Shelton edited issues #11–12. With issue #11 (Fall 1982), "Rip Off Comix" converted to magazine format, adding text features as well as comix. It also began billing itself as "the International Journal of Humor and Cartoon Art." Shelton and Paul Mavrides began serializing "The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers in The Idiots Abroad" in issues #11 and 12. Issue #12 featured Danish cartoonists, including Storm Petersen, Fred Milton, Claus Deleuran, Ole Pihl, Peter Kielland-Brandt, Mardon Smet, Henning Kure, Sussi Bech, and Joergen Nielsen.