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Issue: A Child's Life and Other Stories [Revised Edition] #[nn]
Publication Date: January 2000
 
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Indicia Publisher: Frog, Ltd.
On Sale Date: 01/01/2000
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Pages: 156
ISBN: 1583940286
UPC/EAN: 978158394028051895
Price: $23.50 CAD
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Content Items: 40 (22 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: New edition with two stories not included in the previous edition.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover, mostly black and white interior
Dimensions: 8.5" x 11" (21.5 cm x 28 cm)
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Binding: softcover
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Minnie
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A Child's Life and Other Stories

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Title and publisher page with an illustration from the "Hommage à Duchamp" story; acknowledgements page with publication, bibliographic and reprint credits; table of contents page with an illustration
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Introduction

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Phoebe Gloeckner
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The full-page intro is accompanied by a full-page illustration (titled "Phoebe") from 1977
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Foreword

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Phoebe Gloeckner
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A full-page intro from 1998 accompanied by a full-page illustration- "Self-Portrait With Pemphigus Vulgaris, 1987"
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To A.G. Suits and Audrey S.L.M. Gloeckner-Kalousek

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Dedication page
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A Child's Life: An Account In Words and Pictures

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Minnie
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The following seven stories describe events in the life of Minnie, a child of approximately eight years...
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A Shoulder to Cry On

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Minnie; Lenka; Pascal; Minnie's Mother; Minnie's Sister
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Honni Soit Qui Mal y Pense

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Minnie; Beth
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Hommage à Duchamp

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Minnie
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A Child's Life

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Minnie
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Three full-page illustrations of the section's main character. The first page reprints the previous edition's front cover image, this time in black & white.
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En Famille or Beggar's Banquet

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Minnie; Marybeth; Pascal; John; Butcher
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Developmental Developments

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Minnie; Minnie's Grandmother; Cheryl; Cheryl's Dad [John Sheap]; Minnie's Grandfather
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An Object Lesson In Bitter Fruit

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Minnie; Minnie's Sister
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Stepfatherly Counsel

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Minnie; Stepfather
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Other Childish Stories

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chapter title page with an illustration that first appeared in the San Francisco Bay Guardian (1995)
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Magda Meets the Little Men in the Woods

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Magda; Husband In Ten Years; Husband in 13 Years; Boyfriend in 17 Years; Magda's Mommy
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Cat Litter Caper

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Alice; Alice's Little Sister; Alice's Mom
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Quaker School Q-Ties in Plan Against The Boys

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Alice
A group of schoolgirls discover one of their number has reached puberty
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Periodic Fantasy

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Minnie; Mom; Miss Hess
Pre-pubescent Minnie wants to grow breasts
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Fun Things to Do With Little Girls

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Phoebe Gloeckner; Phoebe's Sister; Stepfather; Mother's Boyfriend; Momma
Brutality during childhood
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Teen Stories

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Minnie's 3rd Love or: Nightmare On Polk Street

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Phoebe Gloeckner; Minnie; Bitsy; Tabatha; Richie; Brandy; Mother's Boyfriend; Lance; Gary; Bethie; Hippie David; Doc; Total Stranger
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In essence a precursor version of the artist's "Diary of a Teenage Girl" book featuring many of the same characters and events.
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It's Mary the Minor: A Confused Young Misfit Tells Her Story

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Mary the Minor
Mary; Richard
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Drawn by the artist at the age of sixteen. The previous "Mary the Minor" story was in Young Lust #6 (Last Gasp)
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Vocational Training

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Ann
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The Girl From a Different World

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Penny; Walter; Walter's Mom; Walter's Dad; Old Guy At the Busstop
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Grown-Up Stories

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One Best Friend Too Many or Fie On You and Good Riddance! To Think That I Once Loved You!

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Friend
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The Bob Skoda Story

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Jill; Rick; Bob Skoda; Sally
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Time Out For Pain (Three 3/4 Views)

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An Evening in Prague

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Jana Dvorakova; Dr. Anna Dvorakova; Officer
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The Sad Tale of the Visible Woman and Her Invisible Man

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The Visible Woman
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Tommy and Darryl

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Darryl; Tommy
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Private Display

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Young Man
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Paintings, Drawings & Etchings

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With the exception of the chapter title page these are full-page images many of which show the artist's skill in medical illustration.

Pgs. 133 (chapter title page); 144-45: Three b&w drawings- a signed 1995 sketch and two from 1996- “My Mother” and “My Husband."

Pgs. 134-37; 146-49: Eight mostly untitled ones from the RE/Search Publications edition of J. G. Ballard's “The Atrocity Exhibition.” In black & white except for the one used for the book's cover.

Pgs. 138-43: Six paintings- "San Bruno Mountain State & County Park” (1991); "Guns n' Roses / Metallica - A Day On the Green - Thursday, September 24, Oakland Stadium" (1992 concert poster); two RE/Search Publications book cover paintings- “Angry Women” (1991) and “Angry Women of Rock” (1994); ”The Breast, 1997" (medical illustration); “Untitled” (1994) from Future Sex Magazine (1993).
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A Decorative Pair

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Two full-page illustrations. The first one is titled "Desire Gratified," the latter one "Dreams and Desires Stillborn"
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About the Author

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Phoebe Gloeckner (photo)
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In this first collection, Phoebe Gloeckner offers an array of both hyper-real and wildly surreal...
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back cover with promo quotes from Robert Crumb, J.G. Ballard, Bill Griffith, The New York Times, Jean Harris, Diane Noomin

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