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Issue: Raw #8
Publication Date: September 1986
 
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Title: The Graphic Aspirin for War Fever
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Publisher: FlagRaw Books
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Indicia Publisher: Raw Books & Graphics
On Sale Date: 09/20/1986
Volume: 1
Pages: 112
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Price: $7.95 USD
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Content Items: 22 (12 stories, 1 cover)
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"RAW is published biyearly by RAW BOOKS & GRAPHICS, 27 Greene Street, NYC, NY 10013. It is not published by or affiliated with any other corporation or organization. Entire contents © 1986 by Raw Books unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. We are not responsible for unsolicited submissions and, for the most part, are unable to respond. Send only non-returnable photocopies. ISSN-0742-4434

PUBLISHER: Françoise Mouly; DESIGN & PRODUCTION: Françoise Mouly; ASSISTANTS: Lisa Kleinberg-Elliot, Geoff Notkin, Santiago Cohen; SPECIAL THANKS TO: Deborah Bonner, Charles Burns, Steven Guarnaccia, Paul Karasik & Mark Newgarden.; TYPESETTING: Daniel Shapiro; Strong Silent Type; LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES: National Offset Plates, NYC; PRINTING: Malmar Graphics, NYC; BINDING: Advanced Graphics, LIC, NY"
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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 Graphic Aspirin for War Fever

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Couple

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RAW Data

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Brief blurbs on the artists; Brief editorial; table of contents; indicia and production credits; a list of other RAW publications
Jailbreak Hotel

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“Rewrite by Paul Karasik and Art Spiegelman”
Crash, Skriiiiiiiiiiiiii ,,, Bang !

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from ? (1977)
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Hell to Pay!

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Waldo the Cat
Waldo; Pauly Zimmer
After Waldo overdoses, his spirit is visited by the devil's emissary.
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FlagAll Waldo Comics #[nn] published March 1992
 
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Alliteration

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Leo Gorcey
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FlagWarts and All #[nn] published January 1990
FlagWarts and All #[nn] published March 1994
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A full page illustration accompanied by a brief poem by Dead End Kid Leo Gorcey. The poem is from “Dead End Yells, Wedding Bells, Cockle Shells, and Dizzy Spells” (Vantage Press, 1967).
The Beginning of the End

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An excerpt from Boyer's book "By the Bomb's Early Light, American Thought and Culture At the Dawn of the Atomic Age" (Random House, 1985). The article also reprints a Harold Gray "Little Orphan Annie" strip from January 18, 1946, a few pages from a 1950 issue of "Real Life Comics" and the front cover to "Atomic War" #1 (all in small-size).
[untitled]

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Jimbo
Jimbo
Jimbo is stepping off the edge of a cliff!
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FlagJimbo: Adventures in Paradise #[nn] published August 1988
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The story is entirely in duotone except for pgs. six & seven which have an orange-colored illustration superimposed with the main illustration.
Advertisements

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Eleven ads divided into comic-style panels. From NYC unless otherwise noted: Lambiek (Netherlands); Pantheon's "Love is Hell" book; Monkey's Retreat (Columbus, OH); Escape (London, UK); Lone Wolf Press (Cambridge, MA); Bad News #2 (NYC, NY); Fantagraphics (Agoura, CA); Sohozat; RAW lapel buttons; House Party; Catalan Communications. "Ads designed by Charles Burns, Drew Friedman, Rick Gallagher, Paul Karasik, Kaz, Françoise Mouly & Mark Michaelson."
Maus, A Survivor's Tale (Chapter Seven): Mauschwitz

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Maus, A Survivor's Tale
Françoise Mouly; Art Spiegelman; Vladek; Mrs. Karp; Eddie Karp; Avraham; Priest; Mandelbaum; Kapo
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FlagMaus - Vertelling van een overlevende #[1] published January 1987
FlagMaus I & II Historia til ein overlevande #[nn] published January 1993
FlagMaus, vertelling van een overlevende #1 published January 1994
FlagMaus #[nn] published January 1996
FlagThe Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale #[nn] published January 1997
FlagMaus: Relato de un superviviente #[nn] published November 2001
FlagMaus - De volledige editie #[nn] published January 2004
FlagMaus #[nn] published November 2009
FlagDie vollständige Maus #[nn] published January 2010
FlagThe Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale [25th Anniversary Edition] #[nn] published October 2011
FlagMaus #II published ?
FlagRaw #1 published July 1989
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FlagMaus: A Survivor's Tale #2 published November 1991
as Maus II Chapter One: Mauschwitz [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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The beginning of Maus part II. Pgs. 154-79. A 9” x 6” (22.86 cm x 15.24 cm) insert bound to the magazine.
Cats

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A trio of cats play with a mouse.
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From circa 1900.
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Written On the Wind
For months, cars were being burned in Florence.
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Love's Savage Fury (I saw you on the subway.)

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Nancy
A playful deconstruction of the Nancy comic strip character.
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FlagWe All Die Alone #[nn] published July 2005
FlagAn Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons and True Stories #[1] published October 2006
 
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Windows

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Gimme a Break!

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The Knuckleheads
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RAW Gagz

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A series of 101 gag illustrations. Thirty-eight of the gag captions are written by the RAW staff. Also includes fourteen small text pieces by Tom De Haven entitled “Gagz Amour.”

The titled ones are: Andrew Shachat - "George's Fear of a Life After Death Proved Well Founded."; Bob Zoell- "Running Turtle With Six-Pack" & "What S-stinks?"; Brad Holland- "Smoke As Much As You Can"; "God, help this poor junkie."; "You can fucking well get your own breakfast."; Charles Burns- "Now go, Tubor! Go seek the arches!"; "Aww, come on Timmy... don't be afraid... I'm your secret little friend!"; Drew Friedman- "Just then it hit me... EVERYBODY in the joint had Acromegaly."; Ever Meulen- "There's nothing wrong that $500 won't fix"; Francis Masse- "Time's Up"; Frans Masereel- "Circle of Death"; "Back From the Front"

Gary Panter- "Ouch! That's no worm!"; "Can't we ever come to the beach without those crazy old bankers killing someone to impress us?"; Harry Hershfield- "I'm telling you, Meyer, that he's singing "La Boheme"; "You can't tell till he's through= he's liable to switch, the last minute!!"; Howard Cruse- "Well, if I'd known you were brain-dead, I never would have brought it up!"; Infrarot- "Oh, it's daddy!! How long can you stay underwater?"; Joe Schwind- "Here Are People Just Like You Now Making Money Beyond Their Wildest Dreams!"

Joost Swarte- "Nice of Henry to take me out once in a while"; Jorga Cardin- "Suburban Ambush"; Justin Green; "Debtor's Solace" "Conceptual Art"; Kamagurka- "Hello Mary, we're your new parents!"; "Happy Birthday, Mother!"; Kamagurka & Herr Seele "Cowboy Henk Goes to New York" approx. 11 pg strip; Mark Marek- "The way I see it, lady, as compared with corporate rape of underdeveloped countries, this ain't diddly-squat." "Whataya know, my headache's almost gone!";

Mark Newgarden- "See What I Mean?"; Mark Tansey- "Secret of the Sphinx"; "Still Life"; "Homage to Susan Sontag"; Marshall Arisman- "I hope I never get the plague."; Mary Ann Smith- "Try Our "All You Can Eat" - Special"; Muzo- "Lucky stiff... Not many people reach such a high poin in their life...."; "Look, I drew the road: It's here, in this corner, that I had the accident." "Listen old man, I want to go to Trifouillis sous Bois..."; Norman Dog- "That's what I forgot to pick up at the market... mushrooms!"

Ollie Harrington "Body all achin' and wracked with pain... Tote that barge, life that bale..."; Pascal Doury- "For My Birthday, Natalie Made Me Some Noodles"; Peter Saul- "Donald Duck Descending a Staircase"; "Art & Life"; Placid- "Sorry Ladies, but The Boss has found a new secretary!"; Poussin- "Poor Folks... They've got a spermatozoid that didn't want to grow into a child..."; Richard Sala- "It was on a quite Tuesday evening, that my past finally caught up with me."; "There goes old Parker again."

S. Clay Wilson "Eat your nice dick, dear..."; S. Kerlin- "Das Fritined Fraulein un der Largen Knackwurst"; "The Artist Who Exploited His Dog"; "For Years, Scientists Have Been Making Guinea Pigs Out of Mice"; S.J. Perelman- "Learn From the Art Game! Fun! Profit! Fame! Banana Oil!!"; Stuart Davis- "Some Masses Artists Seeking Inspiration" (from The Masses #55, January 1918); Tom Pappas- "And this is my wife, the Prehistoric Hog" Vitaly Komar; Alexander Melamid- "The Origin of Socialist Realism"; "Yalta Conference (From a History Textbook, 1984)
Advertisements

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Sixteen ads divided into comic-style panels. From NYC unless otherwise noted: Jamie Canvas; Art Buttons; Jimbo mugs by John de Fazio; Apex Novelties (Berkeley, CA); Amok's “First Dispatch” (LA, CA); Life Cafe; Postcards sold by Glenn Bray (Sylmar, CA); Spring Street Books; The Weirdo Art of R. Crumb from Last Gasp (SF, CA); Top Drawer Rubber Stamp Co. (Hancock, VT); Wayside Music (Wheaton, MD); Scooby's Toys (Berkeley, CA); A Gary Panter print offered by Nathaniel Bohlin (Wilkes/ Barre, PA); Strong Silent Type; Village Comics. “Ads designed by Charles Burns, Dave Cason, Eric Drooker, Rick Gallagher, Paul Karasik, Mark Newgarden, Gary Panter & Art Spiegelman.”
Tour de France

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Gillet; Leduc; Galus; Walter Fruloni; Alphonse Paus; Grisoni
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Last Rites

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Pig
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Mr. Henry Crown, Merchant of Death

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Henry Crown; Ronald Reagan
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[untitled]

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School of Visual Arts
To be Good is not enough, when you dream of being Great.
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Back cover. “Designer: Bill Kobasz”

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