City People Notebook #[nn] (1989) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

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Series: City People Notebook (Kitchen Sink Press, 1989 series)
Issue: #[nn]
Publication date: 1989
Key date: 1989
On-sale date: 1989
Indicia publisher: Kitchen Sink Press Inc.
Price: $8.96; 12.55 CAD
Pages: 92
ISBN: 0-87816-054-X

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner
1	-	credits, title page	2	letters: typeset
2	Foreword	text story	3	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner; letters: Will Eisner
3	Time	comic story	1	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner; letters: Will Eisner
4	On-timesmanship	comic story	8	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner; letters: Will Eisner
5	Daytime	comic story	1	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner
6	Night Time	comic story	1	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner
7	Life Time	comic story	4	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner
8	Time Out!	comic story	4	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner
9	Internal time	comic story	4	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner; letters: Will Eisner
10	Time Frame	comic story	4	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner
11	Borrowed Time	comic story	4	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner; letters: Will Eisner
12	Smell	comic story	1	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner; letters: Will Eisner
13	Uptown smells	comic story	1	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner; letters: Will Eisner
14	Downtown Smells	comic story	1	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner
15	Smellshock	comic story	1	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner; letters: Will Eisner
16	Smellbound	comic story	8	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner; letters: Will Eisner
17	Smellmanship	comic story	2	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner
18	Space	comic story	6	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner; letters: Will Eisner
19	Involvement vs. Space	comic story	2	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner
20	Spatial Relations	comic story	1	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner; letters: Will Eisner
21	Upper Space	comic story	1	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner
22	Space Rights	comic story	2	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner; letters: Will Eisner
23	Urban Reflex	comic story	4	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner
24	Collisions	comic story	8	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner; letters: Will Eisner
25	Street Smarts	comic story	2	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner; letters: Will Eisner
26	Information Flow	comic story	1	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner; letters: Will Eisner
27	City Noise	comic story	1	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner; letters: Will Eisner
28	Opportunity	comic story	1	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner; letters: Will Eisner
29	Life Flow	comic story	1	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner
30	Anonymity	comic story	1	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner; letters: Will Eisner
31	Loneliness	comic story	1	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner; letters: Will Eisner
32	Empty Street	comic story	1	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner; letters: Will Eisner
33	Angry Street	comic story	1	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner; letters: Will Eisner
34	Sad Street	comic story	1	script: Will Eisner; pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner; letters: Will Eisner
35	-	illustration	1	pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner
36	Graphic Essays on City Living	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Will Eisner; inks: Will Eisner

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Mad #287	1989	On eBay ›
City People Notebook #[nn] ISBN 1-56389-680-X	2000	On eBay ›
The Best Comics of the Decade #2 ISBN 0560970374; 9780560970371	1990	On eBay ›
Will Eisner's New York: Life in the Big City #[nn] ISBN 978-0-393-06106-2; 0-393-06106-X	2006	On eBay ›

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Sources

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