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Issue: The Comics Journal #57
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
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Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Inc.
On Sale Date: 1980
Volume:
Pages: 148
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $3.00 USD
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Content Items: 23 (0 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: black & white (#32-36); color covers; black & white interiors with occasional color (#37 & up)
Dimensions: tabloid (#32-36); standard magazine size (#37 - 287)
Paper Stock: newsprint (#32 - ?)
Binding: foldout tabloid (#32-36); saddle-stitched (#37 - 244); squarebound (#63; 100; 200; 210; 235; 245 & up)
Publishing Format: ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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superhero
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Disappointment My Destination

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Kevin C. Mcconnell (credited)
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Opening Shots
This past February, I read the first trade paperback volume of the Chaykin/Preiss illustrated adaptation of...
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An appeal to fans to prevent the cancellation of Howard Chaykin's graphic novel adaptation of Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination, published by Baronet.
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Newswatch
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Headlines of note: Comics Code Rejects Daredevil Story; Heavy Metal Movie in Progress; Heavy Metal Severs Ties with Metal Hurlant; Marvel Cancels Seven Titles; Infantino Back at DC; "Dial H for Hero" Takes Over Adventure; Wonder Wart-Hog Returns in Graphic Novel; Cerebus Special Planned
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Ricochets- Stu Pots Responds to Criticism of "Pot Shots"

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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humorous
The Yellow Kid
Listen, I've been in this business for more'n five years!
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On page twenty.
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The Harlan Ellison Letters

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Chad Draper [as Draper] (signed); Paul Smith [as PMS] (signed); Ricky Livingston
Chad Draper [as Draper] (signed); Paul Smith [as PMS] (signed); Ricky Livingston
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Blood & Thunder
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Replies to the Ellison interview from issue fifty-three with many replies from him. Letters from Gerry Conway, Jeffrey M. Elliot, Steve Gerber, Roy Thomas, Mike Gold, David Glenn Cuccio, Ted White, Stephen Borer, Aase Thompson, Barbara Long, Reich Benasutti, David Stallman, Allen Varney, Kevin C. McConnell, Bob Rodi, Brad Linaweaver, Jeff Gelb, S. R. Kostelecky, Dan Recchia, Paul Adams, Fran Trevisani, Lou Stathis, William Atwood, Arthur Cover, Steve Leialoha, Paul M. Hardy, Cat Yronwode, Mike Cane

Accompanied by five illustrations, two of them by Pellegrini, and one apiece by the other three artists. Smith contributes an illustration of The Wasp. One of the Pellegrini illustrations is of Jimi Hendrix.

Continues on page 123.
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James J. J. Wilson (credited)
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The Comics Library Graphic Story Reviews
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Breathtaking Adventure Serial- Patten reviews Mahunter: The Complete Saga; Adventures on Other Worlds- Seidman reviews Mysteries in Space: The Best of DC Science Fiction Comics; Plumbing the Sewer- Decker reviews Chasing Hairy, a novel by Michael L. Fleisher; Flowers in the Wasteland- Fiore reviews Epic Illustrated #2, What If? #19, Siegfried by P. Craig Russell, Golem 100 by Bester/Gaughan; Shades of the Shadow- Wilson reviews three books about The Shadow; The Illustrated Stars My Destination: Pretty but Superfluous- Patten reviews Alfred Besters The Stars My Destination: The Graphic Adaptation
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John Byrne: An X-tra Special, Four-Star, Flag-Waving Talk with the Artist of The X-Men and Captain America!

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Franklin W. Maynerd (credited) (intro); Mitch Itkowitz (credited, conducted by); Gretchen Finke (credited)
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Franklin W. Maynerd (credited)
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John Byrne (photo)
John Byrne has been drawing comics professionally for the past six years.
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22.5
Interview conducted by Catron, Itkowitz, Sanderson and Ed Via with occasional comments from Stern, Austin and Finke. Accompanied by three photos and approximately thirteen sample images of his work.
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The Prodigal Iconoclast Returns to Comics- Gerber Speaks Again

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The first thing I wanted to ask you about the book is, why a rat?
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Interview conducted December 15, 1979 and accompanied by four spot illustrations, two of them by Scott Pellegrini and one by Dennis Fujitake.
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anthropomorphic, humorous
Wak! First it's Howard the Duck, now it's Stewart the Rat for Steve!
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On page eighty-seven.
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Engrossed in the Bark: A Critical Preview of Stewart the Rat

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Stewart the Rat
This world can be very confusing sometimes...
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Accompanied by three small-size images of Gene Colan and Tom Palmer's artwork for the series.
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An Alien Gallery

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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humorous, science fiction
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Three full-page humorous illustrations. On pages 103-05.
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Deviate Not

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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humorous
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On page 106.
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Super-Heroes: The Cult and the Fad- Including a Call for Radical Change at Marvel and DC

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...I think you have an editorial team up there that doesn't know what else to do...
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5.17
Text accompanied by a five-panel strip by Sinardi titled "The Five Phases of Comics Reading"
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
Pott Shots
Hey... look! I mean... fer cryin' out loud- what more do you want!?
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0.5
On page 111
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Philippe Druillet: A Look at Comics' Most Extraordinary Visionary

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Philippe Druillet, unquestionably one of the most visually imaginative and startling comics artists...
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Accompanied by a three samples of the artist's work.
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The Untold History of I.W. Comics

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Before the era of fanzines, and nation-wide ads selling back issue comic books...
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1.5
Accompanied by three small-size I.W. Comics covers.
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from Stewart, page 96

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0.22
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The Harlan Ellison Letters

Informational (about comics)  on  Interior Page(s)
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? (brief editor's note)
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Subject Matter
Blood & Thunder
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Continued from page forty-one. Last part of the letter from Mike Cane plus a postscript from Ellison.
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Tuning Into Comics

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The Reticulated Rainbow
Chasing rainbows probably fills an idle Saturday afternoon as well as committing television or...
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6.27
R. C. Harvey Text accompanied by three small-size cartoons by him. Also includes the final sequence from Harvey Kurtzman's Pirate Gold story from Twisted Tales #20, also printed small-size.
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"What Fools These Mortals Be!" The History of the Comic Strip, Part One: "Puck" Magazine and the Ascendance of the Cartoon

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Polychromatic Effulgence
The native American art form of the comic strip cannot be viewed in a vacuum.
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Accompanied by a signed portrait by the author; also includes three cartoons- one by Art Young titled "Discussing the Labor Question"; one by Opper and one by Keppler titled "A Harmless Explosion"; a small-size six-panel strip by F. M. Howarth titled "Mr. Newlywed's First and Last Culinary Experience"; the cover to the September 26, 1906 (vol. 9 no. 1543) issue of Puck magazine
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Comics Checklist: July/August

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typeset
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3.26
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Mike Ploog character sketch

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Inside back cover character sketch for the "Gremlins" segment from the Heavy Metal movie Ploog was drawing storyboards for.
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Marionettes

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Back cover illustration announcing "Dragon Shadow," a never-published collaboration between Harlan Ellison and Kaluta that was to have been published by Fantagraphics in Fall 1980.

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