WEIRDO #21
52 pages. Saddlestitched. Black and white illustrations throughout. 8.4 x 10.75″ x 0.1″. First Printing. Last Gasp, 1987.
Features: “How My Family Encouraged Me to Become an Artist!”, script and art by Dori Seda. Harvey Sez column; Harvey Pekar bemoans the lack of artistically ambitious comic books. “Moo Goo Gai Pan,” script and art by Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Aline’s family love to eat, but hate to cook. “Footsy,” script and art by Robert Crumb; How Crumb played footsie with girls in his class. “The Cockeyed Cook Story,” script and art by Mark Zingarelli; William Cook’s life of crime. “Un-covered Property: A Short Study in Family Dynamics,” script and art by Carol Tyler; The pre-pubescent Carol doesn’t understand why she can’t go topless. “TV Evangelist,” script and art by Michael Dougan; Dougan’s grandmother is fleeced of her possessions by an unscrupulous preacher. “I Had a Dream Last Nite,” script and art by Aline Kominsky-Crumb.
"Picking up where Zap left off, Weirdo defined a new aesthetic for the '80s, opening the way towards a new wave of comics literacy for a generation of outcasts, oddballs and revolutionaries. Weirdo #20, helmed by Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Dori Seda, Mary Fleener, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, R. Crumb, Zingarelli, Luna Ticks, Carol Tyler, Elle, Justin Green and Michael Dougan. Cover by Robert Crumb.