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Issue: The Best Comics of the Decade #1
Publication Date: June 1990
 
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
On Sale Date: 1990
Volume: 1
Pages: 132
ISBN: 1560970359
UPC/EAN: 978056097035751295
Price: $13.95 CAD
$12.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 44 (35 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: color covers, Black & White interiors
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Binding: Softcover
Publishing Format: Collected Edition
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Title Pages Job Number Notes
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Illustration on Cover, Front
1   A large Griffith drawing is accompanied by small background drawings from thirty-two artists
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Blank Page(s) on Interior Page(s)
1    
[untitled]
Credits on Interior Page(s)
3   title page; production credits and indicia; table of contents; small drawings from the listed artists
Introduction
Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)
2   The text is accompanied by three drawings from the listed artists
[untitled]
Blank Page(s) on Interior Page(s)
1    
Life's a Bitch and Then You Die!
Story on Interior Page(s)
9    
The Saga of Frank Sinatra Jr.
Story on Interior Page(s)
2    
Daily Strip
Story on Interior Page(s)
8    
How Can I Write a Story About Fashion- Now That My Toy Boy is Gone?
Story on Interior Page(s)
3    
Cynicism- A Series of Cartoons on a Philosophical Theme
Story on Interior Page(s)
4    
The Sequel
Story on Interior Page(s)
1    
Rude Interlude
Story on Interior Page(s)
1    
In Pictopia
Story on Interior Page(s)
13    
Dead Dick
Story on Interior Page(s)
1   “Originally published in a somewhat different form in Raw vol. 2 no. 1. Finished color version also published as a lithograph by The Print Club, 1990.”
Rapture
Story on Interior Page(s)
5   The credits incorrectly give WW3 Illustrated #6 as the original appearance.
[untitled]
Story on Interior Page(s)
2    
Of What Use is a Bunch?
Story on Interior Page(s)
3    
Raging Skinboy
Story on Interior Page(s)
4   The first two pages appeared in Casual Casual. The final two pages are previously unpublished.
Chicago '68 part I
Story on Interior Page(s)
5    
Chicago '68 part II
Story on Interior Page(s)
4    
The Gourmets from Planet X
Story on Interior Page(s)
2    
[untitled]
Story on Interior Page(s)
1    
A Night on the Town
Story on Interior Page(s)
7    
Th' Consumption Came to Mill's End Village
Story on Interior Page(s)
2    
O Canada Our Home and Native Land
Story on Interior Page(s)
3    
Jerry Mack
Story on Interior Page(s)
5    
[untitled]
Story on Interior Page(s)
0.5    
[untitled]
Story on Interior Page(s)
0.5    
[untitled]
Story on Interior Page(s)
0.5    
[untitled]
Story on Interior Page(s)
0.5    
Dinosaurs at the Bar
Story on Interior Page(s)
1    
A Family Heirloom
Story on Interior Page(s)
4    
I Think I Was an Alcoholic Waiting to Happen
Story on Interior Page(s)
4    
God's Bosom
Story on Interior Page(s)
11   “Originally published in a somewhat longer form in Jaxon's Illustrated Tales, 1984.”
Lettering credit from Jaxon's Illustrated Tales #1.
Parental Brain Twisters
Story on Interior Page(s)
1    
[untitled]
Story on Interior Page(s)
1    
What Not to Say During Moments of Intimacy
Story on Interior Page(s)
1    
C.I.A. Also Linked to a Comic Book
Story on Interior Page(s)
1    
Jimbo Erectus
Story on Interior Page(s)
3    
American Splendor Assaults the Media
Story on Interior Page(s)
4    
Biographical Notes
Credits on Interior Page(s)
3   Brief blurbs on each of the book's creators accompanied by small drawings from the listed artists
Acknowledgements
Credits on Interior Page(s)
1   Reprint credits accompanied by small drawings from the listed artists
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Blank Page(s) on Interior Page(s)
1    
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Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)
1   Back cover promo includes a large Groening drawing and small background drawings from thirty-four artists

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