moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) (08/09/85)
Well, we've all been discussing how funny some of the comics out lately have
been. There's AMBUSH BUG and STIG'S INFERNO and MEGATON MAN and KELVIN MACE
and GROO and others... however, nothing in the last 10 years ever made me
laugh as hard as Jim Engal & Chuck Fiala's Fandom Confidential, which ran
for about 4 to 5 years in THE COMIC READER was the supreme effort. Like
Marvel's FUMETTI, each monthly episode contained Jim & Chuck in six
photographs, with word balloons and pictures drawn in; unlike FUMETTI, it
was funny. Very funny. I remember once, when I was home from college over
Christmas break, Mom running into my room because a huge crash had resounded
from that general direction. This was because I had fallen out of bed.
THIS was because the fake letter to Marvel Fanboys from Jim Shooter Chuck
was reading had me laughing so hard I had forgotton where I was, not to
mention such mundane matters as breathing. Last year, a good subsection of
their stuff was reprinted in a Kitchen Sink publication, with six new pages
including some stuff by John Byrne. Great stuff.
Well, FC is back (I stopped reading COMICS READER once it left), for one
episode, with just Jim (he refers to Chuck as his "late" partner; however, I
saw Chuck in a fan photo from last week anyway -- what's going on?). It's
in this week's (August 16th cover date) issue of The Comic Buyer's Guide,
featuring Jim, Don & Maggie Thompson, the Krause publication staff, and tons
of Indpendent Type Comics People (no, not Will Eisner -- but he's there in
Spirit :-) (Ouch! I'm sorry, I'm sorry...)). Maybe if enough of us write
in, we could get Jim to continue publishing this in CBG! Maybe if ALL of us
write in, we can raise Chuck from the dead and have him in it too!
[Sung to "Supercalifragalisticexpyaladocious"]
"Pillage, rape and loot and burn, but all in moderation;
If you do the things we say, you soon will rule the nation;
Kill your foes and enemies, and then kill your relations
Pillage, rape and loot and burn, but all in moderation!"
A man who has no business being
anyone's role model ---> Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
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