Weirdo No. 12

The twelfth edition of Robert Crumb's notorious underground comics anthology Weirdo is the "Special Loser Issue", with stories by and about Rory Hayes and Ken Weiner. Crumb contributes an 8-page Mode O'day story. Editor Pete Bagge gives us the classic "Sour Grapes" - The Wacky World of Ken Weiner and Peter Bagge. Zippy creator Bill 'Griffy' Griffith tells the chilling and surreal "Rory Story" in comics and also writes "Rory Hayes, an Appreciation". Rory Hayes' 9-page opus "The Keeper of the Mind" closes out the issue. Other features JR Williams' Skinboy; Letters from Robert Williams, Ivan Stang, Robert Armstrong and Ace Backwards; short strips by Ken Struck (Tootles), Brad Johnson, Triangle Slash, Bob X, JD King and Dennis Worden; an intense center-spread by Chet XNO; and, the classic strip by Drew and Josh Allen Friedman "Strange Bedfellows". Shazam! Color Covers, black and white interior. Cover art by Robert Crumb (Front) and Jim Woodring (Back)