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bcquarterly
#3
spring2018
of m u i d n e re a comcp u t l u c , s comi l & coo
BLACK CROWN HQ Shelly Bond, Editor • Chris Ryall, drinks Guinness • Chase Marotz, Editorial Assistant • Aditya Bidikar, Letterer Arlene Lo, Proofreader • Kahlil Schweitzer, Marketing Maestro • Steven Scott, Publicity Philip Bond, logo, publication design and general dogsbody • Greg Goldstein, President & Publisher BLACK CROWN is a fully functioning curation operation based in Los Angeles by way of IDW Publishing. Accept No Substitutes!
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BLACK CROWN QUARTERLY #3. APRIL 2018. FIRST PRINTING. Kid Lobotomy ©™Peter Milligan and Tess Fowler. Assassinistas ©™Tini Howard and Gilbert Hernandez. Punks Not Dead ©™David Barnett and Martin Simmonds. CUD: Rich and Strange ©™Will Potter, Carl Puttnam and Philip Bond. EUTHANAUTS ©™Tini Howard and Nick Robles. Gorgons ©™ Leah Moore and Dilraj Mann © 2018 Idea and Design Works, LLC. All Rights Reserved. IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Editorial offices: 2765 Truxtun Road, San Diego, CA 92106. The IDW logo is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Any similarities to persons living or dead are purely coincidental. With the exception of artwork used for review purposes, none of the contents of this publication may be reprinted without the permission of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Printed in Korea. IDW Publishing does not read or accept unsolicited submissions of ideas, stories, or artwork.
CONTENTS
TALES FROM THE BLACK CROWN PUB • A SINGER’S TALE by Rob Davis ................................................................ pages 3 - 10 SWELL MAPS • NEWCASTLE by Cathi Unsworth + Cara McGee .......................... pages 12 - 13
TALES FROM THE RAYGUN • The Butterscotch & Soda Massacre by Peter Milligan & Kristian Rossi ......... pages 14 - 17 GHOST-WALK WITH ME • Canon Street by Torchlight by Tini Howard, Philip Bond & Eva de la Cruz ......... pages 19 - 24 PULL-OUT POSTER •
SIDE A by Philip Bond SIDE B by Dilraj Mann ................. dead center
TINI HOWARD ON THIS MORTAL COIL by David Barnett ........................................................ pages 26 - 27 EUTHANAUTS preview by Tini Howard + Nick Robles ................................ pages 28 - 30 CUD: RICH AND STRANGE • TRACK 21/2 by Will Potter, Carl Puttnam + Philip Bond ....................... page 32 FOUR CHAMBERS with CUD frontman Carl Puttnam ..... page 33 CANONBALL COMICS • COMME des GORGONS by Leah Moore + Dilraj Mann ................................. pages 34 - 38 BEAT SURRENDER by Leah Moore ................................................................. page 39 PRETTY IN PUNK • Exclusive PND feature by David Barnett & Martin Simmonds ...................... pages 41 - 45 LAST SHOUT! LETTERS PAGES .................................................... pages 46 - 47 HEY, AMATEUR! HOW TO SPOT A GALAXY IN 9 PANELS by Emmeline Pidgen ...................................................... page 48
This issue of the BCQ is dedicated to Chris Ryall, best boss ever. May he continue to drink Guinness wherever he goes. Viva Comics!
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