Raw 1980 #8 - 9.2 - $60.00

After Waldo overdoses, his spirit is visited by the devil's emissary.

A trio of cats play with a mouse.

A playful deconstruction of the Nancy comic strip character.

The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing. "RAW is published biyearly by RAW BOOKS & GRAPHICS, 27 Greene Street, NYC, NY 10013. It is not published by or affiliated with any other corporation or organization. Entire contents ? 1986 by Raw Books unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. We are not responsible for unsolicited submissions and, for the most part, are unable to respond. Send only non-returnable photocopies. ISSN-0742-4434 PUBLISHER: Fran?oise Mouly; DESIGN & PRODUCTION: Fran?oise Mouly; ASSISTANTS: Lisa Kleinberg-Elliot, Geoff Notkin, Santiago Cohen; SPECIAL THANKS TO: Deborah Bonner, Charles Burns, Steven Guarnaccia, Paul Karasik & Mark Newgarden.; TYPESETTING: Daniel Shapiro; Strong Silent Type; LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES: National Offset Plates, NYC; PRINTING: Malmar Graphics, NYC; BINDING: Advanced Graphics, LIC, NY"

• RAW Data - Brief blurbs on the artists; Brief editorial; table of contents; indicia and production credits; a list of other RAW publications
• Jailbreak Hotel - ?Rewrite by Paul Karasik and Art Spiegelman?
• Alliteration - A full page illustration accompanied by a brief poem by Dead End Kid Leo Gorcey. The poem is from ?Dead End Yells, Wedding Bells, Cockle Shells, and Dizzy Spells? (Vantage Press, 1967).
• The Beginning of the End - An excerpt from Boyer's book "By the Bomb's Early Light, American Thought and Culture At the Dawn of the Atomic Age" (Random House, 1985). The article also reprints a Harold Gray "Little Orphan Annie" strip from January 18, 1946, a few pages from a 1950 issue of "Real Life Comics" and the front cover to "Atomic War" #1 (all in small-size).
• - The story is entirely in duotone except for pgs. six & seven which have an orange-colored illustration superimposed with the main illustration.
• Advertisements - Eleven ads divided into comic-style panels. From NYC unless otherwise noted: Lambiek (Netherlands); Pantheon's "Love is Hell" book; Monkey's Retreat (Columbus, OH); Escape (London, UK); Lone Wolf Press (Cambridge, MA); Bad News #2 (NYC, NY); Fantagraphics (Agoura, CA); Sohozat; RAW lapel buttons; House Party; Catalan Communications. "Ads designed by Charles Burns, Drew Friedman, Rick Gallagher, Paul Karasik, Kaz, Fran?oise Mouly & Mark Michaelson."
• Maus, A Survivor's Tale (Chapter Seven): Mauschwitz - The beginning of Maus part II. Pgs. 154-79. A 9? x 6? (22.86 cm x 15.24 cm) insert bound to the magazine.
• Cats - From circa 1900.
• RAW Gagz - A series of 101 gag illustrations. Thirty-eight of the gag captions are written by the RAW staff. Also includes fourteen small text pieces by Tom De Haven entitled ?Gagz Amour.? The titled ones are: Andrew Shachat - "George's Fear of a Life After Death Proved Well Founded."; Bob Zoell- "Running Turtle With Six-Pack" & "What S-stinks?"; Brad Holland- "Smoke As Much As You Can"; "God, help this poor junkie."; "You can fucking well get your own breakfast."; Charles Burns- "Now go, Tubor! Go seek the arches!"; "Aww, come on Timmy... don't be afraid... I'm your secret little friend!"; Drew Friedman- "Just then it hit me... EVERYBODY in the joint had Acromegaly."; Ever Meulen- "There's nothing wrong that $500 won't fix"; Francis Masse- "Time's Up"; Frans Masereel- "Circle of Death"; "Back From the Front" Gary Panter- "Ouch! That's no worm!"; "Can't we ever come to the beach without those crazy old bankers killing someone to impress us?"; Harry Hershfield- "I'm telling you, Meyer, that he's singing "La Boheme"; "You can't tell till he's through= he's liable to switch, the last minute!!"; Howard Cruse- "Well, if I'd known you were brain-dead, I never would have brought it up!"; Infrarot- "Oh, it's daddy!! How long can you stay underwater?"; Joe Schwind- "Here Are People Just Like You Now Making Money Beyond Their Wildest Dreams!" Joost Swarte- "Nice of Henry to take me out once in a while"; Jorga Cardin- "Suburban Ambush"; Justin Green; "Debtor's Solace" "Conceptual Art"; Kamagurka- "Hello Mary, we're your new parents!"; "Happy Birthday, Mother!"; Kamagurka & Herr Seele "Cowboy Henk Goes to New York" approx. 11 pg strip; Mark Marek- "The way I see it, lady, as compared with corporate rape of underdeveloped countries, this ain't diddly-squat." "Whataya know, my headache's almost gone!"; Mark Newgarden- "See What I Mean?"; Mark Tansey- "Secret of the Sphinx"; "Still Life"; "Homage to Susan Sontag"; Marshall Arisman- "I hope I never get the plague."; Mary Ann Smith- "Try Our "All You Can Eat" - Special"; Muzo- "Lucky stiff... Not many people reach such a high poin in their life...."; "Look, I drew the road: It's here, in this corner, that I had the accident." "Listen old man, I want to go to Trifouillis sous Bois..."; Norman Dog- "That's what I forgot to pick up at the market... mushrooms!" Ollie Harrington "Body all achin' and wracked with pain... Tote that barge, life that bale..."; Pascal Doury- "For My Birthday, Natalie Made Me Some Noodles"; Peter Saul- "Donald Duck Descending a Staircase"; "Art & Life"; Placid- "Sorry Ladies, but The Boss has found a new secretary!"; Poussin- "Poor Folks... They've got a spermatozoid that didn't want to grow into a child..."; Richard Sala- "It was on a quite Tuesday evening, that my past finally caught up with me."; "There goes old Parker again." S. Clay Wilson "Eat your nice dick, dear..."; S. Kerlin- "Das Fritined Fraulein un der Largen Knackwurst"; "The Artist Who Exploited His Dog"; "For Years, Scientists Have Been Making Guinea Pigs Out of Mice"; S.J. Perelman- "Learn From the Art Game! Fun! Profit! Fame! Banana Oil!!"; Stuart Davis- "Some Masses Artists Seeking Inspiration" (from The Masses #55, January 1918); Tom Pappas- "And this is my wife, the Prehistoric Hog" Vitaly Komar; Alexander Melamid- "The Origin of Socialist Realism"; "Yalta Conference (From a History Textbook, 1984)
• Advertisements - Sixteen ads divided into comic-style panels. From NYC unless otherwise noted: Jamie Canvas; Art Buttons; Jimbo mugs by John de Fazio; Apex Novelties (Berkeley, CA); Amok's ?First Dispatch? (LA, CA); Life Cafe; Postcards sold by Glenn Bray (Sylmar, CA); Spring Street Books; The Weirdo Art of R. Crumb from Last Gasp (SF, CA); Top Drawer Rubber Stamp Co. (Hancock, VT); Wayside Music (Wheaton, MD); Scooby's Toys (Berkeley, CA); A Gary Panter print offered by Nathaniel Bohlin (Wilkes/ Barre, PA); Strong Silent Type; Village Comics. ?Ads designed by Charles Burns, Dave Cason, Eric Drooker, Rick Gallagher, Paul Karasik, Mark Newgarden, Gary Panter & Art Spiegelman.?
• - Back cover. ?Designer: Bill Kobasz?