CATALOG RECORD

Bijou Funnies #8

Kitchen Sink Press · Series began 1972 · 1973

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Dates

Cover date: 1973
Pages: 36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #8 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Original edition
Source ↗
2nd printing

Second Printing

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

Creators

pencils: Harvey Kurtzman, Jay Lynch, William Stout, Skip Williamson, Denis Kitchen, Pat Daley, Robert Crumb, Bill Griffith, Kim Deitch, Justin Green, Willy Murphy, Jay Kinney, Ralph Reeseinks: Harvey Kurtzman, Jay Lynch, William Stout, Skip Williamson, Denis Kitchen, Pat Daley, Robert Crumb, Bill Griffith, Kim Deitch, Justin Green, Willy Murphy, Jay Kinney, Ralph Reeseletters: Harvey Kurtzman, Jay Lynch, William Stout, Skip Williamson, Denis Kitchen, Pat Daley, Robert Crumb, Bill Griffith, Kim Deitch, Justin Green, Willy Murphy, Jay Kinney, Ralph Reesescript: Jay Lynch, William Stout, Skip Williamson, Denis Kitchen, Pat Daley, Robert Crumb, Bill Griffith, Kim Deitch, Justin Green, Willy Murphy, Jay Kinney

Stories

Um Tut Smuth? · 1 pages
An editorial saying no more issues of Bijou will appear if a Supreme Court ruling permitting local communities to define standards of obscenity is not repealed. The ruling has impacted on several comic creators since 1973.
Geek Brothers! · 2.9 pages
Some of the Geek Brothers move onwards and upwards.
Chicken Fat Freddy's Pet · 0.1 pages
Snazzy Melvin Snoot · 3 pages
Melvin is mugged and his life goes downhill from there.
Melvin Natural · 3 pages
When is Funky Feet going to wise up and stop being dumped on by Melvin Natural?
Hungry Irving Biscuits · 3 pages
Hungry Irving is sick of his image and demands a makeover.
Melvin Wizard! · 3 pages
What's really under the wizard's hat?
Pard 'N' Nat · Pard 'N' Nat · 4 pages
Pard and Nat fall out.
Inside Dopes · 3 pages
The improbability of Kim Deitch's plots is satirised.
Bufo Boffo · 3 pages
Toady is kidnapped and forced to create art.
Checkered Cherub · 3 pages
The Checkered Cherub searches out those who deserve a good, swift death.
A Case Of Outlined Lettering · The Wiper · 3 pages
The Viper would be more effective if only he could control his cleaning compulsion.
Mashman Meets Spleen Queen · 2 pages
It's almost a date for Mashman and Spleen Queen.
Untitled · 1 pages
A parody of the famous EC ad naming the assorted Mad imitations, using numerous titles of other underground comics in the text, and incorporating nine logos.

Reprinted in

Fifty Freakin' Years with the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers (2017), The Complete Crumb Comics (1987), The Scum Also Rises: An Anthology of Comic Art (1988)