Bob Callahan edited this comprehensive gathering of over six dozen alternative and underground cartoonists ranging from 1974-1991.
Mariscal
Everything is covered from RAW (Gary Panter, Mariscal, Pascal Doury, Joost Swarte, Kaz);
WEIRDO (Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Peter Bagge, Drew Friedman, Michael Roden, Mark Zingarelli, Justin Green, Carol Lay, Dori Seda, Diane Noomin, Dennis Eichhorn/Michael Dougan);
Fantagraphics (Daniel Clowes, J.R. Williams, R. Sikoryak, Mack White, Joe Sacco, Colin Upton, Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Carol Tyler, Jay Pulga); DRAWN & QUARTERLY (Joe Matt, Julie Doucet, Richard Sala); underground publishers (Harvey Pekar, Robert Crumb, Lee Marrs, Spain Rodriguez, Cliff Harper, Paul Mavrides, Mary Fleener, Kristine Kryttre, Rory Hayes, S. Clay Wilson, Art Spiegelman, Kim Deitch, Bill Griffith, Jim Woodring, Howard Cruse, Robert Williams, Dan O'Neill); alternative weekly papers (Matt Groening. Lynda Barry, Ben Katchor, Lloyd Dangle); UK and European artists (Ed Pinsent, Mokeit, Hunt Emerson, Francis Masse, Joe Schwind, Paquito Bolino, Y5/P5, Suehiro Maruo (Japan), Bruno Richard, Lorenzo Mattotti, Jacques Loustal, Gary and Warren Pleece, Willem, Carlos Sampayo/Jose Munoz, Marti, Marc Caro, Jacques Tardi, Eddie Campbell, Joost Swarte);
and, everybody else (Chris Ware, Charles Burns, Rick Geary, Mark Beyer, Bruce Hilvitz, Roy Tompkins, Jim Shaw, Peter Kuper, Jonathan Rosen, David Sandlin, Will Eisner, Mario Hernandez, Carel Moiseiwitsch).
(Reference: comics.org) This is a solid overview of the alternative scene at the time, Callahan put together a good mix of styles and old and new cartoonists. The reproduction isn't perfect throughout, but it's hard to complain when you are getting stuff you wouldn't otherwise see outside of Colin Blanchette's collection.😉
Speaking of Colin Blanchette, he did a video on his Loading the Canon channel on Bob Callahan's other anthology THE NEW SMITHSONIAN BOOK OF COMIC-BOOK STORIES. Check it out here.
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