Jab pub #344

Roughly 8¼ x 10¾".

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In 1987 Steve Willis announced that he was killing his Morty the Dog character for good this time (or so he said). So the team of Hal Hargit and David Tosh got a bunch of cartoonists together to produce this thick  "affectionate tribute/roast/eulogy" for the character (and his creator, of course).

Highlights include:
* Morty meets Fritz the Cat (courtesy of D. Tosh)
* a gorgeous Morty centerspread by Jeff Gaither
* Steve Willis as a Matt Feazell stick character
* Wayno's story in which Morty meets Howie the Hat (sort of) and speaks only in lines from classic R&B songs
* Ted Bolman's "The Mortys Steve Didn't Draw"
* an 8½ × 11" fold-out jam by Willis and most of the contributors

Cardstock covers
Includes fold-out centerspread.

Zap Comix tribute issue. Contents include a centerspread "paste-up phunny" collage piece featuring Zap imagery and a jam comic by D. Tosh, Denis Kitchen, Bill Sienkiewicz, Don Simpson, Larry Marder, Mark David Dietz and Mark Stokes.

There may be more contributors than listed above.

Initial entry created from an ad in Fan Scene #3 (Kevin Collier, 1985).

Initial entry created from an ad in Fan Scene #3 (Kevin Collier, 1985).

Printed in a flipbook format where half of the book is work by Tosh and the other half is full of jam comix by Tosh and others.

Cardstock cover.

Jim Thompson drawing under the pseudonym 'Monty Carlo'.

Phenomenal jam comix project organized by Brad W. Foster. Each artist contributed one page which built upon and furthered the pages completed before them.

Appearances by Gregor Samsa, Franz Kafka and cockroach-y versions of Moe Howard and Laurel & Hardy.

Full-color covers on coated stock.

1st printing: 1983, 150 copies
2nd printing: 1983, 20 copies

There may be other contributors than listed above.

Possibly published by Jim Thompson / Cheap Publishing Empire.

Initial entry created from an ad in Fan Scene #3 (Kevin Collier, 1985).

This was a project put together by Edd Vick which consists of eight mini-comics all with the title "Serial Killer" and all by cartoonists who were living in the Dallas / Ft. Worth area at the time the project was conceived. I believe each contributor actually published their minis and Vick sold them as sets.

64 pages total (plus wrap)
Numbered edition of 100

I believe it was originally released in shrink wrap.

Part of Edd Vick's Serial Killer mini-comics set.

The first was The Book of Man, the contributors to which all had "man" in their names. For this volume, all of the contributors have "son" in their names.

Initial entry created from an ad in Fan Scene #3 (Kevin Collier, 1985).

1988?

Music-themed issue.

Characters appearing in art or comics include Albert Einstein, Elvis Presley, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Charlie Parker.