The Comics Journal
#183
(January 1996)
Fantagraphics,
1977 Series
- Price
- 5.95 USD; 7.95 CAD
- Pages
- 132
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fantagraphics Books Inc.
- Barcode
- 074470741145 01
- Editing
- Gary Groth (credited) (editor); Tom Spurgeon (credited) (managing editor); John F. Ronan (credited) (news editor); Pat Moriarity (credited as Patrick Moriarity) (art director)
Issue Notes
Flip covers: front cover by Joe Matt and back cover by Don Rosa, with colors by Rich Tommaso. All text is aligned with front cover. Interviews with Joe Matt, Seth, and Don Rosa. Obituary for L. B. Cole. Sketchbook by Dave Cooper. Letters from R. Crumb (France) (two), Bruce Stengl, Jon Athens, and Daryl Broussard.
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.
[An Exclusive Club]
In Other Words / cartoon / 0.5 page
- Script
- Rich Tommaso (credited) (signed as Tommaso)
- Pencils
- Rich Tommaso (credited) (signed as Tommaso)
- Inks
- Rich Tommaso (credited) (signed as Tommaso)
- Letters
- Rich Tommaso (credited) (signed as Tommaso)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Yo, Brother... Ya got some spare change?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Wolverine
- Synopsis
- Independent artists make fun of Marvel's financial problems.
Joe Matt
about comics / 29 pages
- Script
- Joe Matt (credited) (interviewee); Christopher Brayshaw (credited) (interviewer)
- Pencils
- Joe Matt (credited) (illustrations)
- Inks
- Joe Matt (credited) (illustrations)
- Letters
- typeset
- Pages
- 47 - 75
Indexer Notes
Interview of Joe Matt by Christopher Brayshaw, conducted in Toronto, Canada, in August 1995.
[Joe Matt's Best Friend, Seth]
about comics / 4 pages
- Script
- Seth (credited) (interviewee); Christopher Brayshaw (credited) (interviewer)
- Pencils
- Seth (credited) (illustrations)
- Inks
- Seth (credited) (illustrations)
- Letters
- typeset
- Pages
- 77 - 80
Indexer Notes
Excerpt of interview of Seth by Christopher Brayshaw, conducted in Toronto, Canada, in August 1995.
Don Rosa
about comics / 25 pages
- Script
- Don Rosa (credited) (interviewee); Dana Gabbard (credited) (interviewer)
- Pencils
- Don Rosa (credited) (illustrations)
- Inks
- Don Rosa (credited) (illustrations)
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Donald Duck; Uncle Scrooge; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Captain Kentucky
- Pages
- 82 - 106
Indexer Notes
Part one of an interview of Don Rosa by Dana Gabbard, conducted by telephone on October 16, 1989. The transcript was revised by Rosa and Gabbard in 1993.
When Clash the Titans!
Hey Kids! Comics! / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Robert Boyd (credited)
- Pencils
- Esdé (credited)
- Inks
- Esdé (credited)
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- After him, Snowy!
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Characters
- Tin Tin; Snowy; Captain Haddock; Thomson; Thompson; Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic, The Thing; Invisible Girl]; Galactus
- Synopsis
- Tin Tin and Snowy round a corner and crash into the Thing. The art styles start to switch, with the Tin Tin characters being drawn in Kirby style and the Fantastic Four in Hergé style. The kicker comes in the final panel.
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Table of Contents
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1.
[An Exclusive Club]
In Other Words -
2.
Joe Matt
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3.
[Joe Matt's Best Friend, Seth]
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4.
Don Rosa
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5.
When Clash the Titans!
Hey Kids! Comics!
This issue was modified by
- Merlin Haas
- Steven Samuels
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