Price: 5.95 USD; 7.95 CAD
Pages: 124
Editing: Gary Groth (credited) (editor); Tom Spurgeon (credited) (managing editor); Greg Stump (credited) (news editor); Pat Moriarity (credited as Patrick Moriarity) (art director)
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Issue Data

  • Indicia / Colophon Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
  • Indicia Frequency: monthly
  • Printer: ?
  • Barcode: 074470741145 05

Indexer Notes

Cover by Gilbert Shelton. Interviews with Gilbert Shelton and Gil Kane (Part II). Brief interview with Bus Griffiths (Canada). Obituaries for Jack Berrill and Magnus [Roberto Raviola]. Letters from Ian Boothby (Canada), R. N. Duncan, Roberto Di Fazio (Canada), John Kuhns, Tony Seybert, Muhammad Ali-Salaam Jr., Geoffrey Dow (Canada), and Alf Yngve (Norway).

Gilbert Shelton in France
(Table of Contents: 1)

cartoon / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
Letters:
typeset
    Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:And how much longer will you be staying in our country, Mr. Shelton?
Characters:
Gilbert Shelton
Synopsis:
A butler asks Gilbert, who's sitting on the floor in a richly-appointed room, surrounded by piles of French comics, how long he's going to stay.

Indexer Notes

Front cover. Word balloons are apparently layered over the illustration, not part of it. Signed "Gilbert Shelton 1996" (stacked, but not boxed).

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 2)

In Other Words / comic story / 0.5 page

Script:
Greg Stump (credited)
Pencils:
Greg Stump (credited)
Inks:
Greg Stump (credited)
Letters:
Greg Stump (credited)
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The shift from print to computers will open up new doors for comics --

Gilbert Shelton
(Table of Contents: 3)

about comics / 20 pages

Script:
Gilbert Shelton (credited) (interviewee)
Frank Stack (credited) (interviewer)
Pencils:
Gilbert Shelton (credited)
Inks:
Gilbert Shelton (credited)
Letters:
typeset
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I've know Gilbert Shelton since our college days at University of Texas in Austin.
Characters:
Freak Brothers; Fat Freddy's Cat; Oat Willie; Wonder Wart-Hog
  • Pages:56 - 75

Indexer Notes

Interview of Gilbert Shelton, conducted by Frank Stack in Paris in July 1995.

Gil Kane Part II
(Table of Contents: 4)

about comics / 26.2 pages

Script:
Gil Kane (credited) (interviewee)
Gary Groth (credited) (interviewer)
Pencils:
various
Inks:
various
Letters:
typeset
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:This is the conclusion of the Journal's interview with veteran artist Gil Kane.
  • Pages:77 - 103

Indexer Notes

Part two of an interview with Gil Kane, conducted by Gary Groth in three separate sessions from October 1995 through March 1996.

[Action Comics #9 (1938) Cover]
(Table of Contents: 5)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 0.5 page

Pencils:
Inks:
Letters:
typeset
    Genre:sports
Reprints (1)

[The Ranks of the Black Order (Catalan) Cover]
(Table of Contents: 6)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 0.3 page

Pencils:
Enki Bilal (signed)
Inks:
Enki Bilal (signed)
Letters:
typeset
Reprints (1)

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 7)

cartoon / 0.5 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Letters:
typeset
    Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I'm sorry, Madam President, there won't be any treasurer's report this month because we have a deficit.
Synopsis:
A women's club receives bad news.
Reprints (0)
  • from The New Yorker # ?

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 8)

cartoon / 0.3 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Letters:
typeset
    Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:What are the WOMEN of distinction drinking?
Synopsis:
A middle-aged woman questions the clerk in a liquor store.
Reprints (0)
  • from The New Yorker # ?

Indexer Notes

Caption is a take on the Calvert Whiskey advertisements "for men of distinction" (c. 1940s-1950s).

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 9)

cartoon / 0.4 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Letters:
typeset
    Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Of course, you understand these measurements are only temporary.
Synopsis:
A plump matron is optimistic that the measurements her dressmaker is taking will get thinner.
Reprints (0)
  • from The New Yorker # ?

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 10)

cartoon / 0.3 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Letters:
typeset
    Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:You don't ever tell anyone what I read, do you?
Synopsis:
A wealthy matron wants to make sure her reading habits are private.
Reprints (0)
  • from The New Yorker # ?
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. Gilbert Shelton in France
  2. ["The shift from print to computers will open up new doors for comics --"]
    In Other Words
  3. Gilbert Shelton
  4. Gil Kane Part II
  5. [Action Comics #9 (1938) Cover]
  6. [The Ranks of the Black Order (Catalan) Cover]
  7. ["I'm sorry, Madam President, there won't be any treasurer's report this month because we have a deficit."]
  8. ["What are the WOMEN of distinction drinking?"]
  9. ["Of course, you understand these measurements are only temporary."]
  10. ["You don't ever tell anyone what I read, do you?"]
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