(Winter 1983)
Kitchen Sink Press,
1983 Series
- Price
- 2.95 USD; 3.50 CAD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- four times a year
- On-sale Date
- 1983-12-01
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Kitchen Sink Press Inc.
- Brand
-
Kitchen Sink Comix
- Editing
- Dennis Kitchen (Editor and Publisher); Will Eisner (Editor-in-Chief)
Issue Notes
On-sale date and month from Amazing Heroes #37.
[no title indexed]
A Life Force / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Will Eisner (signed as
Will EiSNER [stacked]) (painting) - Inks
- Will Eisner (signed as Will EiSNER [stacked]) (painting)
- Colors
- Will Eisner (signed as Will EiSNER [stacked]) (painting)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- drama
- Keywords
- soap opera
[no title indexed]
credits, title page / 1 page
- Script
- Denis Kitchen ?
- Pencils
- Will Eisner (illustration)
- Inks
- Will Eisner (illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
-
from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #7/14/1940 (July 14, 1940)
-
Izzy the Cockroach and the Meaning of Life (Chapter 1)
A Life Force / comic story / 19 pages
- Script
- Will Eisner (signed as
Will Eisner) - Pencils
- Will Eisner (signed as Will Eisner)
- Inks
- Will Eisner (signed as Will Eisner)
- Letters
- Will Eisner
- Genre
- drama
- Characters
- Jacob Shtarkah (intro); Rifka Shtarkah (intro); Izzy the Cockroach (intro)
- Synopsis
- An old man faces the loss of his job.
- Reprints
-
in Ilustración + Comix Internacional (Toutain Editor, 1980 series) #50 (marzo 1985) -
in Livskraft (Alvglans, 1987 series) (1987) -
in Livskraft (Semic, 1987 series) ([oktober] 1987) - in A Life Force (Kitchen Sink Press, 1988 series) (1988) which is reprinted
-
in Lifeforce (Reiner-Feest-Verlag, 1988 series) (December 1988) - in A Life Force (DC, 2001 series) (August 2001)
- in The New Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Stories: From Crumb to Clowes (Smithsonian Institution / New College Press, 2004 series) (2004)
-
in Umowa z Bogiem - trylogia (Egmont Polska, 2007 series) ([styczeń] 2007) - in Will Eisner: The Centennial Celebration, 1917-2017 (Dark Horse, 2017 series) (March 2017) [pages 14-48]
-
- Keywords
- soap opera
Indexer Notes
Chapters in a novel starring the building 55 Dropsie Avenue.
Escapee (Chapter 2)
A Life Force / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- drama
- Characters
- Daniel Shtarkah (intro); Rifka (intro); Jacob (intro)
- Synopsis
- A mother talks her son into coming for dinner.
- Reprints
- in Ilustración + Comix Internacional (Toutain Editor, 1980 series) #50 (marzo 1985)
- in Livskraft (Alvglans, 1987 series) (1987)
- in Livskraft (Semic, 1987 series) ([oktober] 1987)
- in A Life Force (Kitchen Sink Press, 1988 series) (1988) which is reprinted
- in Lifeforce (Reiner-Feest-Verlag, 1988 series) (December 1988)
- in A Life Force (DC, 2001 series) (August 2001)
- in Umowa z Bogiem - trylogia (Egmont Polska, 2007 series) ([styczeń] 2007)
-
- Keywords
- soap opera
[Queen Rana]
Mr Mystic / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Will Eisner (signed as W. Morgan Thomas)
- Pencils
- Bob Powell (signed as
POWELL) - Inks
- Bob Powell (signed as POWELL)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Queen Rana (Intro); Mr Mystic (Intro)
- Synopsis
- An immortal queen plunders jungle safaris for gold.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #7/14/1940 (July 14, 1940)
-
Neal Adams Interview
Shop Talk / text article / 16 pages
- Script
- Will Eisner
- Pencils
- Neal Adams (illustrations); Will Eisner (illustration)
- Inks
- Neal Adams (illustrations); Will Eisner (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
- in Will Eisner's Shop Talk (Dark Horse, 2001 series) (June 2001)
-
in Shop Talk (Komics Initiative, 2022 series) (mars 2022)
-
Indexer Notes
Eisner interviews Adams with many examples of his early advertising work. Adams and Eisner heading by both artists.
On the Top Floor, Back, Lived God (Chapter 3)
A Life Force / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- drama
- Characters
- Rabbi Bensohn (intro); Beckelah Bensohn (intro); Jacob Shtarkah
- Synopsis
- A rabbi takes care of his ailing wife.
- Reprints
- in Ilustración + Comix Internacional (Toutain Editor, 1980 series) #50 (marzo 1985)
- in Livskraft (Alvglans, 1987 series) (1987)
- in Livskraft (Semic, 1987 series) ([oktober] 1987)
- in A Life Force (Kitchen Sink Press, 1988 series) (1988) which is reprinted
- in Lifeforce (Reiner-Feest-Verlag, 1988 series) (December 1988)
- in A Life Force (DC, 2001 series) (August 2001)
- in Umowa z Bogiem - trylogia (Egmont Polska, 2007 series) ([styczeń] 2007)
-
- Keywords
- soap opera
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
A Life Force -
1.
[no title indexed]
-
2.
Izzy the Cockroach and the Meaning of Life (Chapter 1)
A Life Force -
3.
Escapee (Chapter 2)
A Life Force -
4.
[Queen Rana]
Mr Mystic -
5.
Neal Adams Interview
Shop Talk -
6.
On the Top Floor, Back, Lived God (Chapter 3)
A Life Force -
7.
[no title indexed]
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8.
[no title indexed]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Merlin Haas
- Katy Hayhurst
- Mike Nielsen
- Steven Samuels
- Joey Sayer
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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