50. ZOMOID ILLUSTORIES (3-D ZONE, 1989)
I recently saw this on a Comic Book Manifesto haul video, and thought it funny we both bought such an obscure comic from the same online retailer.
This reprints eight full issues of ZOMOID ILLUSTORIES, one excerpt, and (I believe) a new cover by Carol Lay. Also a historical essay by Ray Zone and Dale Luciano's interview with him from THE COMICS JOURNAL.
According to Ray Zone these were xeroxed four-pagers made by folding an 8 1/2 × 11 sheet of paper in half and letting the artist (sometimes anonymously) do whatever they wanted with the space.
The best of the selection here (imho) is the Gary Panter id explosion over four pages. I love Panter's comics and this is prime 80s work from him, some dense automatic abstract narrative.
It's great to get a chance to see some of the early alternative mini-comics that are direct antecedents of what we see at Domino Books today.
Yep, that's a good one and probably the first time most of its readers ever heard of the series, kind of a wild thing to be introduced to. Fun times.
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