The Comics Journal
#165
(January 1994)
Fantagraphics,
1977 Series
- Price
- 4.95 USD; 5.95 CAD
- Pages
- 116
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fantagraphics Books Inc.
- Barcode
- 074470741145 01
- Editing
- Gary Groth (credited) (editor); Scott Nybakken (credited) (managing editor); Dale Yarger (credited) (art director); Thom Powers (credited) (news editor)
Issue Notes
Cover by Matt Wagner, with color by Dale Yarger. Interviews with Matt Wagner and Tom Tomorrow. Obituary for Zack Mosley (with last name misspelled as "Mosely"). Sketchbook by Dan Burr. Letters from Beth Kawasaki, Scott Russo, and Eric Searleman.
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.
Matt Wagner: The Devil and the Need
about comics / 26 pages
- Script
- Matt Wagner (credited) (interviewee); Diana Schutz (credited) (interviewee); Jeremy Pinkham (credited) (interviewer)
- Pencils
- Matt Wagner (credited)
- Inks
- Matt Wagner (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- Pages
- 46 - 72
Indexer Notes
Interview with Matt Wagner and Diana Schutz, conducted by Jeremy Pinkham.
Tom Tomorrow: System Shock
about comics / 14 pages
- Script
- Tom Tomorrow (credited) (interviewee); Gary Groth (credited) (interviewer)
- Pencils
- Tom Tomorrow (credited)
- Inks
- Tom Tomorrow (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- Pages
- 82 - 95
Indexer Notes
Interview with Tom Tomorrow [Dan Perkins], conducted by Gary Groth. Twelve episodes of "This Modern World" comic strip are reprinted, with no dates.
Chris Ware in "From Here to There"
Hey, Kids! Comics! / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- David Collier (signed as Collier)
- Pencils
- David Collier (signed as Collier)
- Inks
- David Collier (signed as Collier)
- Letters
- David Collier (signed as Collier)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- High above Chicago tenement, a mad experiment took place!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Chris Ware
- Synopsis
- Chris Ware invents a time machine that takes him back to 1937 where he is obsessed by then-current popular culture.
Hypocrisy Is Hell
Hey, Kids! Comics! / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- S. A. King (signed)
- Pencils
- S. A. King (signed)
- Inks
- S. A. King (signed)
- Letters
- S. A. King (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- For years I've been drawing strips about greedy Republican sleezeballs.
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Matt Groening
- Synopsis
- Matt Groening suggests to Fox TV executives that they animate "The Simpsons" in the United States, rather than sending it to Taiwan because it's cheaper. He gets the expected response.
Indexer Notes
Note at bottom: "Character designs c 1993 Matt Groening, who obviously had nothing whatsoever to do with this...All rights reserved."
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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1.
Proposal of Indecency
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2.
Matt Wagner: The Devil and the Need
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3.
Tom Tomorrow: System Shock
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4.
Chris Ware in "From Here to There"
Hey, Kids! Comics! -
5.
Hypocrisy Is Hell
Hey, Kids! Comics!
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- Merlin Haas
- Steven Samuels
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