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1998, Krause Publications
“Comic of the Absurd”
editors, Don Thompson and Dick Lupoff
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Nine page essay on the comic art and writing of George Carlson, creator of the 1940’s comic “Jingle Jangle Tales”
Reprints
- All In Color For A Dime, including the “Comic of the Absurd” essay, originally appeared in [publication information unknown]
- “Comic of the Absurd” also appeared, in Harlan Ellison’s Hornbook, 1990; and Edgeworks 3, 1997
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“Comic of the Absurd”
writer, Harlan Ellison
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Nine page essay on the comic art and writing of George Carlson, creator of the 1940’s comic Jingle Jangle Tales
Reprints
- All In Color For A Dime, including the “Comic of the Absurd” essay, were reprinted in All In Color For A Dime, 1998, Krause Publications
- “Comic of the Absurd” later appeared, in Harlan Ellison’s Hornbook, 1990; and Edgeworks 3, 1997
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July 7, 1989, Krause Publications
Review of Batman movie reprinted from Ellison’s Fantasy & Science Fiction column “Watching”
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Issues 80,83,84,90, and others, Fantagraphics Books
Various issues of The Comics Journal feature essays and columns by Ellison, mostly reprints of the “Watching” column.
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Issue 598, March 1989, DC Comics
Batman Tribute
writer, Harlan Ellison; art, Todd McFarlane
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A brief text tribute by HE celebrating Batman’s 50th Anniversary, illustrated by the cover to Batman #423. Similar tributes appeared in Detective Comics #598-600 by a variety of comic artists and writers, and other non-comics figures such as Terry Gilliam, Thomas M. Disch, Eric Van Lustbader, Samuel R. Delaney, and Penn & Teller.
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December 1988, Playboy Entertainment
“It Ain’t Toontown”
writer, Harlan Ellison
Essay by Ellison on comics, renamed by editors
Reprints
- “It Ain’t Toontown” later appeared, under its original title “Did Your Mother Throw Yours Out?,” as Appendix E in Harlan Ellison’s Hornbook, 1990; and Edgeworks 3, 1997
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Issue 151, 1980, James Van Hise ($3.95)
“Basilisk”
art and adaptation, Bret Blevins;
“Soldier”
art and adaptation, Kerry Gammil
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