True Tales, nos. 2-4

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Edité par No Joke Publications, Austin, 1989

Three issues of this small format zine, in which the anonymous author uses hand-drawn comics to document his flashbacks of incestual rape at the hands of his father. In his preface to no. 3 he confides: "I ve been dealing with some really freaky resurfacing memories of brutal early childhood sexual abuse. If this topic freaks you, I m sorry. Don t read this." And later, "I m almost thirty, haven t had a date in two years, and would either kill you or go catatonic if you, say, tapped me on the shoulder." In no. 4 he substitutes twisted lyrics to the tune of "Hush Little Baby" to recount his father s predatory behavior: "Be a big boy / Please don t cry / So Daddy won t have to / Make you die / Don t tell the doctor / Don t tell the teacher / Or they ll find out / You re a horrible creature / So be real quiet / And lie real still / Or I ll kill your Mommy / You know I will / If you tell / What we have done / Daddy will shoot you / With his gun…" A disturbing series, of which we could find nine issues published. The author appears to have continued the topic in "Chimpanzee Waltz: Raised By Wolves." Stapled wrappers (5 ¼" x 4 ¼"), 12; 8, [4]; [8] p., illus. No. 2 has a faint red stain to the rear wrapper, else all fine. We were unable to locate a record for this zine in OCLC, although we find issue 1 in the Joan Flasch Artists Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and issue 7 in the Dennis Cooper Paper at NYU. All issues scarce. N° de réf. du vendeur 07970

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : True Tales, nos. 2-4
Éditeur : No Joke Publications, Austin
Date d'édition : 1989