Yahoo
#5
(December 1991)
Fantagraphics,
1988 Series
- Price
- 2.50 USD; 3.25 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Published once or twice a year
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Mature Readers
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fantagraphics Books Inc.
- Brand
-
Fantagraphics Books [serif, double border]
- Editing
- Kim Thompson
Issue Notes
1st printing: October 1991
Yahoo number five: "How I Loved the War"
credits, title page / 1 page
- Synopsis
- Title page, production credits and indicia
Indexer Notes
Dedicated "To George, Saddam, and Helen." A panel from the "Notes from a Defeatist" story is included.
Wait!
Joe Sacco / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Joe Sacco
- Synopsis
- Sacco compares the anxiety of the Gulf War media buildup to being stuck in an L.A. traffic jam.
- Reprints
-
in War Junkie (Fantagraphics, 1995 series) (May 1995) - in Notes from a Defeatist (Fantagraphics, 2003 series) (2003)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated May 1991
The Human Spirit (Berlin '90)
Joe Sacco / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Olga; Olga's Groupie; Joe Sacco; P; B; M
- Synopsis
- An anxious Sacco drinks heavily in a bar that he went to with his friends.
- Reprints
- in War Junkie (Fantagraphics, 1995 series) (May 1995)
- in Notes from a Defeatist (Fantagraphics, 2003 series) (2003)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated March-April 1991
Desert Sheep #1
Joe Sacco / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Joe Sacco; Walt
- Synopsis
- Joe talks to Walt about creating a T-shirt that satirizes the Gulf War.
- Reprints
- in War Junkie (Fantagraphics, 1995 series) (May 1995)
- in Notes from a Defeatist (Fantagraphics, 2003 series) (2003)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated April 1991
Palestinians and Other Problems
Joe Sacco / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Joe Sacco; German Teacher; Ali; Mahmoud
- Synopsis
- Sacco chips his tooth when a case full of empty bottles falls on his head. He goes on to briefly touch on the Palestinian situation and a humorous incident that occurred in a class he was taking.
- Reprints
- in War Junkie (Fantagraphics, 1995 series) (May 1995)
- in Notes from a Defeatist (Fantagraphics, 2003 series) (2003)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated May-June 1991
Notes from a Defeatist
Joe Sacco / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Joe Sacco
- Synopsis
- Sacco gives his feelings on the rationales given by officials in the run-up to the Gulf War.
- Reprints
- in War Junkie (Fantagraphics, 1995 series) (May 1995)
- in Notes from a Defeatist (Fantagraphics, 2003 series) (2003)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated August 1991
Save Us
Joe Sacco / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Joe Sacco
- Synopsis
- Joe's "open" long distance relationship makes him feel neurotic, while at the same time making his girlfriend feel "empowered."
- Reprints
- in War Junkie (Fantagraphics, 1995 series) (May 1995)
- in Notes from a Defeatist (Fantagraphics, 2003 series) (2003)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Desert Sheep #2
Joe Sacco / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Joe Sacco
- Synopsis
- Joe has doubts about the Gulf War inspired T-Shirt he's designing.
- Reprints
- in War Junkie (Fantagraphics, 1995 series) (May 1995)
- in Notes from a Defeatist (Fantagraphics, 2003 series) (2003)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated July 1991
Next Tuesday After Midnight
Joe Sacco / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Fulvio the Italian; Joe Sacco
- Synopsis
- Sacco plays poker the night before the Gulf War deadline as people's anxieties are at a fever pitch.
- Reprints
- in War Junkie (Fantagraphics, 1995 series) (May 1995)
- in Notes from a Defeatist (Fantagraphics, 2003 series) (2003)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated July-August 1991
War Junkie!
Joe Sacco / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Joe Sacco
- Synopsis
- Sacco is glued to the Gulf War TV coverage, torn between self-righteousness and remembering the true meaning of the footage being broadcast.
- Reprints
- in War Junkie (Fantagraphics, 1995 series) (May 1995)
- in Notes from a Defeatist (Fantagraphics, 2003 series) (2003)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated August 1991
Much Better, Thank You!
Joe Sacco / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Joe Sacco
- Synopsis
- Sacco's long distance relationship collapses.
- Reprints
- in War Junkie (Fantagraphics, 1995 series) (May 1995)
- in Notes from a Defeatist (Fantagraphics, 2003 series) (2003)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated August 1991
Think Zinc
Joe Sacco / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Joe Sacco
- Synopsis
- Sacco is ebullient while grooving to T. Rex's "Think Zinc," while his friends are subdued. Later on, they go to a club.
- Reprints
- in War Junkie (Fantagraphics, 1995 series) (May 1995)
- in Notes from a Defeatist (Fantagraphics, 2003 series) (2003)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated August 1991
Hate is Love
Joe Sacco / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Joe Sacco; Ali
- Synopsis
- Sacco ponders the hatefulness of the Palestinians who were cheering the Iraqi scuds that were landing in Israel, and why that hatred exists.
- Reprints
- in War Junkie (Fantagraphics, 1995 series) (May 1995)
- in Notes from a Defeatist (Fantagraphics, 2003 series) (2003)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Was I Right?
Joe Sacco / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Joe Sacco
- Synopsis
- With the war over, Sacco gives his feelings on the human cost of it.
- Reprints
- in War Junkie (Fantagraphics, 1995 series) (May 1995)
- in Notes from a Defeatist (Fantagraphics, 2003 series) (2003)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated August-September 1991
Goodbye to All That
Joe Sacco / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Joe Sacco; Ali
- Synopsis
- Sacco contrasts his personal feelings with that of his friend Ali, whose personal tragedies include his family having to flee Palestine in 1948.
- Reprints
- in War Junkie (Fantagraphics, 1995 series) (May 1995)
- in Notes from a Defeatist (Fantagraphics, 2003 series) (2003)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated September 1991
Desert Sheep #3
Joe Sacco / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Joe Sacco; Walt
- Synopsis
- Sacco's Gulf War T-Shirts have sold out.
- Reprints
- in War Junkie (Fantagraphics, 1995 series) (May 1995)
- in Notes from a Defeatist (Fantagraphics, 2003 series) (2003)
-
- Keywords
- autobiography
Indexer Notes
Dated September 1991
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
How I Loved the War
Joe Sacco -
1.
Yahoo number five: "How I Loved the War"
-
2.
Wait!
Joe Sacco -
3.
The Human Spirit (Berlin '90)
Joe Sacco -
4.
Desert Sheep #1
Joe Sacco -
5.
Palestinians and Other Problems
Joe Sacco -
6.
Notes from a Defeatist
Joe Sacco -
7.
Save Us
Joe Sacco -
8.
Desert Sheep #2
Joe Sacco -
9.
Next Tuesday After Midnight
Joe Sacco -
10.
War Junkie!
Joe Sacco -
11.
Much Better, Thank You!
Joe Sacco -
12.
Think Zinc
Joe Sacco -
13.
Hate is Love
Joe Sacco -
14.
Was I Right?
Joe Sacco -
15.
Goodbye to All That
Joe Sacco -
16.
Desert Sheep #3
Joe Sacco -
17.
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