"Rapture" by "Triangle-Slash" (1995)

Seattle, Washington, US: Starhead Comix (book, comic), 1995.
11" x 8.5" x 0.25", appx. 116 pages [unpaginated], post-bound, 500 numbered copies.

Rapture, a comic by the artist known as "Triangle-Slash" [a symbol of a triangle with a line through it], as hand-made and published by Starhead Comix (Seattle, Washington, US) in 1995. Each of the 500 copies produced is numbered, signed with the artist's symbol, and has a thumbprint in the artist's blood. 

This contains "The Finger by William Lee," a nine-page comic on the severing of William S. Burroughs' little finger, an account in which he seeks to impress a "girl" by removing the finger as a "trifling memento of my undying affection." Another myth about the amputation.

This copy is a presentation copy inscribed by Triangle-Slash to Jeffrey Weinberg, a bookseller who sold Triangle-Slash's works. This is signed by symbol and dated "9-26-95." I received this copy directly from Jeffrey Weinberg.

In 2026, I received a letter from Jeffrey with a processed check made out to Triangle-Slash, as a "Finger Deposit". This is also signed on the back with the artist's symbol. These are now maintained with the copy.

Shoaf II.347.

Selected Contents:

• Elan Vital
• Dedication to Jesse Bernstein
• "Rapture"
• Illustrated advertisements
• "The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow"
• "Jesse Bernstein with The Crows and Raw Flower [at the Off Ramp Cafe & Lounge]"
• "The Finger by William Lee"
• assorted comics
• "I Am Dead Fragile"
• "Make A Wish Comes True"
• "Lover"
• "Car Accident by S. J. Bernstein"
• "You Brain"
• "Jerking ... Eyes ... Open ..."
• "Suicide"
• "Love Angst: A Love Story by Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire"
• named icons
• "Jim Rose Circus"
• "Absinthe Drinkers"
• "Back in '57 ..."
• "Kiss the Sky My Voo Doo Chile"
• "Tattoo Parlor"
• "Ye Nameless Thing"
• "The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow"
• "Holy Foods for Healthy Heathens"
• "Near-Death of a Mailman by Dennis P. Eichhorn"
• "My Vito"
• "Felo de Se"
• "Poison"
• "Shut Up Little Man"
• "De mortuis nil nisi bonum"
• "My main goal ..."