As previously mentioned, I don't have the news section from the sixth issue of The Sunday Paper, so I can't provide a proper review of the content. Although I do have the eight-page front section, I don't want to judge it without having the entire paper to study. But at least I can provide scans of the front section and talk a little bit about the comics, which is more than I can do for the final issue, which I don't own any part of whatsoever.

I'm not sure what happened with the comics section over the course of The Sunday Papers' run. Gilbert Shelton, Bobby London, Larry Todd, Art Spiegelman, Trina Robbins and Shary Flenniken all made appearances, but only Todd stuck around for the fourth issue and none were seen again after that. By the sixth issue, even comics editor Willy Murphy was gone (did he quit?), leading me to believe that either people weren't getting paid, the working conditions were untenable, or the artists simply saw the writing on the wall (which said "doomed").

In any case, the only underground-comix household name left at the end is Jay Lynch, though Tom Gasparotti (Compost Comics, Doomsday Comics, Enigma!) and Larry Rippee (Hee Hee Comics, Gimme, All-Atomic Comics) certainly have their fans. Rick Pflug did some stuff for Yellow Dog and I don't have any idea who Jay Gee is, but they're all here in glorious color comics.

And the comics tend to suffer from the lack of star power. I think I'll have to go back to my "go-to adjective" to describe them: decent. Lynch's is probably the prize of the five-pack, but even his strip doesn't rank with his better work. So the comics of The Sunday Paper seem to go out the same way as the newspaper itself; with more of a whimper than a bang.



HISTORICAL FOOTNOTES:
It is currently unknown how many copies of this newspaper were printed. None of the seven issues were reprinted.

COMIC CREATORS:
Jay Gee
Jay Lynch
Rick Pflug
Tom Gasparotti
Larry Rippee