Scans

None

Table of Contents

1. Part One
2. Part Two
3. Part Three
4. Part Four
5. Part Five
6. Part Six
7. The Famous Eleven
8. Glossary
9. [untitled]
10. [untitled]
11. It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken

This issue was modified by

Domingos Isabelinho
Steven Samuels

If you believe any of this data to be incorrect, please let us know.

Cover thumbnails are used for identification purposes only. All rights to cover images reserved by the respective copyright holders.

All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.

The GCD Privacy Policy. The GCD Web Site code is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken [Second Printing]

(February 2002)

Issue Notes

Part One (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 25 pages (report information)

Part Two (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 25 pages (report information)

Part Three (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Part Four (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 25 pages (report information)

Part Five (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Part Six (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 24 pages (report information)

The Famous Eleven (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

Glossary (Table of Contents: 8)

text article / 2 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

[untitled] (Table of Contents: 9)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

[untitled] (Table of Contents: 10)

text article / 1 page (report information)

It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken (Table of Contents: 11)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken [Second Printing] (February 2002)

Issue Notes

Part One (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 25 pages (report information)

Part Two (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 25 pages (report information)

Part Three (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Part Four (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 25 pages (report information)

Part Five (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Part Six (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 24 pages (report information)

The Famous Eleven (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

Glossary (Table of Contents: 8)

text article / 2 pages (report information)

Indexer Notes

[untitled] (Table of Contents: 9)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

[untitled] (Table of Contents: 10)

text article / 1 page (report information)

It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken (Table of Contents: 11)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken [Second Printing]

(February 2002)