RAW (magazine)

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RAW was a comic magazine in the field of underground , independent and alternative comics and was published in anthology from 1980 to 1991 by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly . One of the best known works from RAW was Spiegelman's 1992 Pulitzer Prize- winning graphic novel Maus .

history

After a trip to Europe, Art Spiegelman and his wife Françoise Mouly came up with the idea of ​​a comic magazine, in which works apart from the superhero comics that dominate the market were to be published. In contrast to many fanzines, RAW tried to present the works as part of a global comic culture that clearly stands out from other media with a new visual language.

The magazine with the subtitle The Graphix Magazine was supposed to stand out visually from the usual comic publications and appeared in an oversize format on glossy paper, which is usual for lifestyle magazines. The creative design of the magazine was just as important as the content. Some editions contained trading cards , flexidiscs, or other extras, others had torn corners and distorted titles. The chapters were published by Maus in small-format supplements . The first eight editions of RAW were self-published by Spiegelman and Mouly. The first edition was published in July 1980 with 5000 copies, the eighth and last had a circulation of 20,000 copies in 1988, of which about 20 percent were sold in Europe. From 1989 three new editions were published as Volume 2 by Penguin Books in pocket book format, each with over 200 pages.

The magazine was not reissued, but parts of the RAW material already published were later found in other printed collections. Read Yourself RAW (Pantheon Books, 1987) was an abridged reprint of the first three issues.

Some of the better known contributors and (reprinted) authors of RAW were:

RAW One Shots and other RAW publications (selection)

  • Mark Beyer: Agony, A RAW Book, RAW / Pantheon, New York, 1987. ( ISBN 9780394754420 )
  • Charles Burns: Big Baby. Curse of the Moleman, RAW One Shot, No. 5, RAW Books and Graphics, New York, 1988. ( ISBN 9780915043033 )
  • Charles Burn: Hard-Boiled Defective Stories, A RAW Book, RAW / Pantheon, New York, 1988. ( ISBN 9780394754413 )
  • Sue Coe (graphic) and Holly Metz (Text): How to Commit Suicide in SouthAfrica, RAW One Shot, No. 2, RAW Books and Graphics, New York, 1983 ( ISBN 9780394620244 )
  • Sue Coe: X, RAW One Shot, No. 6, RAW Books and Graphics, New York, 1986. ( ISBN 9780915043064 )
  • Ben Katchor : Cheap Novelties. The Pleasures of Urban Decay, A RAW One Shot, Penguin Books, 1991. ( ISBN 9780140159974 )
  • Richard McGuire: Here [36 panels, 8 pages], in: RAW, Vol. 2, No. 1, Penguin Books, 1989. ( ISBN 9780140122657 )
  • Jack Moriarty: Jack Survives, RAW One Shot, No. 3, RAW Books and Graphics, New York, 1984. ( ISBN 9780915043002 )
  • Gary Panter: Jimbo, RAW One Shot, No. 1, RAW Books and Graphics, New York, 1982. ( ISBN 1560975725 )
  • Gary Panter: Invasion of the Elvis Zombies, RAW One Shot, No. 4, RAW Books and Graphics, New York, 1984. ( ISBN 0915043017 )
  • Gary Panter: Jimbo. Adventures in Paradise, A RAW / Pantheon Book, RAW / Pantheon, New York, 1988. ( ISBN 9780394756394 )
  • Art Spiegelman: Maus, A Survivor's Tale, Vol. 1: My Father Bleeds History, Pantheon Books, New York, 1986 (the first six Maus chapters, originally in: RAW, from Vol. 1, No. 2: Chapter 1, The Sheik, up to Vol. 1, No. 7, Chapter 6, Mauschwitz, New York, 1980–1985). ( ISBN 9780808598534 )
  • Art Spiegelman: Maus, Vol. 2: And Here My Troubles Began, Pantheon Books, New York, 1991. ( ISBN 0394556550 )
  • Yoshiharu Tsuge: Red Flowers, in: RAW, Vol. 1, No. 7 (bound booklet, 12 pages), RAW Books and Graphics, New York, 1985.

Françoise Mouly's publications before RAW (selection)

Streets of Soho; map and guide,

  • from 1978, the first edition as A Crass Publication, New York, 1977. The following editions were produced by RAW Books and Graphics (until 1990).

The mailbooks

  • Mark Beyer: Manhattan, December, 1978.
  • Pascal Doury: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7, 1979.
  • Heinz Emigholz: The Basis of Make-Up, February, 1979.
  • Heinz Emigholz: The Chinese Landscape, October, 1979.
  • French Postcard, (classic erotic photography), Feb., 1979.
  • Françoise Mouly: Caran d'Arche, October, 1978.
  • Bruno Richard: French Postcard, No. 2, 1979.
  • Art Spiegelman: Every Day Has Its Dogs, March, 1979.

Others:

  • Bill Griffith: Zippy-Scope, April, 1979.
  • Art Spiegelman: Work and Turn, RAW BOOKS, New York, March, 1979.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas C. Knigge: Everything about comics . Europa-Verlag 2004, p. 378.
  2. ↑ Andreas C. Knigge: Everything about comics . Europa-Verlag 2004, p. 379.
  3. ^ Name of an artist collective.
  4. ↑ pseudonym for Peter van Heirseele.

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