CATALOG RECORD

Weirdo #26

Last Gasp · Series began 1981 · Fall 1989

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Dates

Cover date: Fall 1989
On sale: 1989
Pages: 52

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #26 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

First printing
Source ↗
2nd printing

Second Printing

Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
This edition’s page

Creators

script: Robert Crumb, Mary Fleener, Leslie Sternbergh, Harvey Pekar, Terry Boyce, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Lloyd Dangle, Penny Van Horn, Phoebe Gloeckner, Spain Rodriguez, Roy Tompkins, Stanley Goldstein, Ted Jouflas, Julie Doucet, Krystine Kryttre, Diane Noominpencils: Robert Crumb, Mary Fleener, Leslie Sternbergh, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Terry Boyce, Lloyd Dangle, Penny Van Horn, Phoebe Gloeckner, Spain Rodriguez, Roy Tompkins, Stanley Goldstein, Ted Jouflas, Julie Doucet, Krystine Kryttre, Diane Noomininks: Robert Crumb, Mary Fleener, Leslie Sternbergh, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Terry Boyce, Lloyd Dangle, Penny Van Horn, Phoebe Gloeckner, Spain Rodriguez, Roy Tompkins, Stanley Goldstein, Ted Jouflas, Julie Doucet, Krystine Kryttre, Diane Noomincolors: Robert Crumb, Diane Noominletters: Robert Crumb, Mary Fleener, Leslie Sternbergh, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Terry Boyce, Lloyd Dangle, Penny Van Horn, Phoebe Gloeckner, Spain Rodriguez, Roy Tompkins, Stanley Goldstein, Ted Jouflas, Julie Doucet, Krystine Kryttre, Diane Noomin

Stories

A Mother and Daughter Chat · 1 pages
Mrs. Fleener doesn't understand what a clitoris is in a phone conversation with her daughter.
Dinner at Ben's · 1 pages
Leslie is hit on while at Ben's Pizza in New York.
Harvey Sez · Harvey Sez · 0.51 pages
Harvey praises the new comics journalism, including the likes of Joe Sacco, Bill Tulp and Tom Keough.
How I Got Published In a Big Glossy Magazine · 2 pages
An extreme method of ensuring publication in a major magazine.
People... Ya Gotta Love 'Em! · 3 pages
The struggle through the great mass of humanity as Crumb is stuck and he's trying to get out.
A Bird in the Beard - A True Story · 4 pages
What happened one evening as DJ Don, who has a crush on Barb, unexpectedly showed up at her house.
Quaker School Q-Ties in Plan Against The Boys · 5 pages
A group of schoolgirls discover one of their number has reached puberty.
Untitled · 8 pages
Big Bitch acquires a formula enabling the total recall of dreams.
A Scam a Day: Growing Up as Arnie's Girl · 5 pages
Arnie's dysfunctional parenting and its effect on The Bunch.
Where Am I? · 5 pages
A man plagued by a violent hallucination as he deals with a mind numbing factory job and his attraction to a co-worker.
The Gal for Stan · 2 pages
Stan sets his heights high when detailing a prospective girlfriend.
Momster · 7 pages
A family beset by monsters as Evie ships off her offspring to camp.
Heavy Flow · 4 pages
Out of tampons, giant-sized Julie goes on the rampage.
Dolores Park · 1 pages
A pigeon with a surprise in San Francisco's Dolores Park.

Characters

Robert CrumbAline Kominsky-CrumbMary FleenerJulie DoucetThe BunchSophie CrumbBig Bitch

Reprinted in

Twisted Sisters: A Collection of Bad Girl Art (1991), The Complete Crumb Comics (1987), Slutburger Stories (1990), R. Crumb Comics (1990), Death Warmed Over (1990), Dangle (1991), Slutburger (1991), The New Comics Anthology (1991), R. Crumb Comics (1992), Leve Ta Jambe Mon Poisson Est Mort! [Lift Your Leg My Fish Is Dead!] (1993), She Comics: An Anthology of Big Bitch (1993), Dangle (1993), Life of the Party: The Complete Autobiographical Collection (1996), Recipe for Disaster and Other Stories (1998), A Child's Life and Other Stories (1998), A Child's Life and Other Stories [Revised Edition] (2000), Need More Love A Graphic Memoir (2007), R. Crumb The Weirdo Years: 1981-'93 (2013), Love That Bunch (2018), R. Crumb: Existential Comics, Selected Stories 1979-2014 (2025)