Read Yourself Raw 1987book - 7.5 - $45.00
Table of contents, dedications, copyright and indicia info.
This introduction discusses exactly how Raw came about. All eight covers of the magazine are shown.
Piker has trouble crossing the street.
A hard boiled story told using first person point of view. The narrator is in New York, having fled Paris on impulse.
A cerebral deconstruction of the comics page. A series of unconnected panels where the thought balloons have squares and triangles inside them rather than words.
A brief bio of Alfred Jarry
A send-up of superhero comics and the fine art world as well.
A man attempting suicide by jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge has trouble completing the task.
Amy and Jordan are on the run after strange creatures turn up dead outside their home.
Mayberry's townfolk don't take kindly to a black man visiting their town.
A sendup of pulp detective stories involving a man eating in a diner.
Anton Makasarr has promised his wife to come back home no later than 11 p.m.
The story of Charlie Bendix, who gained a fortune only to lose it all and in the end found peace of mind.
A nearly wordless story of a hunter who instructs his hound to go into a rabbit burrow.
A wordless page packed with illogical details.
Amy and Jordan bring in a stray dog they found. The dog eats some of Jordan's bubblegum cards and leaves. The duo go out and try to track him down.
A series of eight trading cards
Manny Pep, the last of the Pep Boys, looks back on his life.
A wordless story in Kaz's unique style involving a thief, a stolen gift and a long chase scene.
Anton Makasarr talks about the virtues of trash.
Jimbo walks the desert by himself in this sendup of Native American wannabes.
A man getting dressed finds his own reflection right behind him in this wordless story.
Mouly critiques corporate and consumerist attitudes towards food. The article includes Art Young's "Capitalism" cartoon.
Mr. Wilcox and Mr. Conrad, two men in their fifties, meet up in a bar and discover they have some things in common. Unfortunately, Mr. Conrad doesn't realize that their meeting was no accident.
Mr. Conrad finds out what Mr. Wilcox is in New York for.
Excerpts from Vesco de Kereven's "On the Adolescent's Solitary Pleasures" are used to mock puritanical ideas on masturbation.
An experimental text with illustration about sentences that are stuck in the mind.
An experimental photomontage piece involving a baby's obsession with toy model cars.
A worldless comic depiction of an urban automobile crash
A wordless comic within a comic. A woman experiences a nightmare after reading a horror comic.
Brief bios on the creators with a small drawing from each.
On how Dog-Boy came to be.
Compiles only some of the contents from the first three issues of Raw magazine.
- Read Yourself Raw - Title and publisher page
- - The copyright section spells Eddy Vermeulen as 'Eddie.'
- Two Fisted Painters - This and the story that follows are a 5.25" x 8" (13.33 cm x 20.32 cm) insert.
- The Graphix Magazine for Damned Intellectuals - This illustration is titled "The Comix Factory"
- City of Terror - A series of "City of Terror" trading cards are included right between these pages.
- The Girl Can't Help It... - Meulen signs the page both with his name and with his "Eddy Flippo" pseudonym.
- - Back cover promo and media quotes for the book accompanies an illustration.
