The Comics Journal
#197
(July 1997)
Fantagraphics,
1977 Series
- Price
- 5.95 USD; 7.95 CAD
- Pages
- 100
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fantagraphics Books Inc.
- Barcode
- 074470741145 07
- Editing
- Gary Groth (credited) (editor); Tom Spurgeon (credited) (executive editor); Greg Stump (credited) (news editor); Pat Moriarity (credited) (art director)
Issue Notes
Cover by Wally Wood, colored by Rhea Patton and Pat Moriarity. Special Wally Wood section which includes an English translation of a French interview with Wood from 1977. Interview with Patrick McDonnell. Roundtable discussion with New York City artists Dean Haspiel, Tony Consiglio, Alex Robinson, and Yvonne Mojica. Obituary for Manny Stallman. 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.
Rural Publishing
comic story / 0.75 page
- Script
- Dave Schreiner
- Pencils
- Denis Kitchen (signed as
Kitchen) - Inks
- Denis Kitchen (signed as Kitchen)
- Letters
- Denis Kitchen (signed as Kitchen)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Another day begins ...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Denis Kitchen
- Synopsis
- The life of a comic publisher.
- Reprints
-
from Twist (Kitchen Sink Press, 1987 series) #2 (May 1988)
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Indexer Notes
This reprint is credited being from "KSP: The First 25 Years".
A Thousand Rays in Your Belly: Wally Wood at EC, 1952-54
about comics / 15 pages
- Script
- Bill Mason (credited)
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (credited)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- Synopsis
- An overview of Wally Wood's work at EC in 1952-54, illustrated with panels from his stories.
- Pages
- 44 - 58
When in Doubt, Black It Out
about comics / 2 pages
- Script
- Ralph Reese (credited)
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (credited)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I first met Woody in the summer of 1966, when I was 16.
- Synopsis
- Ralph Reese discusses working in the Wallace Wood Studio.
- Pages
- 59 - 60
Wallace Wood
about comics / 5 pages
- Script
- Wally Wood (credited as Wallace Wood) (interviewee); Fershid Bharucha (credited) (introduction and translator); Jacques Boivin (credited) (interviewer); Bill Mason (credited) (translation of printed interview); Raphael G. Marongiu (credited) (interviewer)
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (credited as Wallace Wood)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (credited as Wallace Wood)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Only a handful of interviews with Wallace Wood are known to exist.
- Pages
- 61 - 65
Indexer Notes
An interview with Wallace Wood, conducted by Jacques Boivin and Raphael G. Marongiu at the Angouleme, France, Comics Festival in 1977. Fershid Bharucha was translator. The interview appeared in the French magazine "Zoom" (May-June 1977). The printed interview was translated from French to English by Bill Mason.
Patrick McDonnell
about comics / 13.25 pages
- Script
- Patrick McDonnell (credited) (interviewee); Peter Huestis (interviewer)
- Pencils
- Patrick McDonnell (credited)
- Inks
- Patrick McDonnell (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- Pages
- 66 - 80
Indexer Notes
Interview with Patrick McDonnell, conducted by Peter Huestis in September 1996.
[Krazy Kat Sunday]
Krazy Kat / comic story / 0.5 page
- Script
- George Herriman (signed as Herriman)
- Pencils
- George Herriman (signed as Herriman)
- Inks
- George Herriman (signed as Herriman)
- Letters
- George Herriman (signed as Herriman)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- All right. Have it your way. The Moon has a circle around it.
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Krazy Kat; Ignatz Mouse; Offissa Pupp
- Synopsis
- Each character sees the halo around the Moon as a different shape.
- Reprints
- from Krazy Kat Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1941-02-22
Indexer Notes
on page 74.
[Mutts Comic Strips]
Mutts / comic story / 1.25 pages
- Script
- Patrick McDonnell (credited)
- Pencils
- Patrick McDonnell (credited)
- Inks
- Patrick McDonnell (credited)
- Letters
- Patrick McDonnell (credited)
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Mooch; Earl
- Reprints
- from Mutts daily (King Features Syndicate) 1996-02-14, 1996-02-17, 1996-07-19, 1996-12-06
- from Mutts Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1996-05-12
Indexer Notes
Illustrating the Patrick McDonnell interview.
Beyond the Grid
about comics / 10.7 pages
- Script
- Dean Haspiel (credited) (interviewee); Tony Consiglio (credited) (interviewee); Alex Robinson (credited) (interviewee); Yvonne Mojica (credited) (interviewee); Jordan Raphael (credited) (interviewer)
- Pencils
- various
- Inks
- various
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Young Cartoonists Roundtable: New York
- Pages
- 81 - 90
Indexer Notes
Third in a series of roundtable interviews with young cartoonists around the country. Panelists are Dean Haspiel, Tony Consiglio, Alex Robinson, and Yvonne Mojica. Jordan Raphael is moderator for the interview which took place in February 1997.
[Billy Dogma #1 Cover]
Billy Dogma / cover reprint (on interior page) / 0.3 page
- Pencils
- Dean Haspiel (signed as Dino)
- Inks
- Dean Haspiel (signed as Dino)
- Letters
- Dean Haspiel (signed as Dino)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Extreme Violence in My Head Is a Warning of Things to Come
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Billy Dogma
- Reprints
- from Billy Dogma (Millennium Publications, 1997 series) #1 (April 1997) [black and white]
-
Indexer Notes
Black and white reprint of a color cover.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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1.
Rural Publishing
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2.
A Thousand Rays in Your Belly: Wally Wood at EC, 1952-54
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3.
When in Doubt, Black It Out
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4.
Wallace Wood
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5.
Patrick McDonnell
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6.
[Krazy Kat Sunday]
Krazy Kat -
7.
[Mutts Comic Strips]
Mutts -
8.
Beyond the Grid
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9.
[Billy Dogma #1 Cover]
Billy Dogma
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- Merlin Haas
- Steven Samuels
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