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Issue: Blab! #15
Publication Date: January 2004
 
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
On Sale Date: 11/10/2004
Volume: none
Pages: 124
ISBN: 1560976136
UPC/EAN: 978156097613451995
Price: $19.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 39 (13 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color with some Black & White
Dimensions: 10" x 10" (25.4 cm x 25.4 cm)
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Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Blab 15

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This Book Belongs To

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Contents

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Subterranean Orphans

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His Shoes Say Ukk

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Urho Kekkonen; Priest; Jesus Christ
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They Got the Steely Dan T-Shirts

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Eight illustrations inspired by Steely Dan lyrics. The titles are "They got the shapely bodies. They got the Steely Dan t-shirts;" "I'm still working on that novel but I'm just about to quit;" "You be the showgirl and I'll be Sinatra way back in '59;" "Our man Abu squeezes off 20 tracer rounds;" "She turned my life into a living hell in those little tops and tight capris;" "I'll learn to play the saxophone. I'll play just what I feel;" "She thinks I'm crazy but I'm just growing old;" "Drive West on Sunset to the sea, turn that jungle music down, just until we're out of town"
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The Holy Saints of the Desert

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St. Eusebius; Hesychasts; Bessarion; Father Arsenius; Hypetres; St. Simeon
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Dream Machine

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Convergence

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Kilroy Was Here!

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A brief single-page article pondering the origins of the WWII-era pop culture catchphrase "Kilroy Was Here." Includes ten photo images of the Kilroy character.
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Mr. McGillicutty in What's That Stink?

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Mr. McGillicutty; Jazz Musician
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Astrida

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Astrida
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Garden of Unearthly Delights

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I Dream of Joni

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Joni Dreams of Jake

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My Burdened Heart

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Cornered

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Race of the Wheelbarrow Brides

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Tim Biskup's Tiny Bubbles

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Yoo-Hoo

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Gargarism of Paradise

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Dream of the Great Lake

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Home, Take Them Out

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A Pugilist's Alchemy or Pulp

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Lunchbox

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Miracle Mike the Headless Chicken

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Lloyd A. Olsen; Hope B. Wade
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Hope Yer Holy Daze Are a Blast

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Major Sands in Shadow of the Mirage

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Major Sands; Abeed; She
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Fowl Plague

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Fetal Elvis Gets Drafted!

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Fetal Elvis; Colonel Placenta; Sid; Uncle Ahnold; Host Mother; Jesse
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Comix Are For Losers!

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Houdini
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The Unkindest Cut

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The Blithe Spirit of Tinseltown

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Fred
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Four Horsemen

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The Education of an Underground Cartoonist

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autobiography, biography
Fred Toote'
Spain Rodriguez; Spain's Mom; Fred Toote'; Shrink; Ron Walazuski; Walter Bowart
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FlagCruisin' with the Hound: The Life and Times of Fred Toote' #[nn] published April 2012
 
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Dime a Dance Girl

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Wonderful Land

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Thank You! Come Again

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Blab 15

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