Last Gasp Archives : The Shared Universe https://www.theshareduniverse.com/tag/last-gasp/ The Internet's Bay Bridge connecting the Bay Area's comic fandom. Sat, 08 Aug 2015 14:57:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Last Gasp seeks to publish historic manga “Barefoot Gen” https://www.theshareduniverse.com/last-gasp-seeks-to-publish-historic-manga-barefoot-gen/ Sat, 08 Aug 2015 14:57:46 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=948 Berkeley comics publisher Last Gasp has launched a Kickstarter in an effort to print 4,000 hardcover editions of the historic World War II manga, Barefoot Gen. The manga, originally published in the mid-70s, tells the story of six-year-old Gen Nakaoka and his interactions with other survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Gen not only struggles with the […]

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]]> Comix publisher Last Gasp holding logo design contest https://www.theshareduniverse.com/comix-publisher-last-gasp-holding-logo-design-contest/ Tue, 04 Mar 2014 15:41:37 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=632 Are you interested in having your name join the ranks of R. Crumb, Mark Ryden, and Saeki Toshio? Last Gasp, perhaps the longest running publisher of comix, has a unique opportunity for you. As an alternative comix publisher it perhaps isn’t surprising that the company has resisted traditional branding and have allowed artists to apply […]

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]]> The first comic book store owner has passed away https://www.theshareduniverse.com/first-comic-book-store-owner-passed-away/ Sat, 18 Jan 2014 08:38:38 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=550 According to ICv2 Gary Edson Arlington, who founded the San Francisco Comic Book Company, passed away on January 16, 2014. Arlington was a comic pioneer opening in 1968 the San Francisco Comic Book Company at  3339 23rd Street in the Mission District. The store is thought by many to be the first comic book store […]

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]]> Last Gasp’s Ron Turner to be roasted at LitQuake https://www.theshareduniverse.com/last-gasps-ron-turner-roasted-litquake/ Wed, 16 Oct 2013 00:16:04 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=347 When I wrote about comic related events at San Francisco’s LitQuake this year I made one glaring omission: LitQuake’s 2013 Barbary Coast Award Roast of Last Gasp’s Ron Turner. Last Gasp is perhaps one of the most well known “comix” publishers from the 1970s. Many other underground publishers were hit hard by a 1973 Supreme Court ruling that local communities […]

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