(1991)
World War 3 Illustrated,
1979 Series
- Price
- 3.00 USD
- Pages
- 132
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- ?
- Editing
- Peter Kuper; Seth Tobocman; Sabrina Jones; Scott Cunningham
Issue Notes
Published some time after February-March 1991 judging from some of the signed artist dates contained in the stories.
New World Empire
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Peter Kuper (stencil airbrush ?)
- Inks
- Peter Kuper (stencil airbrush ?)
- Colors
- Peter Kuper (stencil airbrush ?)
- Letters
- ?
- Reprints
-
in Pox (Epix, 1984 series) #2/1992 (1992) -
in Speechless (Top Shelf, 2001 series) (2001)
-
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- "A thousand points of light" ... Always wondered what that meant, until the night of January 16th when those thousand points of light were exploding over Baghdad.
Indexer Notes
Accompanied by a brief text piece
Contents Issue #14
table of contents / 1 page
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Accompanied by publication credits at bottom
Bombs Away
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Peter Kuper
- Pencils
- Peter Kuper (stencil airbrush ?)
- Inks
- Peter Kuper (stencil airbrush ?)
- Letters
- Peter Kuper (stencil airbrush ?)
- Reprints
- in Heavy Metal Magazine (Heavy Metal, 1977 series) #v15#4 (September 1991)
- in Bleeding Heart (Fantagraphics, 1991 series) #2 (March 1992)
- in World War 3 Illustrated: Confrontational Comics (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995 series) (September 1995)
- in Speechless (Top Shelf, 2001 series) (2001)
- in World War 3 Illustrated: 1979-2014 (PM Press, 2014 series) (2014)
-
The Following Are Quotes From U.S. Troops in the Persian Gulf
comic story / 1 page
Indexer Notes
This and the following sequence are titled "Quotes from Soldiers and Their Families" in the table of contents
Spoils of War
comic story / 3 pages
- Characters
- Guide
Indexer Notes
"Note: This story is based on a dream experience by the artist on September 4, 1990"
How the U.S. Won the War
comic story / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Titled "Bronx Troops" in the table of contents
Prediction: New World Empire
text article / 7 pages
- Script
- Eqbal Ahmad
- Pencils
- Peter Kuper (stencil); Scott Cunningham; Seth Tobocman; Eric Drooker (scratchboard ?); Sabrina Jones (stencil); Irene Ledwith
- Inks
- Peter Kuper (stencil); Scott Cunningham; Seth Tobocman; Eric Drooker (scratchboard ?); Sabrina Jones (stencil); Irene Ledwith
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Saddam Hussein; George Herbert Walker Bush
Indexer Notes
Accompanied by seven illustrations of varying sizes. Cunningham contributes a continuous strip that runs on the bottom of each page
World Word Lie
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Rigo 23 [as Rigo 91]
- Pencils
- Rigo 23 [as Rigo 91]
- Inks
- Rigo 23 [as Rigo 91]
- Letters
- Rigo 23 [as Rigo 91]
Indexer Notes
Title from the table of contents.
New World Order- Same Old George
text article / 3 pages
- Script
- Rick Scanlan ?
- Pencils
- Stephen Kroninger (photo collage)
- Inks
- Stephen Kroninger (photo collage)
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Norman Schwarzkopf (photo); George Herbert Walker Bush (photo)
Indexer Notes
Accompanied by three photo collages of varying sizes
U.N. for Sale
comic story / 1 page
- Characters
- George Herbert Walker Bush; Mikhail Gorbachev; Hussein of Jordan
Indexer Notes
Title from the table of contents. The first line of dialogue is "Bush went to the United Nations to buy an international coalition."
[no title indexed]
text story / 1 page
- Script
- Debra DeSalvo
- Pencils
- Eric Drooker (scratchboard)
- Inks
- Eric Drooker (scratchboard)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What are the motherfuckers with no lips doing tonight?
Indexer Notes
A text piece accompanied by a single illustration. Titled "Opening Day" in the table of contents.
Euphoria
illustration / 12 pages
- Characters
- George Herbert Walker Bush; Norman Schwarkopf; Dick Cheney; Bart Simpson
Another Day, Another Petro-Dollar
comic story / 3 pages
- Characters
- Kathryn Hyatt; Sue; Pat; Brent Scowcroft (photo); George Herbert Walker Bush (photo)
The War Game ...Who Wins?
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Trina Robbins (signed)
- Pencils
- Trina Robbins (signed)
- Inks
- Trina Robbins (signed)
- Letters
- Trina Robbins (signed)
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Woman Soldier
- Synopsis
- An anti-war mock board game
- Reprints
in The Bridge
comic story / 5 pages
- Characters
- Scarlett Letter ?; Reporter; High Driver; Melissa
- Synopsis
- A anti-Gulf War protester recounts what happened to her on the night of January 19, 1991 in NYC.
[In the New World Order, Those Who Refuse to Kill Are Criminals / Support the Real Heroes of the Gulf War]
text article / 1 page
Indexer Notes
A text article accompanied by a blown-up image of the back of a dollar bill. Titled "Hands Off" in the table of contents
The City and the War
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Chuck Sperry as [Sperry] (signed)
- Pencils
- Chuck Sperry as [Sperry] (signed)
- Inks
- Chuck Sperry as [Sperry] (signed)
- Letters
- Chuck Sperry as [Sperry] (signed)
Power Myth
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Cheap Art; George Herbert Walker Bush
- Pencils
- Cheap Art (ink only ?)
- Inks
- Cheap Art
- Letters
- Cheap Art
- Characters
- Connie Chung (photo); Robert MacNeil (photo); Mary Hart (photo); Tom Brokaw (photo); Jim Lehrer (photo)
Indexer Notes
Text from George Herbert Walker Bush's January 1991 State of the Union address is incorporated with drawn comic panels and images from American TV news broadcasts
Foreign Policy Song #2
Shit House Poet / comic story / 4 pages
- Characters
- Sandy Jimenez; George Herbert Walker Bush
[no title indexed]
comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- No neighborhood in the U.S. has more troops in the Gulf than the Bronx.
Indexer Notes
Titled "Our Glorious Crusade" in the table of contents
Hypewarhypestyle
Pepgirlz / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Sue Siobhan [as Siobhan] (signed)
- Pencils
- Sue Siobhan [as Siobhan] (signed) (ink only ?)
- Inks
- Sue Siobhan [as Siobhan] (signed)
- Letters
- Sue Siobhan [as Siobhan] (signed)
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Pepgirlz [Sledgehammer Sue; Kali Maler]
[no title indexed]
comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- 1983: "Pretty Boy" Reagan overthrew Grenada.
- Characters
- Ronald Reagan [as "Pretty Boy" Reagan]; Ariel Sharon [as Ariel "Bugsy" Sharon]; Deng Xiaoping; Henry Kissinger; Mikhail Gorbachev; George Herbert Walker Bush; Saddam Hussein
Indexer Notes
Titled "International Law" in the table of contents
Out of My Past and Into Your Future
Alien Metaphor / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Scott Cunningham [as S. Cunningham] (signed)
- Pencils
- Scott Cunningham [as S. Cunningham] (signed)
- Inks
- Scott Cunningham [as S. Cunningham] (signed)
- Letters
- Scott Cunningham [as S. Cunningham] (signed)
- Characters
- The Boy [E.T. Boy]; The She-Monkey Mom; The Alien; Big Female Gorilla; Jesus Christ
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- January 1991: The mass media reported that the Pentagon was using a new generation of "smart" bombs that would avoid hitting civilian targets.
Indexer Notes
Titled "Smart Bombs" in the table of contents
[no title indexed]
Dreams of Reason / comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- At midnight on January 15th Saddam Hussein passed the deadline to pull out of Kuwait.
- Characters
- Peter Kuper
- Reprints
- in Heavy Metal Magazine (Heavy Metal, 1977 series) #v15#6 (January 1992)
- in Bleeding Heart (Fantagraphics, 1991 series) #2 (March 1992)
-
The Dog Bite
comic story / 10 pages
- Characters
- Sarah; Sarah's Dog; The Boy
- Reprints
- in World War 3 Illustrated: Confrontational Comics (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995 series) (September 1995)
- from The Dog Bite (Nexus Press, 1988) #[nn]
-
Eskimo Song
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Eric Drooker
- Pencils
- Eric Drooker (scratchboard)
- Inks
- Eric Drooker (scratchboard)
- Letters
- Eric Drooker (scratchboard)
- Characters
- Eskimo Hunter
- Reprints
- in Heavy Metal Magazine (Heavy Metal, 1977 series) #v15#4 (September 1991)
-
Indexer Notes
"A true story of one who survived the cold.... alone"
Difficulty at the Beginning
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Robby Desmond, R. N.
- Pencils
- Isabella Bannerman
- Inks
- Isabella Bannerman
- Letters
- Isabella Bannerman
- Characters
- Joanie; Robby; The Midwife; Teenage Girl; Georgia
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My fellow Americans, the Iraqi army has been defeated.
- Characters
- George Herbert Walker Bush
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- Script
- ?; Sabrina Jones
- Pencils
- Sabrina Jones (painted)
- Inks
- Sabrina Jones (painted)
- Colors
- Sabrina Jones (painted)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The issue is not driving. The issue is that here in Saudi Arabia, I exist as a person from the belly-button to the knees.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Back cover with a quote from a Saudi Arabian protestor
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
New World Empire
-
1.
[""A thousand points of light" ... Always wondered what that meant, until the night of January 16th when those thousand points of light were exploding over Baghdad."]
-
2.
Contents Issue #14
-
3.
Bombs Away
-
4.
Foreign Policy Song
Shit House Poet -
5.
The Following Are Quotes From U.S. Troops in the Persian Gulf
-
6.
The Following Are Quotes From Relatives of Soldiers in the Gulf
-
7.
Spoils of War
-
8.
How the U.S. Won the War
-
9.
Prediction: New World Empire
-
10.
World Word Lie
-
11.
New World Order- Same Old George
-
12.
U.N. for Sale
-
13.
["What are the motherfuckers with no lips doing tonight?"]
-
14.
Euphoria
-
15.
Another Day, Another Petro-Dollar
-
16.
A Pax on Both Choices
-
17.
The War Game ...Who Wins?
-
18.
The Bridge
-
19.
[In the New World Order, Those Who Refuse to Kill Are Criminals / Support the Real Heroes of the Gulf War]
-
20.
The City and the War
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21.
Power Myth
-
22.
Foreign Policy Song #2
Shit House Poet -
23.
["No neighborhood in the U.S. has more troops in the Gulf than the Bronx."]
-
24.
Hypewarhypestyle
Pepgirlz -
25.
Back Issues
-
26.
[no title indexed]
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27.
["1983: "Pretty Boy" Reagan overthrew Grenada."]
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28.
Out of My Past and Into Your Future
Alien Metaphor -
29.
["January 1991: The mass media reported that the Pentagon was using a new generation of "smart" bombs that would avoid hitting civilian targets."]
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30.
1991- The New World Order
-
31.
["At midnight on January 15th Saddam Hussein passed the deadline to pull out of Kuwait."]
Dreams of Reason -
32.
The Dog Bite
-
33.
Eskimo Song
-
34.
State of Shock
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35.
Difficulty at the Beginning
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36.
Trees
-
37.
["My fellow Americans, the Iraqi army has been defeated."]
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38.
["The issue is not driving. The issue is that here in Saudi Arabia, I exist as a person from the belly-button to the knees."]
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- Steven Samuels
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