Weirdo 1981 #15 - back issue - $9.00
Louie & Bulldozer hire police uniforms.
Phil & Bill go for the easy targets
The Bad boys find something in the bathroom.
The results from an informal "survey" Mary Fleener did where she showed issues of Weirdo to members of the general public. Includes actual quotes from the offended parties.
Doodles is ill
Bob's art style comes into question
Fake gin ad
Alien reproduction
Ruby takes revenge on a rapist
How assorted celebrities spend their time in hell
The horrors of big lips in junior high school.
Eight assorted cartoons
Uncle Hal's religious fanaticism after he came back from serving in World War II.
Kewpie recollects her past
Crumb's comment on Ayn Rand
1st printing: ? 2.50 USD; 2nd printing: ? 3.95 USD
- Weirdo number 15 - A brief Bagge editorial accompanied by a masthead logo and a small illustration. Includes letters from: Craig Yoe; Ben Adams (Yuba City, CA); Bess Powell (Washington, DC); B.N. Duncan; Steve Fiorilla
- Cool Stuff Now Available from Last Gasp of San Francisco - Brief blurbs for "Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead is Purely Coincidental," "R. Crumb's Early Weirdo Period," "Commies from Mars Anthology," "Love is Hell," "Zap #11," "Wimmen's Comix #10," "Best of Wimmen's Comix," "Dog Boy #6," "Viper," "Neat Stuff" and a "Weirdo" T-shirt.
- Comics From Other Planets Dept. - Entire strip dialogue is rendered in undecipherable squiggles
- - Strip has (presumably ironic) dedication to Chester Gould
- Famous People in Hell - Writer is just credited as Joe O.
- Here it is! The grand results of Weirdo's Ugly Art Contest! - Twenty-five illustrations featuring "ugly artmanship," some of them quite influenced by Basil Wolverton. The titled ones are "Pop Art" (Penny Moran); "The Rise and Fall of Ronzo's Colon" (Gary Ratto); "Sister 'T' Sees the Light" (William Clark); "Woman" (Brian James Riedel); "Foxy Lady" (Lori Washbon); "Dick-Face" (Grim); "Boogie Man" (Mothra); "Edie" (Jesse Bogart); "Ugly Madonna Fish" (Ken Weiner); "Fat Freddy's Cat on LSD" (Cy Bergie); "Junkie" (Andy Takakjian); "The Human Guinea Pig (Chris Elliot); "Ream me now lover!" (Bob Lewis); "Ping-pong, anyone?" (Ray Waters III); "Miss Congeniality" (Mary Fleener); "Nancy Sinatra?!?" (Joe Shea); "His Imperial Majesty" (M.G. Ottem)
- I Was a Teenage Fishlip - Credits identified from indicia
- Uncle Hal - "A true story" related to Bagge by Stephani K.
- Drawings from Raymond Pettibon's Tripping Corpse Magazine - Twenty-three small illustrations and one brief text piece. The titles/ first lines of dialogue are: "One Big Hint: Tiptoe Through the Tulips." "Greenwich Village Hates America"; "My First Bells." "Buy This Painting for $50"; "Even Yellow Submarine is poetry." "Student: I think it's time the academic community came to terms with the Beatles' major statement!" "O naked men clothed in napalmed burning screaming flesh..."; "Today is the worst day of the mess of your life"; "I could never make love with a guy who has short hair." "LSD almost destroyed MIT." "Shang-a-Lang"; "I was on acid when I drew this." "These crabs are gonna make me bust out of this commune!" "I've never gone this long without Marx." "Scenario for a Happening" (text piece); "Hippie Jesus's Leap of Faith"; "Republican Senator's Son"; "I feel light-headed." "Golden Gate Bridge"; "Life isn't Always a Groove!" "Stay High on Dangerous Drugs"; "Flowers for You, Diane, My Dear." "Mother, more than anyone-- Gridley, Pan, Tarzan, Coco---"; "Not a hippie at all."
- Murder on the Midway! - This ties in to a vast continuity of carnival stories created by Deitch
- Bazooka Blow - Signed as "Kazooka"
- Parting Shots - Back cover
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