FFF Results Post #289—Comic And City

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name Four Periodical Format Comics And Then Name The Real-World City That Connects Them All In Your Memory And Why That Is." This is how they responded.



Tom Spurgeon

1. Boom Boom #2 (David Lasky)
2. Twitch (Justin Hampton)
3. Ink Blot (Ward Sutton)
4. Love Looks Left (Tom Hart)
5. Seattle. These are all comics by younger cartoonists I encountered during my early days in Seattle in the 1990s and feel to me emblematic of that time and place.

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Michael Dooley

1. Not Brand Echh #1
2. Squa Tront #1
3. Witzend #2
4. Zap #1
5. Brooklyn. These publications kept me company in 1967, the first year I lived completely on my own.

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Eric Reynolds

1. Hate (Peter Bagge)
2. Black Hole (Charles Burns)
3. Jar of Fools (Jason Lutes)
4. Real Stuff (Dennis Eichhorn)
5. Seattle. These are simply four comics I greatly associate with my formative years in early-to-mid 1990s Seattle.

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Buzz Dixon

1. Yogi Bear Visits The U.N. ("Hanna and Barbera")
2. The Lost World 1960 movie tie-in (Gil Kane)
3. Walt Disney's Family Fun Giant #38 (Carl Fallberg / Tony Strobl /Steve Steere)
4. King Kong (Alberto Giolitti)
5. Manhattan. My grandmother & aunt took me to NYC in 1960 where we saw (among other things) the Irwin Allen version of The Lost World (even at age 6 I was grossly disappointed at the use of lizards for dinosaurs!). When we came back home I bought the Yogi Bear book b/c it was about a place I had actually visited. My grandmother brought Family Fun #38 when she came to visit; it had "The Prehistoric Duck" which I recognized instantly as a riff on The Lost World (only with much better dinosaurs!!!). I encountered the 1968 Gold Key version of
King Kong much, much later but by then dinosaurs & the Big Apple were intertwined in my mind (hey, you could also throw Wally Wood's Big Apple Comix in there as well!).

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Joe McCulloch

* Deathmate: Black (Jim Lee, etc.)
* Splitting Image #1 (Don Simpson)
* Shadowhawk III (Valentino, Wolf)
* Trencher #1 (Keith Giffen)
* Wyoming, Pennsylvania. All bought off a spinner rack in a waxy corner in an almond & orange peel-colored Mccrory's in the Midway Shopping Center in Wyoming, PA; unexpected Image Revolution outpost, but there were many surprises in 1993. I came back whenever I was around, looking for Deathmate: Red, but it never came, and they put the rack away, and then I was grown up.

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Mark McMurray

* Swamp Thing, Vol. 2 #1 (DC Comics)
* Bizarre Adventures #33 (Marvel Comics)
* Third Rail (fanzine)
* Vanguard #3 (Pacific Comics)
* Lake Hopatcong, NJ. Back in the early '80s Tom Yeates lived in Lake Hopatcong. My Dad struck a friendship with him, so, on many visits to his place, I was fortunate to be around and see some cool comic related stuff including: watching John Totleben inking portions of some of the early Yeates Swamp Thing (vol 2) issues which segued into his doing samples with Steve Bissette to try to land the gig (at Tom's recommendation)! When I saw those sample pages, they nearly blew my mind! Around this time, I also got to hear a firsthand account about the creation of the Varnae vampire story for Bizarre Adventures (where they glued an actual dead fly into a panel). I love(d) the art for this and enjoyed getting insight into the creation of such an awesome piece of work. I first saw and acquired Ken Feduniewicz's awesome fanzine Third Rail at Tom's place. He would frequently try to persuade and encourage the completion of #2, to no avail! Lastly, my Dad and I modeled for the father and son in the Yeates-illustrated story "Be It What It Will, I'll Go To It Laughing" for Vanguard #3! All reference pictures were taken out and around his place on a snowy winter day! Good times!

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RM Rhodes

1. De Toren by Schuiten and Peeters
2. Brusel by Schuiten and Peeters
3. De Onzichtbare Grens by Schuiten and Peeters
4. De Pooten naar het Mogelijke by Schuiten and Peeters
5. The last time I was in Amsterdam, I went to the Lambiek comic store and bought a pile of Schuiten and Peeters books. I didn't realize until later that they were in Flemish, not French. I now have a small pile of very beautiful, very alien comics that I always associate with the city of Amsterdam.

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Danny Ceballos

1. Fear #2 (Jack Kirby, various)
2. Zap #1 (R. Crumb)
3. I Go Pogo (Walt Kelly)
4. Haunted #1 (Steve Ditko)
5. Appleton. These are all comics I found over the last year in Appleton thrift stores.

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Mark Coale

1. Animal Man #24
2. Swamp Thing #150
3. Batman/Grendel #1
4. Batman: Legends of Dark Knight Halloween Special
5. San Diego -- all feature characters that I got a sketch of at my first SD Comic-Con

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M. Emery

1. Strumming Teeth #13 (Andy Conlan)
2. Jesus on a Stick #4 (Various, edited by Chris Knox)
3. Pickle #2 (Dylan Horrocks)
4. Anal Atrocities #1 (Karl Wills, E. McWilliams)
5. Auckland. I only got to visit New Zealand's largest City a few times in my teens and usually only for a day. Each time it involved a mad dash around the City to find any New Zealand comics. These were some of the first ones I found.

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Justin Colussy-Estes

1. Big Deal Comics & Stories (Patrick Dean)
2. Journal of MODOK Studies (Robert Newsome)
3. I've Lost My Spots (Eleanor Davis)
4. Firefly Waltz (T Edward Bak)
5. Athens, Georgia. In the wake of 9/11 forcing the cancellation of SPX, lots of local shows cropped up. The Southeast's answer was FLUKE, and it's always a blast. I got these minis at those early FLUKEs, and made many a friend.

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editor's note: you people suck at following format

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