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Weirdo #1
OOP Comic
44 pages
First published January 1, 1981
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About the author
Robert Crumb
565 books525 followersRobert Dennis Crumb (born August 30, 1943)— is an American artist, illustrator, and musician recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream.
Crumb was a founder of the underground comix movement and is regarded as its most prominent figure. Though one of the most celebrated of comic book artists, Crumb's entire career has unfolded outside the mainstream comic book publishing industry. One of his most recognized works is the "Keep on Truckin'" comic, which became a widely distributed fixture of pop culture in the 1970s. Others are the characters "Devil Girl", "Fritz the Cat", and "Mr. Natural".
He was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1991.
Crumb was a founder of the underground comix movement and is regarded as its most prominent figure. Though one of the most celebrated of comic book artists, Crumb's entire career has unfolded outside the mainstream comic book publishing industry. One of his most recognized works is the "Keep on Truckin'" comic, which became a widely distributed fixture of pop culture in the 1970s. Others are the characters "Devil Girl", "Fritz the Cat", and "Mr. Natural".
He was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1991.
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January 2, 2023
Awww crap! Had the damned review written then I accidentally closed the page & lost the damned thing.
Very funny stuff by Crumb, natcherly. Aline Kominsky Crumb appears in separate fumetti sections in addition to Crumb’s artwork. God knows who wrote the scripts for the fumetti segments.
Oops! Almost forgot- the photos in the fumetti are by film director Terry Zwigoff .
Also contains several pages on the Church Of Subgenius and several ultra bizarre pages by the demented genius Stanislav Szukalski on his origins of man and the science of Zermatism.
This issue is worthy of owning for the Szukalski weirdness alone!
Very funny stuff by Crumb, natcherly. Aline Kominsky Crumb appears in separate fumetti sections in addition to Crumb’s artwork. God knows who wrote the scripts for the fumetti segments.
Oops! Almost forgot- the photos in the fumetti are by film director Terry Zwigoff .
Also contains several pages on the Church Of Subgenius and several ultra bizarre pages by the demented genius Stanislav Szukalski on his origins of man and the science of Zermatism.
This issue is worthy of owning for the Szukalski weirdness alone!
July 17, 2024
The first issue of Weirdo which Crumb describes as a Mad ripoff.
The only good stuff in my opinion was the Crumb strips. There's a few odd things here and there that make it feel like a magazine as opposed to just a comics anthology.
TV Blues with Etoain Shrdlu
-An old perv watches TV and gets sucked into a foreign language variety show with a beautiful dancing woman.
The Beautiful Experience
-spoof of beauty products? Girls with before/afters where the afters they have "weirdo" faces
High Times Interviews R. Crumb
-this is a strip where crumb gets interviewed by a guy from the magazine high Times. It's pretty odd and goofy. Crumb shows how he's a real square in the 80s.
The only good stuff in my opinion was the Crumb strips. There's a few odd things here and there that make it feel like a magazine as opposed to just a comics anthology.
TV Blues with Etoain Shrdlu
-An old perv watches TV and gets sucked into a foreign language variety show with a beautiful dancing woman.
The Beautiful Experience
-spoof of beauty products? Girls with before/afters where the afters they have "weirdo" faces
High Times Interviews R. Crumb
-this is a strip where crumb gets interviewed by a guy from the magazine high Times. It's pretty odd and goofy. Crumb shows how he's a real square in the 80s.
March 27, 2024
Stories in this issue:
- "TV Blues with Etoain Shrdlu" by R. Crumb - Evoking the nonsense phrase from mistype errors in the days of hot metal typesetting, Crumb delivers an equally nonsense story of a man being sucked into his television set but not getting the satisfaction he sought when he can't understand a word being said. Story makes no sense, but Crumb's cartooning is playful and inventive.
- "Suburban Cowgirls" by Stomp Ganos - A photo comic featuring some humorous shots of housewives dressed as cowgirls as they struggle to use their vacuum cleaners.
-A bizarre article by Stanislav Szukalski about the origins of man that is definitely all made up but also very funny and gorgeously illustrated.
- "Baby Sniggums and Her Daddy" by B.N. Duncan - A crudely drawn comic strip about Baby Sniggums who is routinely spanked.
- "High Times Interviews" by R. Crumb - A comic featuring a faux interview of himself, Crumb gets fairly introspective here but soon blows up at the interviewer who continues to ask distressingly more probing questions.
- Plus some articles.
A fun medley of underground comix of varying designs, Weirdo boasts a fair bit more variety than its other contemporary comic anthologies.
- "TV Blues with Etoain Shrdlu" by R. Crumb - Evoking the nonsense phrase from mistype errors in the days of hot metal typesetting, Crumb delivers an equally nonsense story of a man being sucked into his television set but not getting the satisfaction he sought when he can't understand a word being said. Story makes no sense, but Crumb's cartooning is playful and inventive.
- "Suburban Cowgirls" by Stomp Ganos - A photo comic featuring some humorous shots of housewives dressed as cowgirls as they struggle to use their vacuum cleaners.
-A bizarre article by Stanislav Szukalski about the origins of man that is definitely all made up but also very funny and gorgeously illustrated.
- "Baby Sniggums and Her Daddy" by B.N. Duncan - A crudely drawn comic strip about Baby Sniggums who is routinely spanked.
- "High Times Interviews" by R. Crumb - A comic featuring a faux interview of himself, Crumb gets fairly introspective here but soon blows up at the interviewer who continues to ask distressingly more probing questions.
- Plus some articles.
A fun medley of underground comix of varying designs, Weirdo boasts a fair bit more variety than its other contemporary comic anthologies.
November 22, 2009
Can a comic book get more perfect? In heaven, this is published weekly and it is the way to what is good and right.
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