[Groop] Tabloid Cartooning: The Search for Back Issues

Chris Schechner chschechner at ev1.net
Fri Jul 22 07:15:26 PDT 2005


Those folks with the tin foil on their heads were the bane of us emigrating
from Zoltron!

on 7/21/05 11:40 PM, GARY GROSSMANN at grossfamm at comcast.net wrote:

> Hi Folks!
> 
> So far finding the back issues of the Weekly World News from May 2 through
> July 11th has proved an unexpectedly difficult task.  (!?!)
> 
> First I called the WWN customer service line and after several transfers was
> told that they did not have any back issues for those weeks!!
> 
> So I figured I'll start from the other end.  So I go to my Grocery Store and
> get the name of the distributor and call them up. They tell me their
> contract with the publisher required them to shred all the copies returned.
> Horrors!!!
> 
> OK, so now it's time to get serious.  What to do?  I hopped on the web to
> see what I could find.  Nothing on ebay, nothing anywhere really.  This rag
> is the most disposable publication in history!  However, a little more
> indepth search revealed that the WWN art director is a Cartoonist named Dave
> Kulpa who also owns the MAD Magazine competitor, Cracked.  I tracked down
> his e-mail address and sent him a plea for back issues.  It came back saying
> "mail box full", but I found another e-mail for him and resent the plea.
> 
> So far no reply.  But I am undaunted!!  I will find those back issues!  The
> frustrating thing is I KNOW that within 10 miles of my house, there is a
> stack of those puppies in at least 5 or 6 garages.  All I have to do is find
> some guy who goes to sleep with tin foil on his head to keep out the secret
> government radio waves that control all of our brains (or is it Alien radio
> waves.  I can never keep that straight)  I'm also on the lookout for UFO and
> Sasquatch conventions.  Gotta be back issues there.
> 
> If I'd been doing what should be required reading, i.e., Scott Shaw!'s
> Oddball Comics page, I would have known about this back at the beginning and
> not have this problem.  Oh, well...*
> 
> Anywho, I gotta go.  Marilyn Monroe is calling from Mars and Elvis, who
> lives in my basement, gets pissed if I don't pick up her calls.
> 
> Bye for now.  -Gary G.
> 
> * "Oh, well..." were the first words to appear in a Groo comic-the last
> panel of the Destroyer Duck appearance and were the ONLY words not lettered
> by Stan Sakai.
> 
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