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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published [July] 2001
Cover Price 3.95 USD; 5.95 CAD
Pages 100
Editing Chris Oliveros (publisher)
Notes Month of publication taken from Drawn and Quarterly's website.

Cover Details - "Who the Hell is Emil Kopen?"

Characters Emil Kopen
Genre Satire; Drama
Pencils Dylan Horrocks
Inks Dylan Horrocks
Colors Dylan Horrocks
Letters Dylan Horrocks
Notes Month of publication taken from Drawn and Quarterly's website.

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Atlas Number One"

Synopsis Table of contents, indicia and quote from Carl Barks.
Script Dylan Horrocks
Letters Dylan Horrocks

65 page Atlas story "Atlas: A Life of Emil Kopen"

Characters Dylan Horrocks; Emil Kopen; Leonard Batts; Bud; Linda
Synopsis Dylan Horrocks is detained by the authorities in Cornucopia. Leonard Batts visits Bud in the States and shows Bud and Linda his research on Emil Kopen.
Genre Drama
Script Dylan Horrocks
Pencils Dylan Horrocks
Inks Dylan Horrocks
Letters Dylan Horrocks

16 page story "There Are No Words In My Mouth"

Synopsis Wordless story with titles in a foreign language about Jews during World War II and concentration camps.
Genre Drama
Script Dylan Horrocks
Pencils Dylan Horrocks
Inks Dylan Horrocks
Letters Dylan Horrocks
Notes Title taken from table of contents. Actual title is in Cornucopian. Original only 15 pages and with word balloons, but no text.
Reprinted from Comix 2000 (L'association, Paris, 1999) #[nn].

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Letter to Hicksville..."

Synopsis Introduction to Schoolbus by James Kochalka. Also includes one day (October 6, 1999) from James' Sketchbook Diaries.
Script James Kochalka; Dylan Horrocks
Pencils James Kochalka; Dylan Horrocks
Inks James Kochalka; Dylan Horrocks
Letters James Kochalka; Dylan Horrocks
Reprinted from Sketchbook Diaries (Top Shelf, 2001 series) #1.

14 page Letter to Hicksville story "Schoolbus"

Characters James Kochalka; Jason Cooley
Synopsis Jason gets a phonecall from someone wanting issues of his "Schoolbus" zine which all got destroyed when his apartment burned down. James takes him to Hicksville where they find a burned copy in the library there. First page and last two pages are pages from the Schoolbus zine.
Genre Satire; Adult
Script James Kochalka; Jason Cooley
Pencils James Kochalka; Jason Cooley
Inks James Kochalka; Jason Cooley
Letters James Kochalka; Jason Cooley
Notes Pages from the Schoolbus zine are presumably by Jason Cooley.

1 page Hicksville illustration "Emil Kopen, charicatured by Jova Sevec"

Characters Emil Kopen
Synopsis Charicature of Emil Kopen supposedly by Jova Sevec and published in Komek magazine in July of 1956.
Script Dylan Horrocks
Pencils Dylan Horrocks [as Jova Sevec]
Inks Dylan Horrocks [as Jova Sevec]
Letters Dylan Horrocks

1 page text article "100 Page Super Value Spectacular"

Synopsis List of what is in the issue with small pictures from Atlas and a large Drawn and Quarterly logo of Atlas (the Greek god).
Script Dylan Horrocks
Pencils Dylan Horrocks
Inks Dylan Horrocks
Colors Dylan Horrocks
Letters Dylan Horrocks