mrt 03 party time
mrt 03 party time
Kitchen Sink March 1973
Mickey Rat #3 features a couple of solid Dizzy Ratstein stories and the classic “It’s Party Time.” Mickey Rat issues #3 and #4 were published in 1980 and 1982, respectively, by Last Gasp.
In the mid-1970s, R. Crumb’s friend Harvey Pekar laid out a few of his autobiographical stories with crude stick figures and showed them to Crumb and Armstrong. Impressed, they both offered to illustrate, and both contributed to Pekar’s earliest published comics[3] (although Armstrong never illustrated any stories in Pekar’s comic book series American Splendor). Over his career, Armstrong has contributed to many anthologies (many involving Mickey Rat), including Weirdo, Arcade, and Comix Book. Armstrong’s work was included in Fantagraphics’ 1991 collection Best Comics of the Decade, Vol. 1.
0. [no title indexed] Mickey Rat • 1. [Interior front cover] • Mickey Rat • 2. Visiting Day in the Neuro Ward • Mickey Rat • 3. Dizzy Ratstein • Dizzy Ratstein • 4. Sound As A Dollar • Mickey Rat • 5. Dizzy Ratstein • Dizzy Ratstein • 6. In Old Chinatown • Mickey Rat • 7. It’s Party Time • 8. Bored to Raise Hell • Mickey Rat • 9. The Budget-Minded Connoisseur • Mickey Rat • 10. About Face • Mickey Rat • 11. Atomic Cocktail • Dizzy Ratstein • 12. [Promotional Advertisement] • Last Gasp, Inc. • 13. Interesting Facts About Rats • Mickey Rat