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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#2

Cover Price: $6.95
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#4

Cover Price: $7.95
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#14

February, 2004
Cover Price: $19.95
1 copy available for $24.00