#15 Rather Fight Than Switch
#15 Rather Fight Than Switch
Kitchen Sink March 1990
The final issue of Snarf kicks off with a four-page collaboration between David Abu Bacha and Bernie Mireault called “How Sweet It Is!” It’s about one guy giving another guy a banana to eat and then telling him a story about how he conducted a little science experiment with a banana when he was just a kid. Richard Sala graces the pages of Snarf for the first time with the one-page “Another Mad Doktor.”
French cartoonist Édouard Karali (aka Édika) returns with the seven-page “Chomdu.” It’s about a dental surgeon visiting the local unemployment office. Wayne Honath (aka Wayno) gives us a two-pager in a different, more polished drawing style than his previous work, entitled “Another Night at Scottie’s.” It’s a simple piece where three guys riff about different phrases for taking a shit.
George Jablonski gets three more pages for his bizarre farmer Ned, who stars in two stories; the first with a cow and the second with a pig. Danish cartoonist Kellie Strøm’s two-pager follows, which is a unrequited love story between two trees called “The Burning Bush and the Wooden Heart.”
After another effective one-pager from Mark Landman (who also has a second one later in the book), P.S. Mueller with a four-pager about his sadistic clown Whoppo. Joe Matt also returns with four more one-pagers about his volatile life. Three of the pages concern his brief jobs at a fast-food restaurant, a blueberry farm and a comic-book shop.
Dave Schreiner’s introduction on the inside front cover does mention “we’ve been experiencing some ‘bad numbers’ with Snarf,” but he declares “there will be a next issue” and even shows off the front cover art of Snarf #16 by Joe Matt. There’s even a web page dedicated to Snarf #16 that shows an entirely different front cover by Mark Landman and promises that the new issue is “coming soon!” Snarf #16 would be edited by Mark Landmand and would feature Drew Friedman, Jim Woodring and Tony Millionaire, among many others, But then, the copyright for the book on the web page is 1996, so you know that “coming soon” turned out to be not so soon. #16 was never published.
Not many golden-age undergrounds could claim to survive all the way into the 1990s, so Snarf is a proud member in a pretty exclusive club with Zap Comix, Rip Off Comix, Slow Death, Wimmen’s Comix, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, and Young Lust.
#15 Rather Fight Than Switch
