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Issue: Raw #7
Publication Date: May 1985
 
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Title: The Torn-Again Graphix Magazine
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagRaw Books
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Raw Books & Graphics
On Sale Date: 05/01/1985
Volume: 1
Pages: ?
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Price: $6.00 USD
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Content Items: 24 (12 stories, 1 cover)
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"RAW is published about twice a year by RAW BOOKS & GRAPHICS, 27 Greene Street, NYC, N.Y. 100013. It is not published by or connected with Real Art Ways (RAW) INK (INC) or any other organization. Entire contents ©1985 by Raw Books & Graphics unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. ISSN 0742-4434; We are not responsible for unsolicited submissions. Send only nonreturnable photocopies.; Publisher: Françoise Mouly; Design & Production: Françoise Mouly; Design Associate: Mark Michaelson; Aides: Tomas Bunk, Kevin Hein, Paul Karasik, Mark Newgarden; SPECIAL THANKS TO: Yoshiko Kasuga, Robert Legault, Sonny O'Chiai, Kosei Ono; Typesetting: Daniel R. Shapiro; Printing: Malmar Graphics, NYC; Binding: Dependable Bindery, NYC"
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color Covers; Black & White Interiors with some Color
Dimensions: 10.5" x 14.12" (26.67 cm x 35.86 cm)
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Binding: Saddle-Stitched (#1-7); Squarebound (#8)
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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The Torn-Again Graphix Magazine

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Note: The top right hand corner of all issues was torn off & thrown in a pile; a corner picked at random was taped inside, with a piece of black tape; An ironic gesture to both high grade collectors and mass production.
Torn Together

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humorous
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Raw 7

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table of contents with piece of the torn cover attached; production credits, indicia, a list of other available RAW publications for sale
Advertisement

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Thirteen small comic-panel ads designed by the listed artists for the following (from NYC unless otherwise noted): Catalan Communications; Four "rusty metal" Gary Hallgren songs recorded by the K-Otics; Wayside Music (Wheaton, MD); Danceteria; A Last Gasp ad for a Larry Fine biography (SF, CA); Modern Girls; Village Comic Shop; Saint Marks Comic Shoppe; Impulse Magazine (Toronto, Canada); House Party; Independent Publications (Chicago, ILL); Rub-a-Dub-Dub (Buffalo, NY); Top Drawer ad for an R. Crumb Sketchbook
Jelly Roll Morton's Voodoo Curse

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biography
Jelly Roll Morton; Billy Young; Madame Elise; Anita Gonzalez; Laura Hunter [Eulalie Echo]
Jelly Roll's own words are used to illustrate this story about how a curse may have caused his decline and fall in show business and in life.
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FlagR. Crumb Draws the Blues #[nn] published January 1993
FlagNausea #[nn] published October 2012
FlagR. Crumb Draws the Blues #[nn] published January 1992
as Jelly Roll Morton's Voodoo Curse [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Complete Crumb Comics #16 published July 2002
as Jelly Roll Morton's Voodoo Curse [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagKlassiker der Comic-Literatur #19 published January 2006
as Jelly Roll Mortons Woodoo-Fluch [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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A Very Strange Trip

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Fermin & Piker
Fermin; Piker
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The first page only is in color.
[untitled]

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Mine
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Radioactive Guilt - Ritual Sacrifice in Reagan's America

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A text article excerpted from the writer's "Reagan's America" (Creative Roots, 1984). Accompanied by ten illustrations of varying sizes.
[untitled]

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Dog-Boy
Dog Boy; Rondy; Linda; Donna; Lois; Betty; Mandy
Yo! Dog-Boy! Get your face out of those plates and look what I got for you!
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You Know Where to Find Me At

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Amy & Jordan
Amy; Jordan
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Maus, Chapter Six: Mouse Trap

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Maus, A Survivor's Tale
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FlagMaus: A Survivor's Tale #1 published August 1986
as Chapter Six: Mouse Trap [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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a small-size insert
Maus, a Survivor's Tale: Synopsis

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Synopsis accompanied by a half-page photo taken by Jeffrey S. Kriger
The Passion of Saint Sluggo

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Sluggo; Nancy
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A double-page centerspread.
I Am a Cliché

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Story accompanied by ten illustrations of varying sizes.
Peer Pressure

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Cynthia; Rodney
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Shogun Tofu

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The first page only is in color.
Raw Fish Grafix

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Tokyo Raw

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Thirteen small text pieces accompanied by fourteen small illustrations: Three by Kawamura and Beyer, two by Yumura, one by Panter. The text pieces are titled "Lost in Face," "Arigato, Mr. Roboto," "Disposable Architecture," "A Slanted Point of View," "Lost in Space," Nippin' the Hand That Feeds Us," "It's 10 AM. Do You Know Where Your Husband Is?," "Next Flavor for Tofutti!," "Going First Class," "A Very Subtle Blend of 11 Different Herbs and Spices!," "Socks and Bonds" and "Conversational English for Adults Only (excerpts). The single Herriman illustration is taken from a March 30 Krazy Kat page (unknown year).
Jiraiya the Ninja Boy

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Jiraiya the Ninja Boy
Jiraiya the Ninja Boy; Sensei; Princess
Jiraiya is given the mission of rescuing the king's kidnapped daughter.
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This story was created just for this issue.
Tokyo Raw Data

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Brief blurbs on this issue's Japanese artists, plus Gary Panter.
Foundry

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Red Flowers

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Sayoko Kikuchi; Customer; Masaji
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A 9" x 5.5" (22.86 cm x 13.97 cm) insert stapled to the magazine's spine. Notations by Yoshiko Kasuga, Paul Karasik and Art Spiegelman. "Osewa-sama deshita: Kosei Ono, Yoshiko Kasuga, Akira Satake, Sonny and Hidé."
[untitled]

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A fascinating world is in store for you.
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A photo ad for Yurakucho Seibu department stores based on Shigeru Sugiura's character designs
School of Visual Arts

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Back cover. A full page illustration dated 1984 accompanies a small blurb for the school.

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