Senility and the Obscure Title

[rick]

Help me out here gang.

In the very early 1980’s there were two, maybe three “issues” of a comic anthology that came out as a small package and the stories would be individual comics in different shapes and styles. One story would be a foldout, another would be cut like a Jack Chick tract, the next story would have pop-ups.

That sort of thing.

Anyway, I was reading some comics tonight and for some reason the series just popped into my head.

Here’s the dumbass fanboy part, I don’t remember the title, the publisher or even the individual stories, although I do think that Kim Deitch might have written one.

Does this sound at all familiar to any of you?

[Kirk G]

I've only seen one or two parodies of Jack Chick tracts, including the classinc "Galactus is Coming..." with Reed Richards.

The others must have had limited distribution or something. What was the point of them?
I remember one title that kept imitating products, like Oxidol, called "The Other" IIRC... but I never could track the concept or what it was about, so I never picked one up. Seems to me it was an 8-part Epic comic or something alternative that Marvel put out....

Is this it?

[JKCarrier]

I remember one title that kept imitating products, like Oxidol, called "The Other" IIRC... but I never could track the concept or what it was about, so I never picked one up. Seems to me it was an 8-part Epic comic or something alternative that Marvel put out....

You're talking about Rick Veitch's THE ONE:
http://www.amazon.com/One-Last-Word-Superheroics/dp/0962486450

But that was a standard-format comic, not the sort of thing rick is talking about.

[Kirk G]

Ah yes,
I was close. I knew it started with an "O"...other...one..

but that was as close as I could get. Sorry it was the wrong product.
Anybody remember what the other product covers were?

[Rob Allen]

A chronological search of Deitch's credits in the GCD turned up nothing matching the description, and the Who's Who had no suggestions. I hope you remember it; it sounds interesting.

[rick]

A chronological search of Deitch's credits in the GCD turned up nothing matching the description, and the Who's Who had no suggestions. I hope you remember it; it sounds interesting.


Yeah, I just wish I could get my damm memory to come up with something mroe to go on.

These were really neat little packages.

At this point all i really know for sure is that they came out sometime between 1981 and 1984, and that's about it.

[TheHistorian]

Could it have been Raw?

[Kirk G]

Wasn't RAW the magazine that tore off a corner of the magazine, but instead of stuffing it inside the same issue, swapped it for another copy's corner? It drove the customers crazy, as the post office couldn't be blamed, and they made the damage part of the image of the magazine. Am I wrong?

[MDG]

Wasn't RAW the magazine that tore off a corner of the magazine, but instead of stuffing it inside the same issue, swapped it for another copy's corner? It drove the customers crazy, as the post office couldn't be blamed, and they made the damage part of the image of the magazine. Am I wrong?
One issue they did that. Other issues had small books bound in (Two-Fisted Painters and Maus), "trading cards", die-cut covers, different paper stocks... But nothing like the thing asked about, though if Kim Deitch was a contributor, I'd like to find out.

I'm wondering if the publication in question was a single publication or just a packet of independently-made mini-comics.

MDG

[Kirk G]

If memory serves, wasn't Charles Barker involved in Raw?
Who was the prime creator? And what city served as the home base for this?

[Sir Tim Drake]

If memory serves, wasn't Charles Barker involved in Raw?
Who was the prime creator? And what city served as the home base for this?

I've never heard of Charles Barker. Are you thinking of Charles Burns?

[rick]

Could it have been Raw?

No I know it wasn't Raw.

That was the first book I thought of, but no, it wasn't Speiglmen and Co.

[Jonathan Bogart]

If memory serves, wasn't Charles Barker involved in Raw?
Who was the prime creator? And what city served as the home base for this?
I don't know what you mean by "prime creator," but Art Spiegelman and his wife Francoise Mouly were the editors of RAW, and the first half of Maus was serialized in its pages. It was based in New York, but included comics from all over the globe; primarily American and European, but at least one Japanese story got into the later volumes.

[Rob Allen]

Could it have been Weirdo?