Volume: 2
Price: 14.95 USD; 19.95 CAD; 7.99 GBP
Pages: 204
On-sale Date: 1989-07-01
Open Wounds from the Cutting Edge of Commix
Open Wounds from the Cutting Edge of Commix
cover /
1
page
cover /
1
page
| Pencils: | Gary Panter (credited) (painting) Art Spiegelman (inset) |
| Inks: | Gary Panter (credited) (painting) Art Spiegelman (inset) |
| Colors: | Gary Panter (credited) (painting) |
| Letters: | typeset |
Issue Data
- Publisher's Brand:
[penguin in an oval]
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher: ?
- ISBN:
0-14-012265-6
- Barcode: 9780140122657 90000
Indexer Notes
The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing.
Putting the Litter Back into Literature
Putting the Litter Back into Literature
illustration /
1
page
illustration /
1
page
| Pencils: | Ever Meulen (credited) |
| Inks: | Ever Meulen (credited) |
| Colors: | Ever Meulen (credited) |
[Contents]
[Contents]
credits, title page /
2
pages
credits, title page /
2
pages
Indexer Notes
Indicia, table of contents and very short bios of each of the contributors.
Teen Plague
Teen Plague
Big Baby
/
comic story /
21
pages
Big Baby
/
comic story /
21
pages
| Script: | Charles Burns (signed as C. Burns) |
| Pencils: | Charles Burns (signed as C. Burns) |
| Inks: | Charles Burns (signed as C. Burns) |
| Letters: | Charles Burns (signed as C. Burns) |
- Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:
Big Baby
Reprints (3)
in Indexer Notes
This was originally serialized in a number of alt weekly newspapers. Later on it was reprinted as "Big Baby" by Fantagraphics 1999 and by Cornélius in 2003.
Dead Dick
Dead Dick
comic story /
1
page
comic story /
1
page
| Script: | Art Spiegelman (credited) |
| Pencils: | Art Spiegelman (credited) |
| Inks: | Art Spiegelman (credited) |
| Letters: | Art Spiegelman (credited) |
- Genre:satire-parody
Indexer Notes
Existential parody of Dick Tracy.
A Shaggy Ant Story
A Shaggy Ant Story
comic story /
6
pages
comic story /
6
pages
| Script: | Justin Green (signed) |
| Pencils: | Justin Green (signed) |
| Inks: | Justin Green (signed) |
| Letters: | Justin Green (signed) |
- Genre:biography
comic story /
2
pages
comic story /
2
pages
| Script: | Mark Newgarden (credited) |
| Pencils: | Drew Friedman (credited) |
| Inks: | Drew Friedman (credited) |
| Letters: | Drew Friedman (credited) |
- Genre:satire-parody
Indexer Notes
Title appears as a neon sign in the first panel.
The Gurley Family
The Gurley Family
comic story /
1
page
comic story /
1
page
| Script: | Joost Swarte (signed) |
| Pencils: | Joost Swarte (signed) |
| Inks: | Joost Swarte (signed) |
| Letters: | Joost Swarte (signed) |
Poop Deck Mysto Cinema
Poop Deck Mysto Cinema
comic story /
1
page
comic story /
1
page
| Script: | Kaz Prapuolenis (signed as Kaz) |
| Pencils: | Kaz Prapuolenis (signed as Kaz) (painting) |
| Inks: | Kaz Prapuolenis (signed as Kaz) (painting) |
| Colors: | Kaz Prapuolenis (signed as Kaz) (painting) |
| Letters: | Kaz Prapuolenis (signed as Kaz) |
The Glass Thief
The Glass Thief
Amy and Jordan
/
comic story /
3
pages
Amy and Jordan
/
comic story /
3
pages
| Script: | Mark Beyer (credited) |
| Pencils: | Mark Beyer (credited) |
| Inks: | Mark Beyer (credited) |
| Colors: | Mark Beyer (credited) |
| Letters: | Mark Beyer (credited) |
Characters:
Amy; Jordan
[no title indexed]
[no title indexed]
Cowboy Henk
/
comic story /
1
page
Cowboy Henk
/
comic story /
1
page
| Script: | Kamagurka (credited) |
| Pencils: | Herr Seele (signed) |
| Inks: | Herr Seele (signed) |
| Colors: | Robert Sikoryak (credited as R. Sikoryak) |
| Letters: |
- Genre:humor
- First Line of Dialogue or Text:Quick... Not a moment to lose!!!
Characters:
Cowboy Henk
With Margaret Neely as Peg
With Margaret Neely as Peg
text story /
10
pages
text story /
10
pages
| Script: | Tom De Haven (credited) |
| Pencils: | Françoise Mouly (credited) (design) various |
| Inks: | various |
| Letters: | typeset |
Indexer Notes
Various anti-communist images are used for illustration, none credited.
Wild Heart
Wild Heart
comic story /
7
pages
comic story /
7
pages
| Script: | David Holzman (credited as David N. Holzman) |
| Pencils: | David Holzman (credited as David N. Holzman) (woodcuts) |
| Inks: | David Holzman (credited as David N. Holzman) (woodcuts) |
| Colors: | David Holzman (credited as David N. Holzman) (woodcuts) |
Indexer Notes
Wordless comic done in woodcuts.
Inferno Joe
Inferno Joe
comic story /
1
page
comic story /
1
page
| Script: | Robert Sikoryak (credited as R. Sikoryak) |
| Pencils: | Robert Sikoryak (credited as R. Sikoryak) |
| Inks: | Robert Sikoryak (credited as R. Sikoryak) |
| Colors: | Robert Sikoryak (credited as R. Sikoryak) |
| Letters: | Robert Sikoryak (credited as R. Sikoryak) |
- Genre:satire-parody
in Indexer Notes
Parody of Dante's Inferno and Bazooka Joe comics.
Karla in Kommieland
Karla in Kommieland
comic story /
10
pages
comic story /
10
pages
| Script: | Kim Deitch (signed) |
| Pencils: | Kim Deitch (signed) |
| Inks: | Kim Deitch (signed) |
| Letters: | Kim Deitch (signed) |
- Genre:biography; satire-parody
Characters:
Karla; Karla's Mother; John; Senator Joseph McCarthy; Kim Deitch; Gene Deitch
Indexer Notes
Includes one page strip "Little Kimbo in Pinkoland".
comic story /
6
pages
comic story /
6
pages
| Script: | Richard McGuire (credited) |
| Pencils: | Richard McGuire (credited) |
| Inks: | Richard McGuire (credited) |
| Letters: | Richard McGuire (credited) |
- Synopsis:
- The story of a place over time (from 500,957,406,073 BC to 2033 AD) told in overlapping panels.
-
in Piratas do Tietê (Circo Editorial, 1990 series) #14 (Abril 1992) -
in An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons and True Stories (Yale University Press, 2006 series) #[1] ([October] 2006) - in Comic Art (Buenaventura Press, 2006 series) #8 (2008)
-
in Here 1989 (Loose Joints, 2015 series) ([January] 2015) -
in Aquí (Salamandra, 2015 series) ([octubre] 2015) -
in ヒア [Here] (国書刊行会 [KokushoKankokai Inc.], 2016 series) (2016)
-
Reprints (6)
Indexer Notes
Originally set to be published in Bad News #3. Inspired partly by an Art Spiegelman lecture and an experimental comics class at the School of Visual Arts. Inspiration also came from McGuire's first encounter with a Windows computer and from his own family.
An alternate version with different artwork (and in color) was published in Strapazin #59 (2000).
An updated book length version of this story was published in 2014 (Pantheon).
Bulimic
Bulimic
comic story /
8
pages
comic story /
8
pages
| Script: | Kim Thompson (credited) (translation) Marc Villard (credited) |
| Pencils: | Loustal (credited as Jacques Loustal) |
| Inks: | Loustal (credited as Jacques Loustal) |
| Colors: | |
| Letters: | Tom Bunk (credited as Tomas Bunk) |
- from ? (copyright Editions Albin Michel S. A.)
Reprints (0)
Social Butterfly
Social Butterfly
comic story /
3
pages
comic story /
3
pages
| Script: | Krystine Kryttre (signed) |
| Pencils: | Krystine Kryttre (signed) |
| Inks: | Krystine Kryttre (signed) |
| Letters: | Krystine Kryttre (signed) |
Indexer Notes
Dated 1988.
[no title indexed]
[no title indexed]
Cowboy Henk
/
comic story /
1
page
Cowboy Henk
/
comic story /
1
page
| Script: | Kamagurka (credited) |
| Pencils: | Herr Seele (credited) |
| Inks: | Herr Seele (credited) |
| Letters: |
- Genre:satire-parody; humor
- First Line of Dialogue or Text:Congratulations Madame It's a son!!!
comic story /
28
pages
comic story /
28
pages
| Script: | Pascal Doury (credited) |
| Pencils: | Pascal Doury (credited) |
| Inks: | Pascal Doury (credited) |
| Letters: | typeset |
Indexer Notes
Scratchboard drawings, one per page.
Zephyr
Zephyr
comic story /
8
pages
comic story /
8
pages
| Script: | Kim Thompson (credited) (translation) Art Spiegelman (credited as a.S.) (translation) Françoise Mouly (credited as F.M.) (translation) Jerry Kramsky (credited) (translation) Lilia Ambrosi (credited) (translation) |
| Pencils: | Lorenzo Mattotti (credited) |
| Inks: | Lorenzo Mattotti (credited) |
| Colors: | Lorenzo Mattotti (credited) |
| Letters: | Susan Moore (credited) |
- from ? (copyright Editions Albin Michel S. A.)
Reprints (0)
Mauschwitz (Time Flies) : Chapter Eight
Mauschwitz (Time Flies) : Chapter Eight
Maus
/
illustration /
1
page
Maus
/
illustration /
1
page
- Genre:biography; war; non-fiction; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- in Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Pantheon, 1986 series) #2 - And Here My Troubles Began (1991 ?)
- in Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Pantheon, 1986 series) #2 - And Here My Troubles Began (November 1991) [as title page, modified to exclude top logo] which is reprinted
-
Reprints (2)
Indexer Notes
Title page for Maus story in this issue.
Synopsis Chapter Seven
Synopsis Chapter Seven
Maus
/
comic story /
4
pages
Maus
/
comic story /
4
pages
| Script: | Art Spiegelman (credited) |
| Pencils: | Art Spiegelman (credited) |
| Inks: | Art Spiegelman (credited) |
| Letters: | Art Spiegelman (credited) |
- Genre:biography; war; non-fiction; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Reprints (1)
Indexer Notes
26 pages of Chapter Seven reprinted at 9 original pages per reprinted page.
[no title indexed]
[no title indexed]
Maus
/
comic story /
34
pages
Maus
/
comic story /
34
pages
| Script: | Art Spiegelman (credited) |
| Pencils: | Art Spiegelman (credited) |
| Inks: | Art Spiegelman (credited) |
| Letters: | Art Spiegelman (credited) |
- Genre:biography; war; non-fiction; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- First Line of Dialogue or Text:Time flies...
- in Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Pantheon, 1986 series) #2 - And Here My Troubles Began (1991 ?)
- in Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Pantheon, 1986 series) #2 - And Here My Troubles Began (November 1991) [as chapter 2] which is reprinted
-
in Maus - Vertelling van een overlevende (A.W. Bruna & Zoon, 1987 series) #2 -
in Maus (Brombergs, 1987 series) #II (1992) - in Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Penguin, 1992 ? series) #2 - And Here My Troubles Began (1992)
-
in Maus - Die Geschichte eines Überlebenden (Rowohlt, 1989 series) #2 (September 1992) which is reprinted - in Maus - Die Geschichte eines Überlebenden (Rowohlt, 2005 series) #2 (2005)
- in Die vollständige Maus (S. Fischer Verlag, 2008 series) (2008) which is reprinted
-
in Maus I & II Historia til ein overlevande (Cappelen, 1993 series) (1993) - in Maus, vertelling van een overlevende (Oog & Blik, 1994 series) #2 (1994)
- in Maus (Brombergs, 1996 series) #[nn] (1996)
- in The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Pantheon, 1997 series) ([January] 1997)
-
in Maus: Opowieść ocalałego (Post, 2001 series) #2 - I tu się zaczęły moje kłopoty (2001) - in Maus: Relato de un superviviente (Planeta DeAgostini, 2001 series) (noviembre 2001)
- in Maus: Relat d'un Supervivent (Inrevés Edicions, 2003 ? series) (2003)
-
in Maus: Zgodba o preživetju (Založba ZRC, 2003 series) #2 - In tu so se začele moje težave (2003) - in Maus - De volledige editie (Oog & Blik, 2004 series) (2004)
- in Maus: Zgodba o preživetju (Založba ZRC, 2006 series) (2006)
- in Maus (Brombergs, 1996 series) #[nn] [Andra upplagan] (2009)
- in Maus (Cappelen Damm, 2009 series) ([november] 2009)
- in The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale [25th Anniversary Edition] (Random House, 2011 series) (October 2011)
-
in Maus. Povestea unui supravieţuitor (Editura Art, 2012 series) ([mai] 2012) -
in Маус [Maus] (Corpus, 2013 series) ([ноября] 2013)
-
Reprints (2)
Rough Sea
Rough Sea
The Garriris
/
comic story /
8
pages
The Garriris
/
comic story /
8
pages
| Script: | Javier Mariscal (signed as Mariscal) Deborah Bonner (credited) (translation) |
| Pencils: | Javier Mariscal (signed as Mariscal) |
| Inks: | Javier Mariscal (signed as Mariscal) |
| Colors: | Javier Mariscal (signed as Mariscal) Robert Sikoryak (credited as R. Sikoryak) |
| Letters: | Javier Mariscal (signed as Mariscal) Robert Sikoryak (credited as R. Sikoryak) |
Indexer Notes
Includes multiple strips, possibly reprinted from various locations.
Public Baths
Public Baths
comic story /
4
pages
comic story /
4
pages
| Script: | |
| Pencils: | Baru (credited) |
| Inks: | Baru (credited) |
| Letters: | Robert Sikoryak (credited as R. Sikoryak) |
- from ? [European]
Reprints (0)
A Nightmare Scare
A Nightmare Scare
Powerhouse Pepper
/
comic story /
6
pages
Powerhouse Pepper
/
comic story /
6
pages
| Script: | Basil Wolverton (signed as Basil Freakbeak Wolverton) |
| Pencils: | Basil Wolverton (signed as Basil Freakbeak Wolverton) |
| Inks: | Basil Wolverton (signed as Basil Freakbeak Wolverton) |
| Letters: | Basil Wolverton (signed as Basil Freakbeak Wolverton) |
- Genre:humor; satire-parody
Characters:
Powerhouse Pepper
Reprints (1)
The Smell on Exterior Street
The Smell on Exterior Street
comic story /
20
pages
comic story /
20
pages
| Script: | Ben Katchor (credited) |
| Pencils: | Ben Katchor (credited) |
| Inks: | Ben Katchor (credited) |
| Letters: | Ben Katchor (credited) |
Few Are Chosen
Few Are Chosen
comic story /
1
page
comic story /
1
page
| Script: | Edward Sorel (signed) |
| Pencils: | Edward Sorel (signed) |
| Inks: | Edward Sorel (signed) |
| Letters: | Edward Sorel (signed) |
- Genre:satire-parody
Characters:
John Barrymore; Gary Cooper; John Updike
- Synopsis:
- How some famous people failed at being cartoonists.
The Single-Minded Pursuit of More
The Single-Minded Pursuit of More
illustration /
1
page
illustration /
1
page
| Script: | Georganne Deen (credited) |
| Pencils: | Georganne Deen (credited) (painting) |
| Inks: | Georganne Deen (credited) (painting) |
| Colors: | Georganne Deen (credited) (painting) |
| Letters: | typeset |
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover.
Editing
Table of Contents
-
Open Wounds from the Cutting Edge of Commix
-
Putting the Litter Back into Literature
-
[Contents]
-
Teen Plague
Big Baby -
Dead Dick
-
A Shaggy Ant Story
-
Reds
-
The Gurley Family
-
Poop Deck Mysto Cinema
-
The Glass Thief
Amy and Jordan -
["Quick... Not a moment to lose!!!"]
Cowboy Henk -
With Margaret Neely as Peg
-
Wild Heart
-
Inferno Joe
-
Karla in Kommieland
-
Here
-
Bulimic
-
Social Butterfly
-
["Congratulations Madame It's a son!!!"]
Cowboy Henk -
Paul
-
Zephyr
-
Mauschwitz (Time Flies) : Chapter Eight
Maus -
Synopsis Chapter Seven
Maus -
["An epic story told in tiny pictures..."]
Maus -
["Time flies..."]
Maus -
Rough Sea
The Garriris -
Public Baths
-
A Nightmare Scare
Powerhouse Pepper -
The Smell on Exterior Street
-
Few Are Chosen
-
Putting the Litter Back into Literature
-
The Single-Minded Pursuit of More
-
["Raw will rearrange your head."]
Related Links
Issue was modified by, among others
- Pat Conolly
- Peter Croome
- R. S. Martin
- Mark Q
- Steven Samuels
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Stangas
- Matt Tauber
- Jim Van Dore
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