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This is the "Official Australian
Edition".
Jay Lynch says, "The Australian edition of Bijou was a legit item
too. Pat Wooley published it. She had a company called Wild and
Wolley...I think she's still running that company today. She
published Ron Cobb's stuff in Australia back then.
As I recall...all newsstand books had to go thru a government censor
at that time in Australia. If they found offensive material, they
would tear out that page. So we hadda distribute Bijou in milk bars
(in Australia, hippies hung out in the Australian equivolent of soda
fountains called Milk Bars) and the comic was sold as a premium with
milk. You would buy a little bottle of milk, and give the milkbar
proprietor 50 cents and the milk bottle cap, and you could by an
uncensored Bijou. It was all very odd...but that was the way it was.
Why did hippies in australia hang out in milk bars? It had something
to do with the idea that the rolling papers were sold primarily in
milk bars at the time. Very unusual method of distribution....but
had we gone the government censor route, that Australian ish of
Bijou would only have been two or three pages thick once it got to
the regular newsstands."
See also:
Bijou Funnies Series |
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| Artists: |
Skip Williamson - 1, 3-5, 12, 13, 19, 28
Al Lieberman - 2(ph)
Jay Lynch - 6-8, 10-11, 21-22
Robert Crumb - 9, 16-18, 23
Gilbert Shelton - 14-15, 20
Jay Kinney - 24-26
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| Stories: |
2 - Photo of Skip Williamson,
Robert Crumb, Jayzey Lynch, & Jay Kinney
3 - Snappy Sammy Smoot
6 - Nard n' Pat
9 - Joey Tissue and the Dummies
9 - Mr. Spiff
10 - So You Want To Be A Cartoonist
12 - Skip Williamson's Psychedelic Comix
13 - Gus Goosegrease
14 - Set My Chickens Free
16 - Neato Keeno Time
18 - The Big Little Boy
18 - Bo Bo Bolinski, He's A Clown
19 - Wee Wee Comix
20 - Those Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
21 - Nard n' Pat
22 - Fontaine Fox
23 - Angelfood McSpade and Mr. Natural Puppets
24 - New Left Comics
27 - Tomato Press (Ad)
28 - Snappy Sammy's Handy Hints No. 1 |
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