Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children is a comic book series written by Dave Louapre and illustrated by Dan Sweetman, published by
DC Comics through their
Piranha Press imprint from June 1989 until September 1992. The series saw a total of 30 issues. A trade paperback, titled A Cotton Candy Autopsy, reprinted issues #1 and #13, and concluded the story told in those issues with a previously unpublished third part.[1]
The promotional material said that the title would be restarting in a 128-page quarterly anthology format with the first issue being titled, What If This Were Heaven, Wouldn't That Be Hell?. Despite the plan to continue publishing in this format, this would actually be the final Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children story to be released.
An image from A Cotton Candy Autopsy was used as the cover for
Mr. Bungle's
debut album.
Original series
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
Issue #19: Nice Girls Don't Massacre Ants
Issue #20: Arnold: Confessions of a Blood Junkie
Issue #21: Dances With Cows
Issue #22: Psychotronic Virgin
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
A Cotton Candy Autopsy trade paperback
What If This Were Heaven, Wouldn't That Be Hell?
Ashcan - collects twelve pages of What If This Were Heaven, Wouldn't That Be Hell?