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Weirdo #20 (1993 Last Gasp, Second Printing)Cover by Robert Crumb. "How My Family Encouraged Me to Become an Artist!", script and art by Dori Seda. Harvey Sez column; Harvey Pekar bemoans the lack of artistically ambitious comic books. "Moo Goo Gai Pan," script and art by Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Aline's family love to eat, but hate to cook. "Footsy," script and art by Robert Crumb; How Crumb played footsie with girls in his class. "The Cockeyed Cook Story," script and art by Mark Zingarelli; William Cook's life of crime. "Un-covered Property: A Short Study in Family Dynamics," script and art by Carol Tyler; The pre-pubescent Carol doesn't understand why she can't go topless. "TV Evangelist," script and art by Michael Dougan; Dougan's grandmother is fleeced of her possessions by an unscrupulous preacher. "I Had a Dream Last Nite," script and art by Aline Kominsky-Crumb. 44 pgs., B&W. 8-in. x 11-in. Cover price $2.50.
from Wikipedia:
"Twisted Sisters" eraWith issue #18 (Fall 1986), the editorial reins of Weirdo went to Kominsky-Crumb;[17] the "Twisted Sisters" monicker being a reference to an all-female comics anthology that Kominsky-Crumb co-produced with Diane Noomin in 1976. Bagge returned for a single issue as editor, with Weirdo #25, Summer 1989. New contributors to the magazine during this era included Lloyd Dangle, Julie Doucet, Dennis Eichhorn, Justin Green, Krystine Kryttre, Carol Tyler (her first published comics), Penny Van Horn, Michael Dougan, and Mark Zingarelli. Harvey Pekar began a regular column, "Harvey Sez", in issue #19; his column ran in most of the later issues.
Many stories published in Weirdo from the "Twisted Sisters" era were later collected in the 1991 anthology Twisted Sisters: A Collection of Bad Girl Art — including work by Kominsky-Crumb, Carol Lay, Phoebe Gloeckner, Carel Moiseiwitsch, Van Horn, Kryttre, Doucet, Sternbergh, Seda, and Tyler.[18]
In 1991, after the publication of Weirdo #27, Crumb and Kominsky-Crumb moved their family from Northern California to France.[19]
Weirdo was at the center of a legal case in 1986: the manager of a comics retailer in the Chicago area, Friendly Frank's, was arrested on charges of distributing obscenity.[20][21] The comic books deemed obscene were Weirdo, Omaha the Cat Dancer, The Bodyssey, and Bizarre Sex. The case led to the formation of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.[22]
