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Penny Dreadful Commission was a student organization that wanted to "demonstrate the range and expressive power of comic art by presenting a varied collection of work." All comics were student-submitted, and the publication was entirely student-run. Issue No. 5 from May 1, 1989 has a front cover by Joe Fullerton, a back cover featuring the comic "Clawed McClawed in Big Trouble on Black Bison Ridge" by Mike Johnson, a letter from the editor by Jason Lutes, and the comics "Finnegan's Wake" by Joe Fullerton, "zhi-vot" by Vezna Gottwald, "Heroine" by Jeffrey Fohl, "Head Injury" by Jim Tozzi, "The Transaction" by Jason Mitchell and X, "The Man in Black" by Mike Johnson, "Turkish March" by Joe Fullerton, "The Ratstones" by Sly Sterling and Plato, "The Umpire Who Didn't Give a Shit" by Jake Austen, "Purple Haze" by Adam Gould, "Tabloid Tales and Newspaper Romance" by Brian McCarthy, "Ratstones Kids" by Willis, "Deadline" by Noah Hall, "Shark Attack" by David TenEyck, and "Remembering Houding" by Jake Austen.
Identifier
PDC-0589-01.pdf
Publication Date
5-1-1989
Document Type
Newspaper
City
Providence, Rhode Island
Keywords
RISD, art school, art college, student publications, Comics, Student Creative Work
Disciplines
Aesthetics | Architecture | Art and Design | Art Education | Creative Writing | History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology | Music | Theatre and Performance Studies
Recommended Citation
Students of RISD and Archives, RISD, "Penny Dreadful Commission Comics No. 5" (1989). All Student Newspapers. 137.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/studentnewspapers/137
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