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Special 25th anniversary comics issue!BLAB! 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 stories: 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; 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. Plus: Baseman, Biskup, Shag, Staake, Hagelberg, Spain, and much more!
BLAB! is an annual coffee-table showcase of fine art, illustration, and comix, and a gold-standard in the work of the professional visual arts. Most of
BLAB! s contributors through the years have gone on to huge success in the gallery world (Chris Ware, Camille Rose Garcia, Joe Coleman, Gary Baseman, etc.) and the current volume sharpens
BLAB! s cutting-edge like never before.
BLAB! is conceived, edited, and designed by five-time New York Festival of Advertising award-winner Monte Beauchamp.
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