Blab!

    (Kitchen Sink, 1986-2007)
™ and © Kitchen Sink Press, Inc.

Blab! is a 120–page eclectic collection of comics, illustrations, and pop graphics with a decidedly multi-cultural flavor. Contributors range from underground comix granddaddy Spain Rodriguez to erotic French illustrator Walter Minus, with a host of American and international artists kicking in multi–page strips and single illustrations and paintings. The best of the sequential art includes C.P. Freund and Peter and Maria Hoey’s multi–part faux–Tintin “Shadow of the Mirage,” the latest installment in Mark Landman’s Fetal Elvis series, “Fetal Elvis Gets Drafted!” and Spain’s autobiographical, “The Education of an Underground Cartoonist.” Blab! provides a needed outlet for work that doesn’t fit neatly into any category, such as Bob Staake’s funky take on the songs of Steely Dan and Sue Coe and Judith Bordy’s cautionary screed “Fowl Plague.” Editor Monte Beauchamp contributes an amusing history of the World War II “Kilroy Was Here” phenomenon, and other features range from the disturbing Crumb meets Bosch of Blanquet to the lush pulpish “Cornered” by Owen Smith. Some of the more outlandish pieces might not be for everyone, but, on the whole, Blab! goes down pretty smoothly.

— Timothy J. Wood
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  • 1
    #1
    B&W; Digest-sized
    Jul 1986
    Cover: $6.95
    W: Monte Beauchamp
    Digest-sized; Limited to 1,500; B&W
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    #1 - 2nd printing
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    Reprint
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    #2
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    #3
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    #4
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    #5
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    #6
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    #7
    Feb 1996
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    #8
    Jun 1995
    Cover: $16.95
    Odd-sized anthology; Summer 1995
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    #9
    Sep 1997
    Cover: $18.95
    Fall 1997; Odd-sized anthology
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    #10
    Sep 1998
    Cover: $19.95
    Fall 1998; Odd-sized anthology
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    #11
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    #12
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    #13
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  • 14
    #14
    Feb 2004
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  • 15
    #15
    Cover: $19.95
    W: Camille Rose Garcia, Matti Hagelberg, Bob Staake, Nicholas Debon, Peter Kuper, Marc Rosenthal, Monte Beauchamp, Christian Northeast, Walter Minus, Gary Baseman, Gary, David Sandlin, Don Colley, Owen Smith, Tom Huck, Tim Biskup, David Golding, Stéphane Blanquet, Fred Stonehouse, The Clayton Brothers, Doug Fraser, Gary Taxali, Laura Levine, C.P. Freund, Judith Brody, Mark Landman, Vinnie, Jeffrey Steele, Greg Clarke, Helge Reumann, Robel, Spain Rodriguez, Geoffrey Grahn, Drew Friedman  ·  A: Camille Rose Garcia, Matti Hagelberg, Bob Staake, Nicholas Debon, Peter Kuper, Marc Rosenthal, Monte Beauchamp, Christian Northeast, Walter Minus, Gary Baseman, Gary, David Sandlin, Don Colley, Owen Smith, Tom Huck, Tim Biskup, David Golding, Stéphane Blanquet, Fred Stonehouse, The Clayton Brothers, Doug Fraser, Gary Taxali, Laura Levine, Peter Hoey, Maria Hoey, Sue Coe, Mark Landman, Vinnie, Jeffrey Steele, Greg Clarke, Helge Reumann, Robel, Spain Rodriguez, Geoffrey Grahn, Drew Friedman
    Fall 2004; Odd-sized anthology
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  • 16
    #16
    Oct 2005
    Cover: $19.95
    W: Andrea Dezso, Geoffrey Grahn, Paco Alcazar, David Sandlin, Sergio Ruzzier, Hoey, Spain Rodriguez, Mats, Christian Northeast, Esther Pearl Watson, Greg Clarke, Bob Staake, Mark Todd, Henrik Drescher, Peter Kuper, Walter Minus, David Burd, Gary Taxali, Owen Smith, Brian Cronin, J. Bradley Johnson, Fred Stonehouse, Lou Brooks, Laura Levine, Gary Baseman, Marc Rosenthal, Mark Landman, Sue Coe, Drew Friedman, The Clayton Brothers  ·  A: Andrea Dezso, Geoffrey Grahn, Paco Alcazar, David Sandlin, Sergio Ruzzier, Hoey, Spain Rodriguez, Mats, Christian Northeast, Esther Pearl Watson, Greg Clarke, Bob Staake, Mark Todd, Henrik Drescher, Peter Kuper, Walter Minus, David Burd, Gary Taxali, Owen Smith, Brian Cronin, J. Bradley Johnson, Fred Stonehouse, Lou Brooks, Laura Levine, Gary Baseman, Marc Rosenthal, Mark Landman, Sue Coe, Drew Friedman, The Clayton Brothers
    Fall 2005
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  • 17
    #17
    Sep 2006
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    W: Sergio Ruzzier, Matti Hagelberg, Geoffrey Grahn, Steve Guarnaccia, Peter Hoey, Maria Hoey, Greg Clarke, Sue Coe, Judith Brody, Walter Minus, Esther Pearl Watson, Mark Todd, Lou Brooks, Monte Beauchamp, Marc Rosenthal, Brian Cronin, Peter Kuper, Mark Landman, Gary Taxali, Spain Rodriguez, Paco Alcazar  ·  A: Christian Northeast, Sergio Ruzzier, Matti Hagelberg, Geoffrey Grahn, Steve Guarnaccia, Peter Hoey, Maria Hoey, Greg Clarke, Sue Coe, Judith Brody, Walter Minus, John Pound, Lou Brooks, Amy Crehore, Calef Brown, Fred Stonehouse, Ryan Heshka, Esther Pearl Watson, Gary Baseman, Mark Todd, Shag, Monte Beauchamp, Marc Rosenthal, Brian Cronin, Peter Kuper, Mark Landman, Gary Taxali, Spain Rodriguez, Paco Alcazar, Drew Friedman
    Fall 2006
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