Description: Spaced #2 Script & Art by Jim Pinkoski 1975 Comics And Comix Company 1st & only Printing! Only 10,000 Printed! Most have been and are still being destroyed by the artist! THESE ARE HEAVILY SOUGHT AFTER BY THE ARTIST AND DESTROYED! So, get it now before it’s too late! Underground Comix! Great Shape! Some wear. See pics. Bagged & Boarded! Securely Boxed & Shipped with USPS Media Mail. See my other listings to save with COMBINED SHIPPING & pay only 25 cents per additional item! Orders over $100 get free shipping within USA! From Comixjoint.com: Spaced 1974-1976 / Comics and Comix A couple years after dropping out of college, an aspiring artist named Jim Pinkoski began working at Comics and Comix, a Berkeley comic-book retailer and distributor run by Bud Plant, Bob Beerbohm and John Barrett. Surrounded by comic-book creators and publishers, Pinkoski demonstrated his exceptional illustration skills with contributions to Spaced Out and Lair of Madness in 1972. The following year, Comics and Comix hosted the first-ever underground comix convention in Berkeley and acquired 4,000 Golden Age comic books that helped finance future company business, including the publication of Pinkoski's solo comic-book series, Spaced. Spaced was one of the first publishing ventures Comics and Comix pursued in 1974, along with Jack Katz's The First Kingdom. Pinkoski began working on the series when he was only 23 years old, but he was already a gifted illustrator with a solid command of anatomy and a flair for unusual layouts and compositions. The series ran for three issues and all featured sci-fi/fantasy stories with occasional spiritual overtones, sort of in the mold of Heavy Metal, which wouldn't debut in the states until after Spaced had completed its eye-catching little run. Every issue featured some hard-core scenes of sex and nudity, which Pinkoski would come to regret. Well, he more than regretted them, he burned them in a funeral pyre. Pinkoski had been raised Presbyterian, but his family wasn't very observant during his childhood. But in the San Francisco area, after more than 15 years living it up as a hippie artist and wicked sinner, Pinkoski became a reborn Christian at the end of 1984. His turnabout was so complete that he burned all copies of underground comics in his possession, including his own, and renounced everything he had done as an underground creator. In the three decades since, Pinkoski has used his professional energies to proselytize the salvation offered by Jesus, putting out more than a dozen books and magazines and writing many articles (some can be seen on his website). Pinkoski is a Seventh-day Adventist, a devoted disciple of Ron Wyatt, and believes in the imminent second coming of Jesus Christ. I'm not quick to disparage religious individuals (churches are another matter), but by more than one account Pinkoski has established himself near the lunatic fringe of Christianity. Even his own church has dismissed many of the beliefs that Pinkoski doggedly espouses. Which makes it all the more amusing to view Pinkoski's detailed drawings of naked girls, spread eagle sorceresses, and throbbing cocks slipping in and out of dripping c**ts. Pinkoski won't even acknowledge the existence of these comics today, but we all know what you did last summer, Jim. Spaced #2 _ Only Printing / 1975 / 36 pages / Comics and Comix _ Jim Pinkoski's second effort at a solo comic comes off measurably better than his first, which is really saying something when it comes to his already-solid illustration. Spaced #2 opens with "The Dragon's Tooth," which is presented in an 11-page chapter at the beginning of the book and a five-page chapter at the end. The opening chapter begins with three pages of naked bodies, lustful poses and verbal foreplay between Kneon, a well-hung barbarian warrior (mirthfully pictured on the front cover), and Cylvainia, a voluptuous and extremely horny sorceress. After they finally get down to fucking for a couple pages, Kneon hits the road to fulfill a favor requested by Cylvainia: bring me a dragon's tooth. After a two-day journey, Kneon battles and destroys dozens of pint-size reptilian "she-creatures" before getting to the dragon's lair. He slays the dragon but suffers a near-mortal blow himself as the first chapter concludes. The story wraps up at the end of the book with Cylvainia getting her dragon's tooth and Kneon learning a few life (and end-of-life) lessons on his death bed. The second chapter is a bit abrupt and the ending rather bizarre and heavy on the melodramatic narration, but it has a spooky atmosphere that fits the mood. In between chapters of "The Dragon's Tooth" are a series of dream sequences called "Lil Nemo Starring in Slight Omen in Slumber Land" and a short vampire tale called "Vamp." The "Lil Nemo" strips are parodies of Windsor McCay's landmark "Little Nemo in Slumberland" newspaper strip from the early 20th century. McCay's innovative full-page comics depicted a little boy named Nemo having amazing dreams that always ended when he woke up in his bed in the final panel. Pinkoski's "Lil Nemo" stories faithfully replicates McCay's characters and elements of the strip, but adapts them into dream sequences about childhood sexual development. Pinkoski surrounds his Nemo with naked, ugly villains who fear Nemo's innocence, gigantic vaginas and landscapes of female breasts, and a Satan-type character who lectures Nemo about his frustrating future as a heterosexual male teenager. Of course, this is tricky territory to navigate, but Pinkoski doesn't dodge bullets just to stay safe. He never shows Nemo in the nude, but he does depict plenty of surreal adult erogenous zones and portrays a little girl in the nude as an example of someone who will mature into a sex object that Nemo will eventually masturbate about. Though daring in its subject matter and imagery, it's fair to say that Pinkoski executed these stories without crossing the most gratuitous lines in the sand. The only other comic book that tackles the subject of child sexual development is Jim Himes' Sex and Affection, but Himes had an entirely different (more wholesome and educational, but still utterly honest) approach to the subject. What's really remarkable is knowing that Pinkoski was ever capable of this type of storytelling given his current beliefs as a Seventh Day Adventist. The short vampire tale "Vamp" is a fairly innocuous story about a female vampire who enters a stranger's home to suck his blood...and then suck his dick. The five pages of illustrations are stylish indeed, but the rhyming narrative is rather fawning. Spaced #2 is an adventurous display of bold illustrations and dynamic compositions. Pinkoski's use of various screentones, cross-hatching and stippling builds compelling images that are a joy to ponder. That he employs these skills to portray the audacious sexual images he does leaves erotic art fans wishing he had never found God...or at least that he had found God in the same way Rick Griffin did. _ keyline _ HISTORICAL FOOTNOTES: Comics and Comix printed approximately 10,000 copies of this comic book. It has not been reprinted. _ COMIC CREATORS: Jim Pinkoski - 1-34, 36 J.R.L - 35 (poem)
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Artist/Writer: Matt Groening, Gary Panter
Tradition: US Comics
Series Title: HOO-BE-BOO
Universe: Underground Comix
Intended Audience: Viewer Discretion Advised
Vintage: Yes
Publication Year: 1983
Type: Comic Book
Format: Single Issue
Issue Number: 1
Language: English
Era: Bronze Age (1970-84)
Genre: Bad Girl, Cosmic, Dream, Drugs, Good Girl, Historical & Mythological, Horror & Sci-Fi, Monster, Occult, Pin-Up, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Underground, Weird
