The Comics Journal
#204
(May 1998)
Fantagraphics,
1977 Series
- Price
- 5.95 USD; 7.95 CAD
- Pages
- 116
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fantagraphics Books Inc.
- Barcode
- 074470741145 05
- Editing
- Gary Groth (credited) (editor); Tom Spurgeon (credited) (executive editor); Mark Vick (credited) (art director); Jordan Raphael (credited) (editor-at-large)
Issue Notes
Cover by Spain. Interviews with Spain Rodriguez (Part 1) and Shannon Wheeler. Obituaries for Alex Schomburg and Lee Elias. Letters from Mike Richardson, Mort Todd, Jim Lowe, Andrew J. Porter, and Marc Arsenault.
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.
[Human Oddities]
In Other Words / cartoon / 0.2 page
- Script
- Tony Slad (credited as Slad)
- Pencils
- Tony Slad (credited as Slad)
- Inks
- Tony Slad (credited as Slad)
- Letters
- Tony Slad (credited as Slad)
- Synopsis
- A carnival sideshow features a "Female Comic Book Fan" as one of its attractions.
A Walk on the Wilder Side: The Spain Rodriguez Interview Part 1
about comics / 35 pages
- Script
- Spain Rodriguez (credited) (interviewee); Gary Groth (credited) (interviewer)
- Pencils
- Spain Rodriguez (credited)
- Inks
- Spain Rodriguez (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Manuel "Spain" Rodriguez (Nobody calls him Manuel) is unique even among his fellow underground cartoonists.
- Pages
- 48 - 82
Indexer Notes
Interview with Spain Rodriguez, conducted by Gary Groth in four sessions in the months of January and March 1998.
"The Only Redeemable Coupon in Life Is Action!"
about comics / 18 pages
- Script
- Shannon Wheeler (credited) (interviewee); Tom Spurgeon (credited) (introduction); Marc Arsenault (credited) (interviewer)
- Pencils
- Shannon Wheeler (credited)
- Inks
- Shannon Wheeler (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- An Interview with Shannon Wheeler
- Pages
- 83 - 100
Indexer Notes
Interview with Shannon Wheeler, conducted by Marc Arsenault. Introduction by Tom Spurgeon.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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1.
[Human Oddities]
In Other Words -
2.
A Walk on the Wilder Side: The Spain Rodriguez Interview Part 1
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3.
"The Only Redeemable Coupon in Life Is Action!"
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- Merlin Haas
- Steven Samuels
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