Clowes clearly has some bitterness towards the industry, and an awareness of its often unsavory history.Īnother outstanding section relates " Dan Pussey's Masturbation Fantasy." This piece gives us astute, hilarious, and often uncomfortable insights into the psyche of an arrested adolescent who has experienced diverse kinds of bullying.Ĭlowes attacks everyone: the comic book industry, the art world, high school students, and the fanboys. The story then undercuts these comments with stories of the creative talent’s mistreatment by Infinity. Infinity lavishes praise on various artists and writers who created the major characters and trends. Gaines, Stan Lee, and other self-promoters and manipulators from the genre’s history. Infinity," Pussey's mentor and a representative of Jack Liebowitz, Harry Donenfeld, William M.
One chapter features a comic book industry event hosted by "Dr. Fantagraphics published the completed work soon thereafter, and republished it in 2006 with a new, illustrated introduction.Īlthough Pussey ends with its protagonist's death in 2029, Clowes generally eschews chronological order, and his strongest chapters take us beyond a straightforward narrative of the central character’s life. Pussey! depicts that world through the life of a long-suffering, often insufferable fanboy who gains momentary fame and fortune in the industry that has shaped him.ĭaniel Clowes wrote and illustrated the chapters of the graphic novel (pronounced Poo-say) between 19. The world of comix, however much it has influenced popular movies, television, and videogames, remains fairly insular.
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