BLAB! VOL. 10 / MONTE BEAUCHAMP (ED.) — Blab 10: Jokes! Gags!

Fantagraphics 1998 Very first edition of Fall 1998 112 p., numerous(mostly) colour drawings and cartoons, 25 x 26 cm. SOFTCOVER: (Original pictorial col. boards,VERY GOOD / AS NEW EXTREMELY RARE and sought after this very first edition of Fall 1998 Other versions of this comic book are from 1999 and even later (even 2005). Since the demise of the groundbreaking Raw nearly a decade ago, the vaguely annual Blab has become the premier showcase for comics as art. The latest edition features leading names in the field and some promising newcomers. Standouts include Peter Kuper's paean to porn, Al Columbia's vision of the Apocalypse that resembles an old black-and-white Max Fleischer film cartoon, Spain's autobiographical story of a visit to a degenerate carny, Richard Sala's take on German expressionistic film, Pamela Butler's feverishly sexual Red Riding Hood drawings (mature readers only here), and a Rocket Sam tale by Chris Ware, who does more in two pages than most artists can accomplish in an entire graphic novel. Raw mainstay Gary Panter makes his Blab debut with an uncharacteristic, rather inconsequential illustration.