Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children is a comic book series written by Dave Louapre and illustrated by Dan Sweetman, published by DC Comics

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 under the Piranha Press

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 imprint from June 1989 until September 1992, a total of 30 issues in the run (and a couple of anthologies published separately).

In late 2006, Dave Louapre announced there would be a collected edition published but the Canadian publisher they were in talks with went belly up later that year. Sweetman was last heard to be storyboarding the Get Smart

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and Louapre was seeking other publishing alternatives.

According to an entry on Amazon.com, a trade paperback containing the first 5 issues was to be released from BOOM! Studios in October 2008. On October 27, 2008, BOOM! Studios confirmed via email that they were not publishing a BSFUC trade paperback and that they would be contacting Amazon.com to correct the false entry. The BSFUC website has not been updated since October 31, 2006 and there has been no word from authors Dan Sweetman and Dave Louapre regarding BSFUC's future.

Stories from BSFUC

• Issue #1: A Cotton Candy Autopsy

• Issue #2: The Dead Johnsons' Big Incredible Day

• Issue #3: Diary of a Depressed Tap Dancer

• Issue #4: The Black Balloon

• Issue #5: The Crypt of The Magi

• Issue #6: Happy Birthday to Hell

• Issue #7: Ricky The Doughnut Boy

• Issue #8: Die Rainbow Die

• Issue #9: By The Light of The Screaming Moon

• Issue #10: Where The Tarantulas Play

• Issue #11: The Daffodils of Plague Town

• Issue #12: Beneath The Useless Universe

• Issue #13: A Cotton Candy Autopsy II - Bingo And Addy's Escape

• Issue #14: Dangerous Prayers

• Issue #15: The Pagan Tourist

• Issue #16: The Santas of Demotion Street

• Issue #17: A Conspiracy of Sweaters

• Issue #18: The Neutered Beast, a tale about a cupid.

• Issue #19: Nice Girls Don't Massacre Ants

• Issue #20: Arnold: Confessions of a Blood Junkie

• Issue #21: Dances With Fat Girls the Chew Up all on my Bubble Gum!

• Issue #22: Psychotronic Virgin... "TIGHT

• Issue #23: Tiny Slimy, Writhing Thing

• Issue #24: I Am Paul's Dog

• Issue #25: Legion of Ogs

• Issue #26: Dead Like Me

• Issue #27: The No-Wax Killing Floor

• Issue #28: The Guilty Orphan

• Issue #29: Gravity Sucks

• Issue #30: The Dream is Dead - Gone, Shot Off, All Squashed Flat

Other BSFUC tales

• The Wasteland, a book of single-panel cartoons by Louapre and Sweetman.

• What If This Were Heaven, Wouldn't That Be Hell?, BSFUC anthology of all-new stories.

• A Cotton Candy Autopsy (collecting issues #1 and 13, plus a brand-new story)

External links

• Official site