Notes from a Defeatist #[nn] (2003) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

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Series: Notes from a Defeatist (Fantagraphics, 2003 series)
Issue: #[nn]
Publication date: 2003
Key date: 2003
Indicia publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
Price: $19.95; 31.95 CAD
Pages: 220
Barcode: 978156097510651995
ISBN: 1-56097-510-5

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
1	-	blank page(s)	2
2	-	credits, title page	4	pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco
3	Notes from a Defeatist: Introduction	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	2	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco
4	Part One: Cartoon Genius	credits, title page	2	pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
5	Cartoon Genius	comic story	6	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
6	Part Two: Eight Characters	credits, title page	2	pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco
7	The Arnold Homecastle Story	comic story	2	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Arnold Homecastle
8	Oliver Limpdingle's Search for Love	comic story	2	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Oliver Limpdingle; Oliver's Date; 'Bruiser' Beefbruno
9	The Man Who Wanted to Change the World	comic story	4	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Zachary Mindbiscuit; Moppy
10	A Successful First Day on the Job	comic story	4	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Johnny Sentence; Mr. Bigwhipple; Blonde Coworker; Boyfriend from Accounts Payable
11	Edwin Smallcabbage's White Collar Incursion	comic story	4	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Edwin Smallcabbage; Mr. Stompsit; William; Chairman of the Board; Ms. Smidlint
12	Portrait of an Artist as a Young Alessio Easelsmear	comic story	5	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Alessio Easelsmear; Alessio's Admirer; Mrs. Bottomlessquidnumb; Zeno
13	Stanton K. Pragmatron - Part of a New Breed	comic story	5	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Stanton K. Pragmatron; Jed; Department Boss; Mr. Sweetthistles
14	Mr. Nit – A Very Rich Person	comic story	1	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Mr. Nit; Philatelist; Perforation Expert; Mr. Smoft
15	Mark Victorystooge	comic story	0.5	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Mark Victorystooge
16	Smash the Bourgeoisie!	comic story	0.5	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Mark Victorystooge; Cynthia; Stage Director
17	Mark Victorystooge	comic story	0.5	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Mark Victorystooge; Cynthia; Stage Director
18	Mark Victorystooge	comic story	0.5	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Mark Victorystooge; Cynthia
19	Mark Victorystooge	comic story	0.5	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Mark Victorystooge; Cynthia
20	Mark Victorystooge!	comic story	0.5	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Mark Victorystooge; Cynthia
21	Mark Victorystooge	comic story	0.5	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Mark Victorystooge
22	Mark Victorystooge	comic story	0.5	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Mark Victorystooge; Cynthia; Mark's Peer
23	Mark Victorystooge	comic story	1	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Mark Victorystooge; Worker
24	Part Three: Social Studies	credits, title page	2	pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
25	Meat	comic story	4	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
26	Edward L. Warren	comic story	6	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
27	The Truth Hurtz- The Mid-70s	comic story	1	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
28	Part Four: In the Company of Long Hair	credits, title page	1	pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco
29	I Gotta Right	comic story	5	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
30	I Called the Doctor	comic story	1	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	The Miracle Workers [Gerry Mohr; Robert Butler; Gene Trautmann]
31	Looking at You	comic story	1	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
32	Untold Fables	comic story	1	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	The Miracle Workers [Gerry Mohr; Matt Rogers; Robert Butler; Gene Trautmann]
33	Oh My and Boo Hoo	comic story	4	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
34	Untold Fables...	comic story	1	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Tony; The Miracle Workers [Gerry Mohr; Matt Rogers; Robert Butler; Gene Trautmann]
35	Magic Slide	comic story	2	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
36	You've Got Your Head on Backwards	comic story	3	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
37	”Robert, your bass playing was Einstein...”	comic story	1	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Hutch; The Miracle Workers [Gerry Mohr; Matt Rogers; Robert Butler; Gene Trautmann]
38	No Fun to Hang Around	comic story	3	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
39	Nothing More to Say	comic story	1	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	The Miracle Workers [Matt Rogers; Robert Butler; Gene Trautmann]
40	Slow Death	comic story	8	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
41	Part Five: A Disgusting Experience	credits, title page	1	pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco
42	A Disgusting Experience	comic story	12	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
43	Part Six: Voyage to the End of the Library	credits, title page	2	pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
44	Voyage to the End of the Library	comic story	9	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
45	Part Seven: When Good Bombs Happen to Bad People	credits, title page	1	pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco
46	Introduction	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	script: Joe Sacco
47	When Good Bombs Happen to Bad People	comic story	9	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco
48	Part Eight: More Women, More Children, More Quickly	credits, title page	2	pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco
49	More Women, More Children, More Quickly	comic story	22	script: Joe Sacco, Carmen M. Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Carmen M. Sacco; Mr. Sacco; Guza Sacco; Egizza Vidal; Uncle Censu; Mrs. Sacco; Gianna; Kuncett; Dun Guzepp; Karmni; Evelyn; Man on the road
50	Part Nine: How I Loved the War	credits, title page	3	pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco
51	Wait!	comic story	1	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
52	The Human Spirit (Berlin '90)	comic story	8	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
53	Desert Sheep #1	comic story	1	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
54	Palestinians and Other Problems	comic story	3	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
55	Notes from a Defeatist	comic story	2	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
56	Save Us	comic story	3	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
57	Desert Sheep #2	comic story	1	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
58	Next Tuesday After Midnight	comic story	2	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
59	War Junkie!	comic story	2	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
60	Much Better, Thank You!	comic story	1	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
61	Think Zinc	comic story	3	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
62	Hate is Love	comic story	2	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
63	Was I Right?	comic story	2	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
64	Goodbye to All That	comic story	1	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
65	Desert Sheep #3	comic story	1	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
66	Part Ten: Epilogue: On My Day Off	credits, title page	3	pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco
67	On My Day Off (Berlin '91)	comic story	7	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Joe Sacco
68	Notes from a Defeatist: Apocrypha	illustration	2	pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco
69	Apocrypha: Introduction	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	script: Joe Sacco
70	Industrial Revolution	comic story	2	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco
71	The Empire and the Exploits of Col. Singo-Jingo, M.C., V.C., B.C.	comic story	5	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	Col. Singo-Jingo; Colonel Bruce Fitzwillynilly; Lt. Dandyo
72	The Buffoon's Tale	comic story	6	script: Joe Sacco; pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco; letters: Joe Sacco	John; Gwin; Friar; Cooper's Daughter; The Cooper; Bishop; Young Tot
73	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset
74	-	blank page(s)	1
75	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Joe Sacco; inks: Joe Sacco

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