Weirdo
#4
(February 1982)
Last Gasp,
1981 Series
- Price
- 2.25 USD
- Pages
- 44
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Last Gasp Eco Funnies
- Brand
- Last Gasp Eco-Funnies
- ISBN
-
0-86719-135-X
- Editing
- Robert Crumb
Issue Notes
Cover design resembles early issues of Mad as a Magazine. Letters page includes comments from Gary Panter
1st printing: February 1982 (2.25 USD); 2nd printing: ? (2.25 USD) 10,000 copies
1st printing: February 1982 (2.25 USD); 2nd printing: ? (2.25 USD) 10,000 copies
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Robert Crumb (signed as R. Heronymus Crumb)
- Inks
- Robert Crumb (signed as R. Heronymus Crumb)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Robert Crumb (signed as R. Heronymus Crumb)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Only the Best People Read
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- Keywords
- adult
Weirdo's Advice to the Lovelorn
Weirdo's Advice to the Lovelorn / letters page / 0.3 page
- Characters
- Terry Zwigoff [as Prof. T.E. Zwigoff] (photo)
Indexer Notes
Letters from Juan Baptiste, Rev. Waldo T. Tupper and "Barry Manilow."
Weirdo number 4
letters page / 0.7 page
- Reprints
-
in The Complete Crumb Comics (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #14 - The Early '80s & Weirdo Magazine (April 2000) [Letters page logo only]
-
Indexer Notes
Letters from Dale Lee Coovert (Trotwood, OH), Steve Edgell (London, UK), Joel Weinstein (Portland, OR), Larry Windham, Alfred Bergdoll (NY, NY), David T. Pudelwitts (Provincetown, Mass) (includes a small illustration), Gary Panter and Richard Boyle (Sandiacre, Nottingham, UK).
The Unfaithful Husband and La Malisima Tentadora
photo story / 6 pages
- Script
- Aline Kominsky-Crumb (story idea); Robert Crumb; Erna Burger
- Pencils
- Gregg Gannon (photographs)
- Inks
- Gregg Gannon (photographs)
- Letters
- Robert Crumb
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Bob (photo of Robert Crumb); La Buncharoni (photo of Aline Kominsky-Crumb); Rosita (photo of Ernita Burger)
- Synopsis
- Bob is tempted by the housekeeper
- Reprints
- in Crumb Family Comics (Last Gasp, 1998 series) (1998) [first page only]
-
in Need More Love A Graphic Memoir (MQ Publications, 2007 series) (2007) - in R. Crumb The Weirdo Years: 1981-'93 (Last Gasp, 2013 series) (2013)
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The Nude Photography Class
comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- The photography class model arrives worse for wear.
- Reprints
- in Dori Stories (Last Gasp, 1999 series) (1999)
-
Excerpts from the Sketchbooks of Robert Armstrong
illustration / 4 pages
Indexer Notes
Several dozen small illustrations
Tor Johnson At Home
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Tor Johnson
- Synopsis
- Tor at home
- Reprints
- in High Times Magazine (Trans-High Corporation, 1974 series) #91 (March 1983)
- in Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #[nn] [First Printing] (November 1985)
- in Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental (Fantagraphics, 1986 series) (July 1986)
- in Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #[nn] [3rd & 4th printings] (September 1986)
- in Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental: An Anthology of Comic Art 1979-1985 (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) (February 2012)
-
The Day Chet Huntley Died
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Farmer; Edna; Ed; Ed's Father; Ed's Mother; Louie
- Synopsis
- Reactions to the death of Chet Huntley
- Reprints
- in Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #[nn] [First Printing] (November 1985)
- in Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental (Fantagraphics, 1986 series) (July 1986)
- in Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental (Fantagraphics, 1985 series) #[nn] [3rd & 4th printings] (September 1986)
- in Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental: An Anthology of Comic Art 1979-1985 (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) (February 2012)
-
Depressed Dora Comics
comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Depressed Dora
- Synopsis
- Depressed Dora needs to talk with someone
- Reprints
Beauty and the Pest
photo story / 4 pages
- Script
- Robert Crumb ?
- Pencils
- ? (photo)
- Inks
- ? (photo)
- Letters
- Robert Crumb
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- The Pest (photo of Robert Armstrong)
- Synopsis
- A practical joker on a date
The Return of the Pet Penis
comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Peter the Penis
- Synopsis
- The pet penis returns in a poor state
Inside 'Bob' Cult's Dallas Pow Wow
text article / 4 pages
- Synopsis
- Feature about a Church Of The Subgenius Convention
The Disappearance of Mr. Teeth
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- The disappearance of Mr Teeth isn't the tragedy it might have been
- Reprints
- in Buzzbomb (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) (December 1987)
-
Big Broadcast Of 1936
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Migmotto; Nauseana
- Synopsis
- Why did Mig drop his son down the chimney?
- Reprints
Liddle Brown Rahdin' Hood
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Brown Rahdin' Hood; Granny Hood; The Wolf
- Synopsis
- Satire on white folks stereotypical view of black folk
I Remember the Sixties
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Pencils
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Inks
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Letters
- Robert Crumb (signed)
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Robert Crumb; Mom; Dad; Gingerbread Princess; Jesus Freak; Hare Krishna
- Synopsis
- Crumb's recollections of the 1960s.
- Reprints
-
in El Víbora (Ediciones La Cúpula, 1979 series) #64 [como Recordando los 60] - in High Times Magazine (Trans-High Corporation, 1974 series) #94 (June 1983)
-
in Epix (Epix, 1984 series) #5/1984 ([september] 1984) - in Obras Completas Crumb (Ediciones La Cúpula, 1985 ? series) #1 - Mis problemas con las mujeres (Octubre 1985)
-
in Tegn (Tegn, 1986 series) #3/1989 (1989) -
in Crumb (Oog & Blik, 1992 series) (april 1992) - in The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book (Little, Brown, 1997 series) (1997)
- in Crumb Family Comics (Last Gasp, 1998 series) (1998)
- in The Complete Crumb Comics (Fantagraphics, 1987 series) #14 - The Early '80s & Weirdo Magazine (April 2000)
- in The New Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Stories: From Crumb to Clowes (Smithsonian Institution / New College Press, 2004 series) (2004)
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in Mes Problèmes avec les femmes (Cornélius, 2007 series) (août 2007) -
in Mein Ärger mit den Frauen (Reprodukt, 2013 series) (Juni 2013)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
[Wanted for Blowing His Mind in Public]
illustration / 1 page
- Script
- B. N. Duncan (signed as B. N. D.)
- Pencils
- ? (photo)
- Inks
- ? (photo)
- Letters
- B. N. Duncan (signed as B. N. D.)
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- I. I. I. Nomore
- Synopsis
- A mock-wanted poster.
Indexer Notes
Mostly text with a small photo. Back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Only the Best People Read"]
-
1.
Those In Power Send Us To Hell
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2.
Null In The Family
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3.
Weirdo's Advice to the Lovelorn
Weirdo's Advice to the Lovelorn -
4.
Weirdo number 4
-
5.
The Unfaithful Husband and La Malisima Tentadora
-
6.
The Nude Photography Class
-
7.
Excerpts from the Sketchbooks of Robert Armstrong
-
8.
Tor Johnson At Home
-
9.
The Day Chet Huntley Died
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10.
Depressed Dora Comics
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11.
Beauty and the Pest
-
12.
The Return of the Pet Penis
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13.
Inside 'Bob' Cult's Dallas Pow Wow
-
14.
The Disappearance of Mr. Teeth
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15.
Big Broadcast Of 1936
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16.
Liddle Brown Rahdin' Hood
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17.
I Remember the Sixties
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18.
Berserkeley Blues
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19.
[Wanted for Blowing His Mind in Public]
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