SHATTERED ROMANCE by Janet Stein (Top Stories #12)

Top Stories, 1982 First edition, 24 pp., 5 1/4" X 8 1/4", Stapled wraps

Very good

“A feminist comic book…Each comic runs one or two pages, and the best are direct parodies of 1950s-style True Romances….A Top Stories bestseller… ”- Village Voice

“…Shattered Romance is an acerbic series of vignettes aimed at the soft underbelly of sex.” - Screw magazine

Founded and edited by Anne Turyn, Top Stories was a prose periodical dedicated to the fiction writing of underrepresented women artists and writers in the late seventies and eighties. First printed in 1979, every contributor was designated a full issue to create and shape as their own, sometimes in collaboration with a visual artist. As a result, much of the writing is experimental and ranges completely in style of prose and topic, making for a diverse record of New York writing at the time. The series featured numerous luminaries of the NYC downtown ethos, with issues by Constance DeJong, Cookie Mueller, Jenny Holzer/Peter Nadin, Lynne Tillman/Jane Dickson, Laurie Anderson, Pati Hill, Mary Kelly, Kathy Acker, and others.