dope 01 sewer bugs
dope 01 sewer bugs
Kitchen Sink February 1978
The first issue of Dope Comix sports an exquisite Leslie Cabarga front cover featuring costumed sewer bugs engaged in pot smoking torture. The stories in the debut issue include “Quaalude 714,” “The Great Marijuana Debate,” “Fun With Dope,” and “Little Bungo in Reefer Land.” These might sound like inviting titles, but Dope Comix is clearly not designed to celebrate the joys of recreational drug use. It is designed to scare the shit out of anyone who used illicit drugs and stereotype those types of people as brain-dead morons of the lowest order.
Leslie Carbarga – 1 • Dan Steffan – 2, 7-9, 31-33 • Steve Stiles – 3-6, 23 • Sharon Kahn Rudahl – 10-11 • Kim Deitch – 12-14 • Denis Kitchen – 12, 15, 36 • Peter Poplaski – 12, 14 • Jay Lynch – 12, 13, 15 • Larry Rippee – 16 • Joel Beck – 17-20 • Leonard Rifas – 21-22 • Doug Hansen – 24-29 • Ken Fletcher – 30 • Howard Cruse – 34
2 – Quaalude 714 • 3 – Roger of the Academy • 7 – Get A Job • 10 – Midnight on Ave. B • 12 – The Great Marijuana Debate • 16 – O.D. The Magazine That Gets Down • 17 – The Great North Pole Massacre • 21 – Ell Arr, The Subversive From Mars • 23 – Fun With Dope • 24 – Little Bungo in Reefer Land • 30 – Coke Float • 31 – Hitch Hike • 34 – Big Marvey in Marvy’s First Toke • 35 – Krupp Comic Works (ad) • 36 – Can’t Get Stoned