Weirdo 1981 #27 - 8.0 - $18.00

The joys of catholicism

Up-Chux can throw up spontaneously

Recollections of a summer job in the broom factory

Mode is persuaded to become a partner in a new restaurant.

The price of free coffee.

How to find the ideal psychiatrist

Carol is wooed by a prince.

Jack's boss is fried.

Bill and Dick have to deliver a truckload of beer.

Julie finds some boxes on the way home from work

A piercing studio offers to nail testicles to a plank.

Recollections of a co-worker.

Lloyd's prelude to the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.

Stories about Tasmanian butchers.

Julie's body temperature is 140 degrees!

Julie traces the history of her necklace

Musings on life and society.

Mike's individual bedroom decoration.

Aline's observations about what's being left behind in the USA

Lisa justifies walking away from her Weirdo employment. The second page includes a cartoon strip from "Dream Date Contest Winner" T. Earl.

Price rise with this issue as does the page count.

• A Word to the Wise - Harvey praises Terry Laban's "Unsupervised Existence," Daniel Clowes' "Eightball" and Chester Brown's "Ed the Happy Clown." A Kominsky-Crumb masthead illustration is included.
• The Kiss Off Issue of Weirdo - A Kominsky-Crumb editorial, spot illustration and masthead logo are accompanied by letters from "A Fan in Sacto;" Sandee Bass (Sacto., Calif.); Britt Ivie (Austin, Texas); Jazon Royle (Kansas City, MO); Joe Robertson (Bethesda, MD); Beth Lewis (Burke, VA); Kun Kim (Bayville, N.Y.); Brett List (Scarborough, Ontario).
• Put a Bag on it!! - A tiny ad for back issues of Weirdo.
• Little Up-Chux - Three one-tier strips titled "The News with Up-Chuck," "Have My Lunch" and "Rejected Meat." Gross.
• Ma T?te est une Boite - Title translates as My Head Is A Box. Redone as "Poor Me!" in Dirty Plotte #7 according to the letters page in that issue.
• - In "Twisted Sisters" this is titled "Vive la Difference."
• Simple and Complex - The story incorporates a painting by Friederike Rheinheimer and a poem by Vinograd.
• - Back cover.