Writers / Artists: Jim Ryan

12-month calendar for 1986 with each month a two-page spread illustrated/designed by the contributing artists. Also, the centerspread contains six cartoon collaborations by various combinations of the contributors and each drew one of the letters or numbers on the cover.
Cardstock cover.
Appearance by Morty the Dog.
MUPubs #038

#79 in Jay Kennedy's Official Underground and Newave Comix Price Guide.


#185 in Jay Kennedy's Official Underground and Newave Comix Price Guide.

A couple of the strips are on the theme of "whatever happened to the hippies?".
#192 in Jay Kennedy's Official Underground and Newave Comix Price Guide.
4 × 5¼"


Cardstock cover

Signed/numbered edition of 100.

Insect-themed comix.
8 pages on cardstock

There may be more contributors than listed above.

Some of the contents include: a two-page jam comic by George Erling and Craig Yoe, an eight-page Morty the Dog comic by Steve Willis
Characters appearing in art and comics include: Morty the Dog, Beanworld
Fewer than 50 copies usually printed (probably more like 25).
Centrail Mailer for this issue: George Erling

Some of the contents include: Mike Kazaleh's comics adaptation of Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues", Hank Arakelian's four-page article on Gustave Verbeck's "Incredible Upsidedowns", and a couple of (presumably previously unpublished) Frank Thorne sketches.
Characters appearing in art and comics include: Superswine, Pogo, Harold (he of the Purple Crayon), Gumby and Morty the Dog.
Fewer than 50 copies usually printed (probably more like 25).

Characters appearing in art and comics include: Sylvester Stallone / Rambo, Linus Van Pelt, Dr. Doom, Dr. Radium and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
This issue also came with a copy of Shel-Tone Catalog #2 (1993).
Fewer than 50 copies usually printed (probably more like 25).


Some of this issue's contents: Mark Campos' E.C. Comics-reminiscent cover, Brian Buniak's indepth analysis of Don Bluth's Thumbelina, a fold-out Buniak poster, a four-page jam comic between Gary Usher, Jeff Zenick and Jim Conatser.
Characters appearing in art and comics include: Bullwinkle Moose, Superman, Christopher Reeve, George Reeves, Margot Kidder, Noel Neill, Bert and Ernie, Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Snuffleupagus and Morty the Dog.
This issue also includes a Buniak flyer insert.

Some of this issue's contents: a Pee-Wee Herman fold-out poster by Buniak, Gary Usher's three-page comics adapation of Gary Roberts and the Satellites' "Do You Know the Difference Between Big Wood and Brush", Max Traffic's original zebra print (on heavy stock), candid photos of actresses Linnea Quigley and Lois Maxwell.
Characters appearing in art and comics include: Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Pepe LePew, Daffy Duck, Opus the penguin, Danny DeVito's Penguin, Judd Hirsch, Tim Burton, Sean Young, Kim Basinger, Warren Beatty, Yosemite Sam, Michigan J. Frog, Cher, Madonna, Melanie Griffith, Raquel Welch, Ellen Barkin, Lena Olin, Annette Bening, the Cat in the Hat, Hobbes, Barney Fife / Don Knotts, Felix the Cat, Garfield, Arsenio Hall, Danny Bonaduce, Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Some of this issue's contents: a couple of pages of Gene Deitch drawings (from the Record Changer, I think), Scott Saavedra's story of meeting Jack Kirby, a reprinting of the George Erling / Craig Yoe jam cover to Cartoon Loonacy #4, a fold-out with a Bill Holman "Smokey Stover" strip on one side and a Gene Ahern "Squirrel Cage" on the other, Brian Buniak's "How Not to Write Elfquest: New Blood", Buniak's three-page article on the film "Jack the Giant Killer", Buniak's fold-out poster of Bernie Goetz (!).
Characters appearing in art and comics include: Laurel and Hardy, Rocko's Modern Life, Nancy Ritz, Little Lulu, cast of Beverly Hills 90210, Ted Kennedy, Bart Simpson.
Fewer than 50 copies usually printed (probably more like 25).

Some of this issue's contents: a jam page by Steve Willis & Hank Arakelian based on Gustave Verbeck's "Upsidedowns"; a foldout poster of Rhett Butler & Scarlett O'Hara by Brian Buniak.
Characters appearing in art and comics include: Morty the Dog, TMNT, Hobbes, Madonna, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arsenio Hall, Tom Cruise, Danny DeVito, Ed Sullivan, Ralph Kramden / Jackie Gleason, the Three Stooges, Jack Benny, Rochester, Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh.
Gary Fields provides a two-panel sneak peek at "The Toonage Mutant Ninja Turtle", a 17-page Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles story that was originally intended for "a TMNT special which was canceled before it saw print" (for the Archie line, I believe).
This issue also included two flyer inserts.
Fewer than 50 copies usually printed (probably more like 25).

Some of this issue's contents: a cartoon tribute to MAD Magazine's Alfred E. Neuman (originally done for the San Diego con program) by Pete Fitzgerald; a five-page "Romwald vs the State" comic by Vince Kimszal, Tim Corrigan and Brian Buniak originally planned for the Comix Unlimited fanzine in the mid '70s but never published; a foldout poster by Brian Buniak of Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan the Barbarian.
Characters appearing in art and comics include Garfield & Odie, Batman, Davy Crockett, Green Lantern, Bugs Bunny, Jughead, Archie, Casper, Space Ghost, Mickey Mouse and They Might Be Giants' John Linnell and John Flansburgh.
This issue also included two flyer inserts.
Fewer than 50 copies printed (probably more like 25).

Some of this issue's contents: "Surrealism", a two-color collage illustration by Jim Ryan; two installments of 'Sherlock Holmes' Crime Scene Chronicles' by Jack C. Harris and Howard Bender.
Characters appearing in art and comics include: the Yellow Kid, Frankenstein, Mr. Spock, Mr. T, Herve Villechaize, Ralph Kramden / Jackie Gleason, W.C. Fields, Abraham Lincoln.
This issue also came with a glossy 10 × 8" promo illustration of the Three Stooges by Brian Buniak.
Despite what the cover says this is issue #44.
Fewer than 50 copies printed (probably more like 25).
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