Issue Details

Issue	#1
Published	November 1986
Cover Price	2.75 USD; 3.75 CAD
Pages	52
Editing	Tom Mason; Mark Waid (contributing editor); Kim Thompson (contributing editor)
Notes	Issue features interviews with Don Martin and Mark Marek, including reproduction of strips and illos.

Cover Details

Genre	Humour
Pencils	Don Martin
Inks	Don Martin
Colors	Don Martin
Notes	Cover also contains a smaller Phil Elliott illustration.

5 page Cartoon Man story "Artoon"

Synopsis	A play on cartoons and realistic illustration
Genre	Humour
Script	Marc Hempel
Pencils	Marc Hempel
Inks	Marc Hempel
Letters	Marc Hempel

2 page story "The Gournets From Planet X"

Synopsis	An alien invasion where the aliens are looking for snot.
Genre	Humour
Script	Chester Brown
Pencils	Chester Brown
Inks	Chester Brown
Letters	Chester Brown
Notes	When reprinted in Best Comics of the Decade, the reason this was chosen was because Fantagraphics already had the film for it and Chester Brown was too lazy to send them anything else (as per Chester Brown in the notes for The Little Man).
Reprinted	in Little Man, The (Drawn & Quarterly, 2006 series) #[nn]; in Best Comics of the Decade (Fantagraphics, 1990 series) #?

2 page story "Comic Strips For The '90s"

Genre	Humour
Script	Bob Boze Bell
Pencils	Bob Boze Bell
Inks	Bob Boze Bell
Letters	Bob Boze Bell
Notes	Selection of cartoons

2 page story "Grape Jam"

Synopsis	A young grape goes bad
Genre	Humour
Script	Gary Whitney
Pencils	Gary Whitney
Inks	Gary Whitney
Letters	Gary Whitney

1 page Temptation story

Characters	Castaway; Devil
Synopsis	The devil is after a soul
Genre	Humour
Script	Glenn Dakin
Pencils	Glenn Dakin
Inks	Glenn Dakin
Letters	Glenn Dakin
Reprinted	in Temptation (Penguin, 1991 series) #[nn]

1 page story "Laffin' Yups"

Characters	Eddie; Steve
Synopsis	Two yuppies meet
Genre	Humour
Script	J.R.Williams
Pencils	J.R.Williams
Inks	J.R.Williams
Letters	J.R.Williams

Half page Growin' Up Weird story "Radio, Radio"

Synopsis	How music affects people
Genre	Humor
Script	J.R.Williams
Pencils	J.R.Williams
Inks	J.R.Williams
Letters	J.R.Williams

Half page Growin' Up Weird story "Seeds Of Discontent"

Synopsis	Has Top 40 radio changed?
Genre	Humor
Script	J.R.Williams
Pencils	J.R.Williams
Inks	J.R.Williams
Letters	J.R.Williams

Half page Growin' Up Weird story "The Home Front"

Synopsis	TV cartoons
Genre	Humor
Script	J.R.Williams
Pencils	J.R.Williams
Inks	J.R.Williams
Letters	J.R.Williams

1 page A Tale From Gimbley story

Characters	Gimbley
Synopsis	Gimbley might have found a friend
Genre	Humour
Script	Phil Elliott
Pencils	Phil Elliott
Inks	Phil Elliott
Letters	Phil Elliott

4 page story "Look Out! It's The Squirt"

Characters	The Squirt; Kelly; Mother; Father; Cappy
Synopsis	The Squirt's parents go for a movie
Genre	Humour
Script	Mort Todd
Pencils	Dan Clowes
Inks	Dan Clowes
Letters	Dan Clowes

1 page True Humor story "The Fabulous Ones"

Characters	Professor Bean
Synopsis	Thoughts about humor
Genre	Humor
Script	Eddie Campbell
Pencils	Eddie Campbell
Inks	Eddie Campbell
Letters	Eddie Campbell

1 page True Humor story "Moby Dick"

Characters	Professor Bean
Synopsis	Thoughts about humour
Genre	Humor
Script	Eddie Campbell
Pencils	Eddie Campbell
Inks	Eddie Campbell
Letters	Eddie Campbell

1 page story "The Graphic Genius Of M.C. Escher"

Characters	M.C. Escher
Synopsis	M.C. Escher's art
Genre	Biography
Script	David Miller
Pencils	David Miller
Inks	David Miller
Letters	David Miller

5 page story "Rodney: The Premonition II"

Characters	Rodney
Genre	Humour
Script	Eddie Campbell
Pencils	Phil Elliott
Inks	Phil Elliott
Letters	Phil Elliott
Notes	Originally serialised as single tier strips in the British music paper Sounds

1 page story "1947"

Synopsis	What if you woke up and it was 1947
Genre	Humour
Script	Marc Hempel
Pencils	Marc Hempel
Inks	Marc Hempel
Letters	Marc Hempel

1 page story "My Mother's An Alcoholic"

Genre	Humour
Script	Brian James Riedel
Pencils	Brian James Riedel
Inks	Brian James Riedel
Letters	Brian James Riedel