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1979

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Incorporated Press, Inc. May 18, 1979, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives May 1979

Incorporated Press, Inc. May 18, 1979, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Incorporated Press, Inc. was a student publication released biweekly beginning in 1979. The issue of May 18-May 27 1979 includes an article about censorship at RISD and RISD Commencement events. Concerts, art exhibitions, plays and lectures that took place on the RISD campus and in the Providence area were also included.

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Incorporated Press, Inc. April 6, 1979, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives Apr 1979

Incorporated Press, Inc. April 6, 1979, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Incorporated Press, Inc. was a student publication released biweekly beginning in 1979. The issue of April 6-May 3, 1979 includes articles about the possibility of a RISD faculty strike, which did not happen. Also mentioned was the problem of information about events being hidden from students. Poems, photographs and drawings are also in this issue.

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Incorporated Press, Inc. March 20, 1979, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives Mar 1979

Incorporated Press, Inc. March 20, 1979, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Incorporated Press, Inc. was a student publication released biweekly beginning in 1979. The issue of March 20-April 17, 1979 has articles and letters about the RISD Faculty Union and a possible strike. There also was an article about Art Wood who had passed away and one of his comic strips. Calendar listings were also included.

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Incorporated Press, Inc. March 6, 1979, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives Mar 1979

Incorporated Press, Inc. March 6, 1979, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Incorporated Press, Inc. was a student publication released biweekly beginning in 1979. The issue of March 6, 1979 includes articles about the RISD faculty union negotiations. A distinguished author series took place at RISD also. Drawings, poems and short essays were also featured. Events at RISD and the Providence area were also mentioned.

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Incorporated Press, Inc. February 12, 1979, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives Feb 1979

Incorporated Press, Inc. February 12, 1979, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Incorporated Press, Inc. was a student publication released biweekly beginning in 1979. The issue of February 12, 1979 includes photographs from Tennessee and Alabama by Clifton Meador, RISD photo student. Also photos from Rome are also included. Articles about the RISD faculty union negotiations and possible strike are included. Events are listed that took place on the RISD campus and the Providence area.

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Best Buy Comics, R. Crumb, Special Collections, Fleet Library Feb 1979

Best Buy Comics, R. Crumb, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Underground Comix

[32] pages : illustrations. All stories and strips first published in Coevolution Quarterly except "Aline and Bob go to the Whole Earth Jamboree." Cover title: R. Crumb's Best Buy comics. Color cover illustrations, b&w interior. The Adler Archive of Underground Comix, Gift of Bill Adler.

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Incorporated Press, Inc. January 26, 1979, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives Jan 1979

Incorporated Press, Inc. January 26, 1979, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Incorporated Press, Inc. was a student publication released biweekly beginning in 1979. The issue of January 26, 1979 was devoted to the RISD faculty union talks and interviews with some of the key players. Some contract specifics were mentioned. The Faculty Association had formed a Strike Committee. Ads for local businesses were also included in this issue.

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Dopin’ Dan, No. 1 (Revised Edition), Ted Richards, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1979

Dopin’ Dan, No. 1 (Revised Edition), Ted Richards, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Underground Comix

3 numbers: chiefly illustrations. Publication Date: Began with: Vol. 1, no. 1 (April 1972); ceased with Vol. 1, no. 3 (October 1973). A sequel to Dopin' Dan was published in 1981 as: Today's Army with Dopin' Dan. Color cover illustrations, b&w interiors. Library has nos. 1-3. No. 1 is revised edition, published Jan. 1979. The Adler Archive of Underground Comix, Gift of Bill Adler.

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The Checkered Demon Iii, S. Clay Wilson, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1979

The Checkered Demon Iii, S. Clay Wilson, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Underground Comix

3 volumes : illustrations. "Adults only." Nos. [1] and 3 in a wider than tall format, no. 2 in standard comic book format. Issues contain material collected from the Checkered Demon comic strip which ran in the L.A. Weekly. LOCAL NOTE Library has nos. [1], 2, 3The Adler Archive of Underground Comix, Gift of Bill Adler.

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Yearbook, 1979, Risd Archives, Center For Student Involvement (Csi) Jan 1979

Yearbook, 1979, Risd Archives, Center For Student Involvement (Csi)

RISD Yearbooks

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Flamingo In The Dark, Bea Nettles, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1979

Flamingo In The Dark, Bea Nettles, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

case bound in hard cover, foil stamped cover text; cover; interior pages. A series of complex layered photo montages in color.

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The Bunch’S Power Pak Comics (No. 1), Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1979

The Bunch’S Power Pak Comics (No. 1), Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Underground Comix

The Adler Archive of Underground Comix, Gift of Bill Adler.

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American Splendor, No. 4, Harvey Pekar, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1979

American Splendor, No. 4, Harvey Pekar, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Underground Comix

volumes : illustrations. Began in 1976 with #1; ceased in 1993 with #17. American Splendor is a series of autobiographical comic books written by Harvey Pekar and drawn by a variety of artists. The first issue was published in 1976 and the last one in September 2008, with publication occurring at irregular intervals (Pekar died in 2010). Publishers were, at various times, Harvey Pekar himself, Dark Horse Comics, and DC Comics. In addition to R. Crumb, Pekar's most well-known and longest-running collaborators included Gary Dumm, Greg Budgett, Spain Rodriguez, Joe Zabel, Gerry Shamray, Frank Stack, Mark Zingarelli, and Joe Sacco. …

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Snappy Sammy Smoot, Skip Williamson, Bijou, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1979

Snappy Sammy Smoot, Skip Williamson, Bijou, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Underground Comix

[32] pages : chiefly illustrations. At head of cover title: Skip Williamson's comix & stories featuring ... "Adults only." Snappy Sammy Smoot is an American underground comix character created by Skip Williamson in 1968. A counterculture Candide who never loses his innocence, Smoot appeared in his own strips in a number of comix titles, most notably Bijou Funnies, Comix Book, and Blab!. Cultural critic David Manning White wrote about the strip, "But what is . . . interesting about 'Snappy Sammy Smoot' is that it manages to be politically radical at the same time it is satirical and funny," and …

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A Bestiary, Sarah Chamberlain, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1979

A Bestiary, Sarah Chamberlain, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Miniature Books

19 unnumbered leaves : all illustrations ; 60 mm (6 x 6 cm). "This book was printed at the Chamberlain Press & bound by Sallie Ruff. The paper is Troya & the type is Cancelleresca"--Colophon. Edition limited to 125 numbered copies. "... The 90 regular copies are bound in Japanese paste paper over boards. There are 35 deluxe copies bound in silk with vellum. An extra suite of signed engravings accompany the book [i.e. the deluxe issue], and are laid into a folding box [and housed with the book in a slip case]"--Prospectus. Title page printed in black with printer's …

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Wild Waves, Barton Mcneil, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1979

Wild Waves, Barton Mcneil, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[11] leaves : illustration. "Conceived and printed letterpress in an edition of 200 by Barton McNeil, 1979"--colophon. Unbound, [11] folded leaves, in paper cover. Most leaves printed with the single word, "splash." Printed in various fonts, and sizes. Address of the Press printed on page [4] of cover. Gift of Jan Baker.

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Things Don't Always Fall Into Place, Janet Zweig, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1979

Things Don't Always Fall Into Place, Janet Zweig, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[16] pages : color illustrations. Cover title. "I separated the colors of these things directly onto black and white film by photographing each 4 times through the color filters that are the complements of process printing inks. Tom Sullivan recombined their colors on the Heidelberg Kord offset press at the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, N.Y."--Colophon. RISD Faculty. Offset, experimental, printing. Pamphlet stitch. Paper cover includes a color reproduction of a Nancy comic strip panel. 2nd copy gift of the RISD Photography Resource Center.

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