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Issue: Colin Upton's Big Black Thing #1

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Publication Date: January 1994

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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue

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Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

Starhead Comix

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On Sale Date: (not set)

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Pages: 28

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Price: $2.50 USD

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Content Items: 13 (10 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Roberta Gregory; Colin Upton

Notes: Compilation of the self-published work of Colin Upton selected by Editor Roberta Gregory.

Colin Upton discovered the small press comics movement during the 1980s, an anarchic sub-culture of cartoonists who happily rejected the need for publishers or editors to create and distribute their comics themselves. Much of this issue was produced as a small mini-comics (small, cheap photocopied 8 - 12 page pamphlets) and sent through the mail as a major method of distribution for trade or sale.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Black and White

Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.

Paper Stock: Newsprint

Binding: Saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: One-Shot

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6 Content Items

reprinted 6 times from some/all in other Issues.

1 Content Item
- Self-Indulgent Comics #10 [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.

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Content Items (13 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

The Big Black Thing of Doom!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Colin Upton; Dennis Eichhorn

Penciller(s): Colin Upton

Inker(s): Colin Upton

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Colin Upton

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Character(s): Colin Upton; Dennis Eichhorn

Synopsis: Satire on Upton's self-published endeavor.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Famous Bus Rides #2

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Colin Upton

Penciller(s): Colin Upton

Inker(s): Colin Upton

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Colin Upton

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Synopsis: Homophobic grannies and an old man raging against the filthy, longhaired, scummy young people.

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From Issue: Flag

Famous Bus Rides #2 published ?

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Real Rubbie #6

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Colin Upton

Penciller(s): Colin Upton

Inker(s): Colin Upton

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Colin Upton

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Synopsis: A panhandler tries to bum money so he can get back to prison for the weekend.

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From Issue: Flag

Real Rubbie #6 published ?

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Pages: 2

Self-Indulgent Comics #10

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Colin Upton

Penciller(s): Colin Upton

Inker(s): Colin Upton

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Colin Upton

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Synopsis: Mysterious appearance of foreign coins in the apartment of Colin Upton and possible explanations.

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From Content Item: Flag

Self-Indulgent Comics #10 published January 1988
was The horror all started one sunny day during spring cleaning... [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 2

Hotxha the Albanian Part one and two

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Colin Upton

Penciller(s): Colin Upton

Inker(s): Colin Upton

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Colin Upton

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, military

Feature(s): Hotxha

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From Issue: Flag

Hotxha the Albanian #[nn] published January 1990

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Pages: 8

The Happy Hater #3

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Colin Upton

Penciller(s): Colin Upton

Inker(s): Colin Upton

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Colin Upton

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Synopsis: Happy appears on a late night talk show, confusion and chaos ensues.

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From Issue: Flag

The Happy Hater #3 published ?

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Pages: 2

Self-Indulgent Comics #3

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Colin Upton

Penciller(s): Colin Upton

Inker(s): Colin Upton

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Colin Upton

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, military

Synopsis: The horrible dark secrets of the doomed Eccleheart clan revealed.

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From Issue: Flag

Self-Indulgent Comics #3 published ?

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Pages: 2

Happy Ned and his Rabbit Spot

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Colin Upton

Penciller(s): Colin Upton

Inker(s): Colin Upton

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Colin Upton

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Synopsis: Happy Ned cheerfully spreads the good word with a good deed and a smile. Or automatic weapons fire if that doesn't work. This dark humoured satire foreshadowed the violence of the religious right years before it was fashionable.

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Reprint Notes: from Happy Ned (Colin Upton, 1985 series) #?

Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Tales of the Terrible Teatotaler #1

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Colin Upton

Penciller(s): Colin Upton

Inker(s): Colin Upton

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Colin Upton

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Synopsis: Nauseating true tale of competitive vomiting amongst the denizens of the Terrible House of Sickness, an East Vancouver home famous for it's substance abuse.

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From Issue: Flag

Tales of the Terrible Teatotaler #1 published January 1987

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Pages: 2

Socialist Turtle

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Colin Upton

Penciller(s): Colin Upton

Inker(s): Colin Upton

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Colin Upton

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

Synopsis: In this funny animal political satire, Socialist Turtle is a Stalinist with a thin shell, battling for control of a featureless plain against capitalists, Trotsykites and class traitors. Inspired by infighting amongst various communist factions in the eighties, in particular the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada.

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Reprint Notes: from Collected Socialist Turtle, The (Colin Upton, 1985 series) #?

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Colin Upton Comics Big Things

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Colin Upton

Penciller(s): Colin Upton

Inker(s): Colin Upton

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Colin Upton

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Pages: 1

Notes: Advertisement promoting back issues of Upton's self-published work. Upton purchased much of the back stock of Big Thing and is now offering this back stock for sale.

[untitled]

Illustration on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Colin Upton

Penciller(s): Colin Upton

Inker(s): Colin Upton

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Colin Upton

Subject Matter

Synopsis: `

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Pages: 1

Notes: Back cover is black with a small white circle in the middle of the page containing a cat by the name of Sam Hitler with the facial features of Adolph Hitler. With his right paw in the air, the cat is saying: Dis Comix is Gut.