Wally Wood’s prozine eksperiment, lanceret med en “no policy” hensigt i det mest tresseragtige tresserår, 1966, har været temmelig svær at samle på, navnlig de tidlige numre, D’oh! Etteren går således for $75 på amazon, hvis man overhovedet kan finde den. Jeg er så heldig at eje nogle af de originale hæfter, men stor var min overraskelse, da jeg opdagede, at det gode forlag Fantagraphics vil samle alle 13 legendariske numre i to hc’er i kassette til formedelst en hundrede dollars, og at med amazon rabatten når vi ned under, hvad etteren ville koste på brugtmarkedet. witzend var trykt på kraftigt papir, og de originale hæfter fremstår derfor pæne i dag, men for mig at se, er det eneste fornuftige da at anskaffe sig genoptrykket. Frigør penge til andre dejlige ting, og alle er glade. witzend var forud for sin tid med at give tegnerne frit spil, og det var først langt senere, at man så mere af den slags på markedet.
Witzend Hardcover
Product Details
- Hardcover: 608 pages
- Publisher: Fantagraphics; 1 edition (May 31, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1606997440
- ISBN-13: 978-1606997444
amazon.com review:
This book collects one of the earliest (and most groundbreaking) indy-comic anthologies by influential creators such as Wallace Wood, Art Spiegelman, Frank Frazetta and many more.
When the formulaic constraints, censorious nature, and onerous lack of creator’s rights in mainstream comics got to be too much for the brilliant cartoonist Wallace Wood, he struck out on his own with the self-published witzend. It became a haven for Wood and his fellow professional cartoonist friends where they could produce the kind of personal work that they wanted to do, without regard to commercial demands — and with friends like Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Reed Crandall, Ralph Reese, Archie Goodwin, Angelo Torres, Steve Ditko, Harvey Kurtzman, Bill Elder, Art Spiegelman, Don Martin, Vaughn Bodé, Jim Steranko, Jeff Jones, Howard Chaykin, Trina Robbins, Bernie Wrightson, and literally dozens more, it was bound to be a great ride! Now, Fantagraphics presents the complete run of Witzend in this beautiful slipcased 2-volume set with a special introduction by Bill Pearson and a history by Patrick Rosenkrantz. Black and white with 26 pages of color