The Comics Journal
#185
(March 1996)
Fantagraphics,
1977 Series
- Price
- 5.95 USD; 7.95 CAD
- Pages
- 132
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fantagraphics Books Inc.
- Barcode
- 074470741145 03
- Editing
- Gary Groth (credited) (editor); Tom Spurgeon (credited) (managing editor); Pat Moriarity (credited as Patrick Moriarity) (art director); John F. Ronan (credited) (news editor)
Issue Notes
Cover collage by Steve Bissette. Interviews with Steve Bissette and Don Rosa (Part III). Obituaries for Jesus Blasco and Jack Abel. Letters from Paul Mavrides, Robert Boyd, Rich Johnston, and William Sherman.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
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in Comic Book Creator (TwoMorrows Publishing, 2013 series) #28 (Spring 2022) [Cover reprint.]
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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.
[no title indexed]
In Other Words / cartoon / 0.5 page
- Script
- Rich Tommaso (credited)
- Pencils
- Rich Tommaso (credited)
- Inks
- Rich Tommaso (credited)
- Letters
- Rich Tommaso (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Get yer copies of Bill & Ted's Comics here!
- Synopsis
- A fan looks at sign on the door that says "New York Comic Con Cancelled! Scheduled to have appeared Evan Dorkin & Barry Blair."
Indexer Notes
A New York Comics Con scheduled for March was cancelled at the last minute with no notice because con officials had not submitted plans for the event to New York Coliseum officials.
Steve Bissette: Back to the Drawing Board
about comics / 55.2 pages
- Script
- Stephen R. Bissette (credited as Steve Bissette) (interviewee); Kim Thompson (credited) (interviewer)
- Pencils
- Stephen R. Bissette (credited as Steve Bissette)
- Inks
- Stephen R. Bissette (credited as Steve Bissette)
- Letters
- typeset
- Pages
- 42 - 99
Indexer Notes
Interview with Steve Bissette, conducted by Kim Thompson in late February (1995? Year not listed) and copy-edited by Bissette and Thompson.
[Taboo #1 (1988) Cover]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 0.3 page
- Pencils
- Stephen R. Bissette (signed as
SRBissette [long T]) - Inks
- Stephen R. Bissette (signed as SRBissette [long T])
- Letters
- Ron Zalme (credited) (logo design)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Sin's Breakfast
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Taboo (Spiderbaby Grafix & Publications, 1988 series) #1 (Fall 1988) [black and white]
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[Dr. Wirtham's Comix & Stories #5/6 Flip Cover]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 0.5 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Rick Veitch (signed as
Veitch); Stephen R. Bissette (signed as Bissette) - Inks
- Rick Veitch (signed as Veitch); Stephen R. Bissette (signed as Bissette)
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- W-Wirtham was... RIGHT!
- Reprints
- from Dr. Wirtham's Comix & Stories (Clifford Neal, 1976 series) #5/6 (Winter 1980 [Late 1980]) [black and white]
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- Keywords
- adult
Indexer Notes
When printed here in black and white, part of the background that was printed only in red ink, does not show up.
But It Did: It Happened
about comics / 12 pages
- Script
- Don Rosa (credited) (interviewee); R. C. Harvey (credited) (interviewer)
- Pencils
- various
- Inks
- various
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Don Rosa (photograph); Uncle Scrooge; Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie
- Pages
- 101 - 111
Indexer Notes
Title refers to Rosa's dream of writing the "Life of Scrooge." Part III of interview with Don Rosa, conducted by R. C. Harvey in December 1995. Also includes a "foreward" from R. C. Harvey interviewing Rosa in February and December 1992, which is presented in less-formal interview format.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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1.
["Get yer copies of Bill & Ted's Comics here!"]
In Other Words -
2.
Steve Bissette: Back to the Drawing Board
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3.
[Taboo #1 (1988) Cover]
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4.
[Dr. Wirtham's Comix & Stories #5/6 Flip Cover]
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5.
But It Did: It Happened
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- Steven Samuels
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