By John Kerschbaum (Fantagraphics Books)
ISBN: 978-1-56097-979-1
Finally generally available in England (as well as from your usual online sources) is this latest compilation from Xeric-Award winning cartoonist (for The Wiggly Reader) John Kerschbaum who regularly dispatches the strangest and most engrossing cartoon treats from his lair in 21st century Brooklyn.
Petey & Pussy is surreal, rude, crass, crude with studied obnoxiousness, and bitterly, bitingly funny in a perfect post-modern manner. Petey is the foulest of all dogs and he’s got a balding human head on his shoulders. His best pal is a sleek, short-sighted house-cat, afflicted with the same sort of bonce. Both drink, smoke and talk far, far too much. To themselves, each other, all the animals and even humans – especially Joe the Barman who keeps them supplied with booze and smokes…
Blending gross-out comedy, wry observation and sheer manic invention Kerschbaum takes the imagined lives of ordinary urban house-pets – such as Bernie the suicidal yet unkillable caged bird or Hercules, the Boa Constrictor of Death – and mixes them with the tribulations of modern society – senile dementia, thieving relatives, lost eye-glasses, bars where you can’t smoke and the inescapable fact that everybody is a total jerk – to reveal an utterly captivating world of bawdy, grown-up laughs that only the most po-faced conservative could resist.
Adult fun for slacker smart-asses of all ages guaranteed to make your beer spurt out of your nose so read carefully…
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