Comics that stopped
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
without much notice. I've been rooting through old comics, and the
following ones I have no idea how many issues were published. The
number at the end of each line is the final issue I have. Could
someone in the know say what the real final issues were?
Bad News 3
Big Thing (Fantagraphics) 4
Boom Boom (Aeon) 4
Buzz (Kitchen) 3
Deep Girl 5
Fusion (Eclipse) 17
Ghost Ship 3
Grafik Muzik 4
Graphic Story Monthly (Fantagraphics) 7
Lloyd Llewellyn (Fantagraphics) 6
Mad Raccoons (Aeon/Mu) 4
Night Life (Strawberry Jam) 6
Nocturnal Emissions (Vortex) 2
Owlhoots (Kitchen) 2
Prime Cuts (Fantagraphics) 9
Psycho Comics (Look Mom) 2
Purgatory USA (Slave Labor) 1
Sinner (Fantagraphics) 5
Snarf (Kitchen) 15
Tantalizing Stories 3
To Be Announced (Strawberry Jam) 7
Tomato (Starhead) 2
Twist (Kitchen) 3
Vortex (Vortex) 15
Way Out Strips v2 2
Way Out Strips v3 (Fantagraphics) 4
Wimmens Comix (Renegade/Rip Off) 17
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la...@ifi.uio.no * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
Mute
>Comics are kinda weird in that they often just stop being published
>without much notice. I've been rooting through old comics, and the
>following ones I have no idea how many issues were published. The
>number at the end of each line is the final issue I have. Could
>someone in the know say what the real final issues were?
>Grafik Muzik 4
That's right, I think.
>Tantalizing Stories 3
This went to six, plus Frank in The River, which preceded the
series.
-Mute.
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Arthur van Kruining
> Mad Raccoons (Aeon/Mu) 4
This is at least up to #7. With the rate of one issue per year I think
there should be a new one out soon. Every time you think this comic is
dead a new issue appears. (Maybe I should think this 12 times a year
because it's a nice comic.) But now I'm actually expecting the yearly
issue, it may be really dead and buried. It would be the comicsy thing
to do.
AFAIK the rest of the titles you mentioned stopped at those numbers.
Proost,
Arthur.
Jeff Mason
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> ...Could someone in the know say what the real final issues were?
>
> Boom Boom (Aeon) 4
> Ghost Ship 3
> Grafik Muzik 4
These are indeed the last issues of each of these series. Of course
each creator went on to do other work.
Jeff Mason - jma...@gator.net
Independent Comics - http://www.indyworld.com/ic
Doktor Pete
<la...@ifi.uio.no> wrote:
>Lloyd Llewellyn (Fantagraphics) 6
Well, then Clowes started doing Eightball. There was (to my
knowledge) one further LLLL comic, The All-New Lloyd Llewellyn (in
Black and White) (AKA LLLL Special #1), published by Fantag. in '88.
It was supposed to be printed in colour, but didn't pre-sell enough
copies. I'd imagine it was collected in the big LLLL compendium,
catchily titled #@$@#!!.
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Alan L. Stone
> Graphic Story Monthly (Fantagraphics) 7
> Prime Cuts (Fantagraphics) 9
Last issue was #10.
> Snarf (Kitchen) 15
Last issue.
> Twist (Kitchen) 3
Last issue.
> Vortex (Vortex) 15
Last issue.
Grafik Muzik #4 was the last issue, then the story
moved to Madman published by Tundra.
Tantalizing Stories ran for 6 issues.
Colin Upton's Big Thing #4 is the last issue
I have. I bought a whole mess of comics, including
the mini comics, directly from him in late 1995
or early 1996. I am unaware if he has published
anything since.
cheers, alan
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Jeff Mason
Alan L. Stone wrote:
> ...Colin Upton's Big Thing #4 is the last issue
> I have. I bought a whole mess of comics, including
> the mini comics, directly from him in late 1995
> or early 1996. I am unaware if he has published
> anything since.
"Big Thing" ran four issues from 1991 through 1992. I know that Colin
Upton was supposed to have something in that "Murder By Crowquill"
anthology that was supposed to come out last month (did that come
out?). He did some porno stuff including "Skunk", "Incubus -
Xxxenophile Presents #2" and "Incubus II - Xxxenophile Presents #4". He
was in "Real Girl" #3. There was also "Colin Upton's Big Black Thing".
The most recent stuff from him was Buddha on the Road which I remember
at least 2 issues of in 1996.
Jeff Mason - jma...@gator.net
http://www.indyworld.com/comics
Todd VerBeek
>> ...Colin Upton's Big Thing #4 is the last issue
>> I have. I bought a whole mess of comics, including
>> the mini comics, directly from him in late 1995
>> or early 1996. I am unaware if he has published
>> anything since.
My pal Jeff Mason said:
...
>The most recent stuff from him was Buddha on the Road which I remember
>at least 2 issues of in 1996.
And got up to 6 issues as of last year.
Cheers, Todd
Rik Imundo
SINNER from Fantagraphics
is all I was ever able to find
rik
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Jim Murdoch
>
>
>Alan L. Stone wrote:
>
>> ...Colin Upton's Big Thing #4 is the last issue
>> I have. I bought a whole mess of comics, including
>> the mini comics, directly from him in late 1995
>> or early 1996. I am unaware if he has published
>> anything since.
>
>Upton was supposed to have something in that "Murder By Crowquill"
>anthology that was supposed to come out last month (did that come
>out?).
Murder by Crowquill is on my invoice for this week.
Jim
Comic Madness
Unkinder and Ungentler in 99
Ucalegon
Fusion 17? I thought 15 was the last. There was also a one-shot
fanzine with contributions by most of the Fusion crew; I think
it was *Take Off!*, which came out in late 1994. Edited by
Lex Nakashima. Nice production.
Mad Raccoons will never get past #7 unless it's picked up by
another publisher. Edd Vick, who ran Aeon/Mu, sorta closed
down the company at the end of 1997. After that, about a
dozen comics in inventory came out, but now I think it's dead.
To Be Announced! - 7's the last I've ever seen.
But Pre-Teen Dirty-Gene Kung-Fu Kangaroos made it to three issues, so you never
know what's lurking out there.
Acag, Treesong (ucal...@aol.com)
Duncan
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <la...@ifi.uio.no> wrote in message
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> Comics are kinda weird in that they often just stop being published
> without much notice. I've been rooting through old comics, and the
> following ones I have no idea how many issues were published. The
> number at the end of each line is the final issue I have. Could
>
dunno
> Big Thing (Fantagraphics) 4
dunno
> Boom Boom (Aeon) 4
dunno
> Buzz (Kitchen) 3
yes
> Deep Girl 5
dunno
> Fusion (Eclipse) 17
dunno
> Ghost Ship 3
dunno
> Grafik Muzik 4
yes (plus Dead Air, Graphique Musique 1-3 and Creatures Of The ID preceding
it)
> Graphic Story Monthly (Fantagraphics) 7
> Lloyd Llewellyn (Fantagraphics) 6
no, seven (?)
> Mad Raccoons (Aeon/Mu) 4
dunno
> Night Life (Strawberry Jam) 6
> Nocturnal Emissions (Vortex) 2
could've sworn more but... dunno
> Owlhoots (Kitchen) 2
yes. (Kitchen Sink promised to continue it but never did...)
> Prime Cuts (Fantagraphics) 9
no, ten
> Psycho Comics (Look Mom) 2
> Purgatory USA (Slave Labor) 1
> Sinner (Fantagraphics) 5
yes - plus a story in Prime Cuts
> Snarf (Kitchen) 15
yes
> Tantalizing Stories 3
no, seven including the Frank In The River special
> To Be Announced (Strawberry Jam) 7
> Tomato (Starhead) 2
dunno
> Twist (Kitchen) 3
yes
> Vortex (Vortex) 15
yes
> Way Out Strips v2 2
> Way Out Strips v3 (Fantagraphics) 4
> Wimmens Comix (Renegade/Rip Off) 17
Jamie Andrews
Alan L. Stone <ast...@mail.cern.ch> wrote:
>Colin Upton's Big Thing #4 is the last issue
>I have. I bought a whole mess of comics, including
>the mini comics, directly from him in late 1995
>or early 1996. I am unaware if he has published
>anything since.
Someone mentioned _Buddha on the Road_, and also he
self-published another _Big Thing_ (#5) after Fanta cut him
loose. It has "Upton's Lives of the Saints -- St. Antony of
Padua" (a Pythonesque presentation of one of those bizarre
saints' tales -- the character also appears in _Buddha_) and
also "Chris", a drama about a pro-feminist man trying to live
with radical feminists (I related to that one). The signature
on the cover says "Colin Upton 93".
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Duncan
Jamie Andrews <add...@bottom.of.message> wrote in message
news:7k17gs$4...@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca...
> In article <Pine.HPP.3.95a.99060...@hpl3sn10.cern.ch>,
> Alan L. Stone <ast...@mail.cern.ch> wrote:
> >Colin Upton's Big Thing #4 is the last issue
> >I have. I bought a whole mess of comics, including
> >the mini comics, directly from him in late 1995
> >or early 1996. I am unaware if he has published
> >anything since.
>
> Someone mentioned _Buddha on the Road_, and also he
> self-published another _Big Thing_ (#5) after Fanta cut him
> loose. It has "Upton's Lives of the Saints -- St. Antony of
> Padua" (a Pythonesque presentation of one of those bizarre
> saints' tales -- the character also appears in _Buddha_) and
> also "Chris", a drama about a pro-feminist man trying to live
> with radical feminists (I related to that one). The signature
> on the cover says "Colin Upton 93".
>
Colin Upton's *Other* Big Thing? CU's Big Thing was his previous
self-published series, no?
Jamie Andrews
Duncan <dun...@airstream.co.uk> wrote:
>Jamie Andrews <add...@bottom.of.message> wrote in message
>news:7k17gs$4...@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca...
>> self-published another _Big Thing_ (#5) after Fanta cut him
>> loose. It has "Upton's Lives of the Saints -- St. Antony of
>> Padua" (a Pythonesque presentation of one of those bizarre
>> saints' tales -- the character also appears in _Buddha_) and
>> also "Chris", a drama about a pro-feminist man trying to live
>> with radical feminists (I related to that one). The signature
>> on the cover says "Colin Upton 93".
>>
>Maybe I'm slow on the uptake here but isn't the series your talking about
>Colin Upton's *Other* Big Thing? CU's Big Thing was his previous
>self-published series, no?
Well I might be the slow one, but I thought that after
BT#1, they were given "other" subtitles as well as numbers,
independent of whether Fantagraphics was publishing them. I
also thought that Fanta republished the earlier self-published
ones. But I don't have the pre-Fanta or early Fanta ones.
Hmm... what do I got here... I got here Fanta's _BT_#3,
date Dec. 1991, subtitled "CU's Other Other Slightly Smaller
BT", and Fanta's _BT_#4, date July 1991, subtitled "Yet Another
CU's Other Other Slightly Smaller BT". The aforementioned
minicomix _BT_#5 is subtitled "Yet Another CU's Other Other Even
Smaller Then [sic] Slightly Smaller BT". It is dated just "93"
and on the cover he is giving a big disarming grin and saying
"Hullo! Yes - its me again! Nobody else wants to bother with
this shit so here I am back in the D.I.Y. world of small press.
Miss me?"
I also got "Big Thing -- Collected Comic Storys 1990-1993",
also a minicomix, which collects some stories which appeared in
other publications (e.g. _Comics Journal_, _Naughty Bits_)
during that period.
I suppose all this discussion is kind of silly, since Colin
has been known to read this newsgroup, and can be reached at
cup...@planeteer.com at last sighting... BTW you all should do
so in order to pick up BT#5 with "St. Antony of Padua"... OK
enuff promotion... Colin, are you listening and can you help us
out with your timeline/checklist?