Jerry Moriarty, Jack Survives (1984)

JACK SURVIVES by Jerry Moriarty, 1984.

 

Hugo Pratt, The Man From the Great North (1980)

 

The Man from the Great North by Hugo Pratt, 1980.

Rumiko Takahashi, Maison Ikkoku (1980)

 

Maison Ikkoku by Rumiko Takahashi, 1980.

Akira Toriyama, Dr. Slump (1980)

 

Dr. Slump by Akira Toriyama, 1980.

Hugo Pratt, The Golden House of Samarkand (1980)

The Golden House of Samarkand by Hugo Pratt, 1980.

 

Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly, RAW Magazine #1 (1980)

 

RAW # 1 edited by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly, 1980

Nicole Hollander, Sylvia (1980)

 

Sylvia by Nicole Hollander, 1980.

The critics: 

"Nicole Hollander has been one of our nation’s leading satirists.That means that she is in the business of telling the truth and making it funny. She is right about almost everything. And because she is right, and she is funny, she has no power whatsoever.” --Jules Feiffer

Robert Crumb, Snoid Comics (1980)

 

Snoid Comics by Robert Crumb, 1980.

Tom Phillips, A Humument (1980)

 

A Humument by Tom Phillips, 1980.

Keiko Takemiya, To Terra (1980)

 

To Terra by Keiko Takemiya, 1980.

John Holmstrom and Peter Bagge, Comical Funnies #1 (1980)

 

Comical Funnies #1 by John Holmstrom and Peter Bagge, 1980.

Brian Talbot, The Adventures of Luther Arkwright (1982)

Luther Arkwright by Brian Talbot, 1982.

 

Gary Panter, Jimbo (A RAW One-Shot), 1982

 

Jimbo by Gary Panter (RAW One-Shot #1, 1982).

Vitorrio Giardino, Hungarian Rhapsody (1982)

Hungarian Rhapsody by Vittorio Giardino (1982).

 

Mark Marek, Hercules Among the North Americans (1986)

Hercules Among the North Americans by Mark Marek, 1986.

 

Baru, Tour de France (1986)

 

"Tour de France" by Baru (RAW #8, 1986).

Kawashima Norikazu, Her Frankenstein (1986)

 

Her Frankenstein by Kawashima Norikazu, 1986.

Charles Burns, Big Baby: Curse of the Molemen (1986)

 

Big Baby: Curse of the Molemen by Charles Burns, 1986.

Burns' scalpel-like ink lines dissect the dark underbelly of suburbia in this short horror tale published as RAW One-Shot #5 in 1986. The story, which did for comic books what Blue Velvet did for film, tells the tale of a strange child who may or may not have seen a subterranean monster digging around in his backyard. 

Hergé, Tintin and the Alph-Art (1986)

 

Tintin and The Alph-Art by Hergé,1986.

Hergé's last unfinished masterpiece!

Mark Newgarden, Love's Savage Fury (1986)

 

"Love's Savage Fury" by Mark Newgarden, 1986.

Not many experiences can compare to the thunderclap of reading Mark Newgarden's deconstructive examinations of the gag comic format for the first time. In this famous strip, first published in RAW #8, Bazooka Joe and Nancy are forcibly dragged into the netherworld of the New York City subway system and experience a "missed connection" that reconfigures our understanding of sequential narrative.

The critics: “Newgarden’s dense, formally experimental work began appearing regularly in RAW from the publication’s first issue. ‘Love’s Savage Fury,’ a narrative about the failure to find love on the subway, is based on a personal advertisement Newgarden read in a newspaper. The characters who Newgarden chose to star in this story were also drawn from mass culture: the lead character of Ernie Bushmiller’s comic strip Nancy and Bazooka Joe, the main character in a series of comic strips printed on bubble gum wrappers manufactured by the Topps corporation. More than an act of détournement, ‘Love’s Savage Fury’ intensely deconstructs the visual appearance of Bushmiller’s Nancy as a meditation on heartbreak, memory, and the iconic precision of those widely known fictional characters who exist within the public imagination.” – Bill Kartalopoulos, Formula Bula 7, Paris.