RIP OFF COMIX #22, (1977) MAR 1989, FREAK BROTHERS, WONDER WART-HOG, UNDERGROUND For Sale

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RIP OFF COMIX #22, (1977) MAR 1989, FREAK BROTHERS, WONDER WART-HOG, UNDERGROUND:
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RipOff Comix #22, (1977) March 1989, Freak Brothers, Wonder Wart-hog, GilbertShelton, Rip Off Press, Underground Comic, Near Mint Condition

Like the 18th issue, Rip Off Comix #22 doesn't have a specific theme, soonce again we just revert back to the old subtitle, "The InternationalReview of Comics." In this case, though, almost all of the content is fromAmerican creators. Chief among them is Gilbert Shelton, who provides theterrific front cover art.

Mary Fleener gets the issue off to a strong start with "The LongWay Home," which is based on a true story. It's after midnight in SanPedro, California, and Mary is stranded outside a sleazy rock club because her"slut girlfriend" has taken off with some creep to get laid. Marybums a ride home from a former boyfriend (who played in a band at the club) andthey end up picking up a hitchhiker on the Harbor Freeway. The hitchhiker, whois black and mute but uses written notes to communicate, leads Mary and her exup into a bad part of L.A., where two black guys jump into their van at a stoplight.

The situation is getting pretty hairy and Mary is freaking out, but itturns out that their hitchhiker has everything under much more control than sheor her ex-boyfriend would ever have guessed. Fleener, who quit art school andbecame a rock singer, has appeared in many women's comics anthologies and RipOff Press published her one-woman autobiographical series Slutburger in theearly '90s. No matter how bizarre her stories may get, Fleener has a knack forportraying them as "everywoman" tales that often make us think ofsimilar situations we were in ourselves. A lot of that is accomplished by notbeing judgmental about living one's life the way one sees fit. Fleener recentlyrevived her comic career with The Coast News in Encinitas, California, and hasher own website.

German cartoonist Charles Kaufman delivers a nice one-pager about twomen vacationing in eastern Europe and French cartoonist Pierre Ouin gives us apretty good story featuring his fiendish junkie Bloodi (as he did in issue#15). Wayne Honath follows with a funny one-pager starring Howie "TheHat" Patterson, but then we get an eight-page Douglas Michael tale,"My Life in Art," that limps along on a thin premise and ends with aweak plot twist.

The rest of the issue is fairly mediocre, and even Frank Stack can'tsave it with a Dr. Feelgood story (primarily because it features Dorman'sDoggie, the neurotic and unpleasant Ping). Apparently bereft of new material,Fred and Kathe Todd reprint a vintage Wonder Wart-Hog story ("WonderWart-Hog and the Merciless, Menacing, Masked Meanie!") to close themagazine. Issue #22 is not one of the stronger issues in the series, thoughShelton's front cover art is essential for Freak Brothers fanatics.

HISTORICAL FOOTNOTES:

It is currently unknown how many copies of this comic book were printed.It has not been reprinted. Like other magazine-format comics with numberedpages, the index of comic creators below follows the page numbers defined inthe magazine instead of counting the covers as additional numbered pages.

COMIC CREATORS:

Kathe Todd - editor, inside front cover (introduction)

Gilbert Shelton - front cover (art), 44-47 (art)

Guy Colwell - front cover (color), inside back cover (ad), back cover

Mary Fleener - 2-5

Bruce Bolinger - 6

Paul Andrew Ollswang - 7-12

Charles Kaufman - 13

Pierre Ouin - 14-19

Wayne Honath (aka Wayno) - 20, 36, 43-43

Douglas Michael - 21-28

Scott Nickel - 29

Frank Stack (aka Foolbert Sturgeon) - 30-35

Chris Harmon - 37-41

Tony Bell - 44-47 (script)

Hunt Emerson – 50

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