CATALOG RECORD

Rip Off Comix #19

Rip Off Press · Series began 1977 · [Summer] 1988

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Dates

Cover date: [Summer] 1988
On sale: 1988
Pages: 52

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

pencils: Gilbert Shelton, Mary Fleener, Willem, Scott Nickel, Joe Lee, Ace Backwords, R. L. Crabb, Mike McGetrick, Terry LaBan, Ronn Foss, Dennis Worden, Lindsay Arnold, Bruce Bolinger, Wayne Honath, Larry Todd, Guy Colwellinks: Gilbert Shelton, Mary Fleener, Willem, Scott Nickel, Joe Lee, Ace Backwords, R. L. Crabb, Mike McGetrick, Terry LaBan, Ronn Foss, Dennis Worden, Lindsay Arnold, Bruce Bolinger, Wayne Honath, Larry Todd, Guy Colwellcolors: Guy Colwellscript: Kathe Todd, Gilbert Shelton, Mary Fleener, Willem, Scott Nickel, Joe Lee, Ace Backwords, R. L. Crabb, Mike McGetrick, Terry LaBan, Ronn Foss, Dennis Worden, Lindsay Arnold, Bruce Bolinger, Wayne Honath, Larry Toddletters: Gilbert Shelton, Mary Fleener, Scott Nickel, Joe Lee, Ace Backwords, R. L. Crabb, Mike McGetrick, Terry LaBan, Ronn Foss, Dennis Worden, Lindsay Arnold, Bruce Bolinger, Wayne Honath, Larry Todd

Stories

Pied Piper of Hamel(i)n · 5 pages
Fat Freddy's Cat tells his nephews a story about how one of his ancestors was enlisted to take care by any means necessary The Pied Piper of Hamelin.
Just Another Gig · 2 pages
A woman pulls a knife on Mary as she's getting ready for a gig in a small lesbian bar.
Cold War · 5 pages
How the Soviet Union in the 1950s invented rock music to corrupt the West as Yuri reports his son to the authorities for decadence.
merf 'n eedle · 1 pages
How everyone in Los Angeles seems to be striving to be in the entertainment industry in one form or another.
Perchance ta Canasta · 8 pages
Mr. Gumshoe is hired to find Mr. Worthington's vanished star ballet student in this parody of private investigator stories.
The Good 'Ole Dreadful Dud Go Punk! · 1 pages
Trying to stay contemporary, Dreadful Dud band members Bob Weird and Hairy Garcia disguise themselves as punks in order to check out the local punk scene.
The Green Stuff · 4 pages
R. L. and friends go to a rock concert where someone finds a drug stash on the ground containing a vial with some odd-looking green stuff.
Rock Starr · 2 pages
Two single-page strips- Rocky wonders why he's in the music business and he's sad because his guitar's in the pawn shop.
Bill's Band · 3 pages
Things go awry for The Handjobs rock band at a high school variety show.
Take It All Off! · 1 pages
A man pursues a woman whose true appearance is not what he expected.
F.T.W. · 4 pages
The homeless Stickboy deals with living in the park as he scrounges food from a dumpster and tries to figure out how to spend all the free time he has, among other things.
On Tour with the Captain · 2 pages
Lindsay and two actors from his theatrical troupe do a radio interview in a small Australian town called Narrabri.
Stranger in a Strange Land · 3 pages
Elvis is dug out of his grave and put in front of an audience but his music career continues the trajectory it had just before he died.
The Bobfellows! · 2 pages
Bernie's new Bob Dylan bootleg has arrived in the mail and he wants to share it with Byron in this sendup of Dylan fanatics.
Rock & Roll Aliens · 4 pages

Characters

Fat Freddy FreekowtskiFat Freddy's CatElvis PresleyMary FleenerStickboy

Reprinted in

Twice-Told Tales of Unsupervised Existence (1989), Slutburger Stories (1990), Slutburger (1991), Beer Nutz (1991), Life of the Party: The Complete Autobiographical Collection (1996), UG!3K & Expozo (1999)