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Blab! #18
Blab! Vol. 18
edited and designed by Monte Beauchamp
Blab! Volume 18 delivers like nobody's business, with a decided focus on the comic arts. Underneath the covers by Ryan Heshka are a slew of all-new comic Mark Zingarelli reveals the "Chick's Club Taboo"; Euro-comics sensation Paco Alcazar tells a Lynchian superhero tale called "Obedience"; Pete Kuper dishes on the bullies that dogged him as a youth in "Bully for You!"; "Sirens of Silence" is cover artist Heshka's wordless depiction of a post-global disaster existence; Sue Coe presents the true tale of Coney Island's "Topsy the Elephant"; underground legend Skip Williamson serves up "Daddy Was a Lady," a portrait of legendary drag queen Rae Burton; Steven Guarnaccia returns with the story behind the man who created Miniature Golf in "Moe Greene's Hole in One"; Kramer's Ergot phenoms Xavier; and Helge prove once and for all that atheists are a product of cloned humans. Plus, Mark Frauenfelder of boingboing.com fame contributes the comic strip, "Juicemaker's Dream." This volume also features "Mr. Foney's Funnies," a feature on the bubble-gum card set that set the stage in 1960 for Topps' million dollar mega-hit, Wacky Packages .
Blab! Volume 18 delivers like nobody's business, with a decided focus on the comic arts. Underneath the covers by Ryan Heshka are a slew of all-new comic Mark Zingarelli reveals the "Chick's Club Taboo"; Euro-comics sensation Paco Alcazar tells a Lynchian superhero tale called "Obedience"; Pete Kuper dishes on the bullies that dogged him as a youth in "Bully for You!"; "Sirens of Silence" is cover artist Heshka's wordless depiction of a post-global disaster existence; Sue Coe presents the true tale of Coney Island's "Topsy the Elephant"; underground legend Skip Williamson serves up "Daddy Was a Lady," a portrait of legendary drag queen Rae Burton; Steven Guarnaccia returns with the story behind the man who created Miniature Golf in "Moe Greene's Hole in One"; Kramer's Ergot phenoms Xavier; and Helge prove once and for all that atheists are a product of cloned humans. Plus, Mark Frauenfelder of boingboing.com fame contributes the comic strip, "Juicemaker's Dream." This volume also features "Mr. Foney's Funnies," a feature on the bubble-gum card set that set the stage in 1960 for Topps' million dollar mega-hit, Wacky Packages .
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120 pages, Paperback
First published November 15, 2007
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April 16, 2020
Nobody brings me down like Sue Coe and her horrid animal torture stories. I'm an animal lover but it's the way she presents them that angers me because she makes me (and certainly most) not want to look at or read them at all- defeating her mission. If you want people to be inspired to do something about these type of things why go to the extremes that make people want to forget the horror they were over-jarred by?
This one is illustrations with typed prose about an elephant and insists:
"Every time we plug something into an electrical outlet we must remember her and her tragic life and cruel death."
Every time? Sue must live a life of misery for which she demands company.
Hard-selling rhetoric means you need to be better than bad at persuasive writing but she bungles her clumsy plea with "her" and "and" appearing four times in six words.
Oh yeah! Her (initially) funny cross-section drawing of the sexploits inside of an elephant hotel bordello had to include a guy stabbing a woman's guts. Normally I'd feel sorry for someone so tormented but I think she enjoys it.
Randall Enos is one of the worst cartoonists I remember. His purposefully moronic story and intentionally botched art aren't anywhere in the vicinity of funny or endearing- it's a pile of inky junk.
This one is illustrations with typed prose about an elephant and insists:
"Every time we plug something into an electrical outlet we must remember her and her tragic life and cruel death."
Every time? Sue must live a life of misery for which she demands company.
Hard-selling rhetoric means you need to be better than bad at persuasive writing but she bungles her clumsy plea with "her" and "and" appearing four times in six words.
Oh yeah! Her (initially) funny cross-section drawing of the sexploits inside of an elephant hotel bordello had to include a guy stabbing a woman's guts. Normally I'd feel sorry for someone so tormented but I think she enjoys it.
Randall Enos is one of the worst cartoonists I remember. His purposefully moronic story and intentionally botched art aren't anywhere in the vicinity of funny or endearing- it's a pile of inky junk.
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