FFF Results Post #235—Calamity

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name Five Comics, Comics Art Or Comics-Related Publications Of Yours You'd Save If You Could Only Save Five Of Your Comics." This is how they responded.

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Tom Spurgeon

1. A copy of TCJ #200
2. My dad's copy of Sick, Sick, Sick
3. The Early Morning Milk-Train
4. Galley Copy of Stan Lee
5. Dan Wright Original Art

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Michael Dooley

1. Help! #13 w/ "Goodman Goes Playboy" (1960s)
2. Breakdowns: From Maus to Now, An Anthology of Strips (1970s)
3. Stray Toasters (1980s)
4. The Acme Novelty Datebook #1 (1990s)
5. Kabuki: the Alchemy (2000s)

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Tom Neely

* first edition of Dunt Esk by Milt Gross
* first edition of God's Man by Lynd Ward
* original artwork by Gary Panter, Kim Deitch and Zak Sally (they're all hanging together next to the door, so i say they count as one)
* huge box of mini-comics collected from the last 12 years of conventions (they are all in one big box -- Yeah I know I'm cheating)
* Smithsonian Book of Comic Book Comics given to me by my grandmother when I was six yrs old

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Alan David Doane

1. Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus
2. From Hell HC
3. Eightball #22
4. X-Men #53
5. James Kochalka Comics Journal cover art recreation/commission

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Evan Dorkin

1. Bill and Ted's original art page inked by David Mazzucchelli
2. Jamie Hewlett original cover art
3. Jill Thompson original art page from the first Beasts of Burden story
4. Jaime Hernandez original art page from "Tear it Up, Terry Downe"
5. Our daughter Emily's Little Golden Book sketchbooks w/art by Clowes, Woodring, Gahan Wilson, et al. There's only two and they're small, can I include them both at #5? Jesus, Tom, she's only 5, and they're in the same bag, have a heart, fer chrissakes, we're talking Octoshark, here!

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Scott Dunbier

* Weird Science boxed set (part of the complete EC Library, published by Russ Cochran)
* Wally Wood Spirit In Outer Space two-page sequence
* Walter Simonson Manhunter pin-up
* Neal Adams Green Arrow pencil page
* Jack Kirby Captain America sketch

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Stergios Botzakis

1. Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge McDuck: His Life and Times
2. Mike Marek's Hercules Amongst the North Americans
3. Life in Hell box set
4. Fantastic Four #48
5. Blab! #7

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Uriel A. Duran

1) A hi-res PDF of the last short comic I've made
2) A copy of Fatalysia #3
3) A copy of the Fragments anthology
4) Vol. 1 of the Mexican Edition of Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
5) The folder where I keep most of the Xerox fanzines I made back in the '90s

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Buzz Dixon

1. All the masters & back-up digital files of my own comics projects: Serenity and Hits & Misses
2. Cerebus (might take 2 trips)
3. Deadbone Erotica by Vaughn Bode' (incredibly rare accidentally pulped Bantam edition)
4. Bob Kline's original ink drawing of 2 dinos fighting (more properly, a t. rex eating a hadrosaur)
5. My framed 13-cent overseas royalty check for writing for Tiny Toons Adventures

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Douglas Mullins

1. New Gods #3
2. Jimbo in Paradise
3. Locas I / Human Diastrophism (Please God Don't Make Me Choose -- They're Brothers!)
4. Tekkon Kinkreet
5. If 'n' Oof (I'm only halfway through)

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Tom Mason

* James Childress Conchy original
* Personal letter from Bill Watterson
* Malibu Comics photo album
* Dinosaurs For Hire rights reversion letter
* Sergio Aragones' original birthday drawing (for my birthday)

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Sean Kleefeld

1. My first comic: a now-coverless Batman #237 signed by Dick Giordano
2. Original art: Fantastic Four #33, page 2 by Salvador Larroca
3. The Smith Brown Jones "Instant Blues Kit" that I received from Jon Hastings. Consists of a half-sheet page of directions and a small, plastic harmonica.
4. Dr. Seuss' autograph (in red crayon) on Cat in the Hat stationery
5. Fantastic Four #500 Director's Cut signed by Mark Waid and Tom Brevoort

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Isaac Cates

1.) My robot sketchbook.
2.) My monkey sketchbook.
3.) Original art by Dylan Horrocks (a page of Hicksville).
4.) My inscribed copy of Eisner's Graphic Storytelling.
5.) The original art for my mini-comics.

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Max Fischer

1. Thirteen (Going on Eighteen) by John Stanley, as designed by Seth
2. Captain Easy: Soldier of Fortune by Roy Crane
3. Space Spells by Jesse Tise (the only self-published comic I have to my name)
4. WRAB: Pirate Television by Matt Howarth
5. Kramers Ergot 7

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Michael Grabowski

1. Fun With Milk And Cheese. With my world falling apart, a little comics mayhem will perk me up.
2. Throwing Muses Limbo T-shirt with Gilbert Hernandez art. If all I've got left is the shirt on my back, it should at least be a cool shirt.
3. Rubber Blanket #1. I'll need quick cash so this goes on ebay.
4. The Wolverton Bible for spiritual comfort in my time of woe.
5. Little Orphan Annie 1931 (Fantagraphics edition). To remind me that no matter how much I've lost, I don't need any of it to get by, I don't. I just need a plucky never-say-die spirit and the opportunity to work hard. And of course, no hand-outs 'cause those are for lazy people!

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Lane Milburn

1. Moebius The Airtight Garage Marvel Epic graphic novel
2. Japanese edition of Kamui-den with fancy dustjacket.
3. Old Garo issue.
4. Berserk volumes.
5. Raw vol.2 no.3

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David Paccia

* The Nearly Complete Essential Hembeck Archives Omnibus
* MAD's Greatest Artists: The Completely MAD Don Martin
* Ivan Brunetti's Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice
* Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes: The Walt Stanchfield Lectures (either Volume 1 or 2...or both if I can get away with it)
* Walt Disney's Mickey And The Gang: Classic Stories In Verse (Vintage magazine art 1934 - 1944)

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Douglas Wolk

1. Sketchbook with original four-panel strips by many amazing artists
2. "Watching Television" minicomic
3. Battered paperback copy of Asterix the Gladiator that was my Rosetta Stone for several languages
4. Signed Alan Moore script for Big Numbers #3
5. "Crime Bible" Moleskine

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John Platt

1. My signed, sketched, first-printing copy of Bone #1, which I bought for 25 cents long before Jeff Smith drew on it for me.
2. My ancient, ratty, war-torn copy of Captain America's Bicentennial Battles, which blew my 7-year-old mind when it first came out, and which continues to blow my mind today.
3. My even more tattered Limited Collectors' Edition Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes, which my brother and I terribly defaced with young-boy scribblings, but which smells like childhood.
4. My one piece of original Will Eisner art, which is really just some inked bricks around a photostat of the Spirit logo, but which is still pretty damn cool.
5. My copy of Muzzlers, Guzzlers and Good Yegs, which Joe Coleman not only signed, but in which he drew a tiny little portrait of me.

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Chad Nevett

1. Avengers West Coast #102
2. Absolute Authority vol. 1
3. Come in Alone, signed by Warren Ellis
4. Codeflesh, signed by Joe Casey
5. The Art of Jim Starlin since I just got it and it's what I'm obsessed with at the moment

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Will Pfeifer

1. My Russ Cochran Mad Archives set that Harvey Kurtzman signed
2. My pages of Finals original art by Jill Thompson
3. Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's Flex Mentallo mini-series
4. Wonder Warthog and the Nurds of November
5. The shoebox full of "Frog" comic books I drew as a kid

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Danny Ceballos

1. My dog-eared copy of Kramers Ergot 4
2. My first edition of James Thurber's Men, Women and Dogs
3. My autographed copy of Jim Woodring's The Portable Frank
4. Lynda Barry Original Art (titled "The Winter Visit of The Near Sighted Monkey")
5. George Carlson Original Art (circa 1927 ink illustration of "The General" Locomotive)

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Alistair Robb

1. From Hell -- Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell
2. Watchmen -- Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons & John Higgins
3. Astro City: Family Album -- Kurt Busiek & Brent Anderson
4. Love and Rockets: Chelo's Burden -- Los Bros Hernandez
5. Buddy Does Seattle -- Collected Hate Vol. 1 (#1 - #15)

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Matt Silvie

* Rare self-published Altergott Doofus mini
* Original Altergott drawing of Ween
* Original Woodring pencil drawing sketch for Frank volume 2 cover art
* Original Jim Blanchard drawing of this woman with an afro and one giant boob
* Charles Burns Stone Lithograph: Beyond Recognition, Signed and Numbered

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Nat Gertler

1. The GMP's According to Peanuts (a Peanuts storybooklet teaching folks at Coke bottling plants about the then-new food processing regulations.)
2. My Doonesbury original
3. The original art for It's a Municipal Holiday, Charlie Brown (Mike Bannon, working from a Derek McCulloch script)
4. Vic, The Viking Penguin -- Paul Smith original art, never reproduced
5. George Perez/Jim Mooney page from the unpublished Sgt. Pepper's movie adaptation

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Rich Tommaso

1. My Original Artwork
2. My R.Crumb German Sketchbook from 1983-87
3. Jimbo In Paradise
4. Sundays With Walt And Skeezix
5. Abandon The Old In Tokyo

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Trevor Ashfield

1. Overstreet's Price Guide 1977 (Porky Pig cover, Barks profile) -- this book blew my pre-adolescent mind: you mean there have been that many comics published!? And -- so that's who did the Duck comics! A gift from my mother, who bought it at a seedy head shop in "the big city" (Regina, Saskatchewan)
2. Fantastic Four #30 -- a gift from my Uncle Dave, who said he picked it from the "comic book tree" out by his garage (I was about 5 at the time). A pretty fun comic, besides.
3. A Dell comic featuring Porky Pig of the Mounties -- given to me by my friend Stephen King (no, not that one) from his wife's father's collection; date stamped with the name of the long-gone drug store in my home town -- the one where I first bought comics.
4. The Louis Riel graphic novel -- inscribed with a sketch by Chester Brown of Louis Riel himself saying "hello, Trevor", purchased at a signing at Comics Readers bookstore, Regina.
5. Le Portrait by Edmond Baudoin -- one of my favourite comics stories of all time; a fascinating examination of a relationship between an artist and his model.

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Philip Smith

1. Jaime Hernandez convention sketch
2. Evan Dorkin storyboard art
3. Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #141
4. Wonder Woman #178 (vol. 1)
5. Songs and Stories about the Justice League of America LP

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Grant Goggans

1. Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons
2. Bear Alley Books' Cursitor Doom collection
3. Action: The Story of a Violent Comic by Martin Barker
4. Thrill-Power Overload by David Bishop
5. original artwork of Sam and Samantha Slade by Fred Hembeck

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Y'all are a bunch of cheaters; a lot of you, anyway. I allowed it because of the nature of the subject plus I can imagine being consumed by the invading octo-sharks because you grabbed too much stuff. Just don't be shocked if in some future week I delete your e-mail.

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