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Synopsis
Rob "Rocco" Maisch has lived an amazing life. He grew up a wise guy prankster in a small to medium-sized town in the fabled Sixties, he went to college, he became a mall manager in the dismal Seventies, he's gone through one marriage and is in another... And he's lived an amazing life.You see, what's really amazing about Rob's life is that he remembers. From mis-spent youth to addled adutlhood, from the rush of the first junior-high dance to the letdown of meeting that great boyhood TV hero, Rob can recall and recount with sharp color and gusto the little gems we each encounter in our everyday lives but that most of us let fade in our memories.Rob may be a wise guy but he's also quite a raconteur. Our raconteur of our lives. And Rob has lived an amazing life. Adapted by some of America's leading artists.
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From Publishers Weekly
Maisch's second volume of autobiographical stories is puerile and dull. The author clearly prides himself on the pranks he has pulled over the course of his life, but they neither amuse nor ring true. The stories are reasonably funny and well-observed when they concern Maisch's misspent youth, but obnoxious when they portray the protagonist in later years, since he doesn't seem to have progressed in wit or inventiveness. For example, "A Quiet Evening at Home" recollects how recent divorced Maisch spent a night in with his girlfriend, dumped a bucket of snow on her in the shower and made her do a striptease on his cabin's porch for the benefit of his neighbors. It's no surprise the next story begins immediately after she's left him. The perpetual frat-boy tone might have worked if Maisch had some distance or insight on these events, perhaps by presenting a narrative in which he learns from his experiences. Unfortunately, each story is simply another increasingly unfunny episode in his life. The volume's saving grace is the art, much of it by new talents from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Paul Hudson's polish and cheeky sense of fun almost salvages "A Quiet Evening at Home." Nick Rummel's angular style and heavy lines fit in perfectly with a story about a group of college guys looking for (and, of course, finding) trouble in the local nightlife. And Robyn Chapman's soft pencils and almost pointillist backgrounds give an air of sensitivity to a clumsily written tale of young romance.
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From Booklist
Like his more renowned autobiographical-comics compatriot, American Splendor creator Harvey Pekar, Maisch writes the scripts about his heartland experiences and has a team of artists bring them to life (Hampton oversees the artwork). Following the first by seven years, Maisch's second collection includes accounts of a concert, circa 1970, by Bob Segar, then "Michigan's best kept secret"; a "war between the dorms" at Michigan State University; and yarns of his later life as a publicist for a shopping mall. A bittersweet reminiscence of his first high-school romance contrasts movingly with disillusioned stories about adult relationships. Veteran comics artists illustrated its predecessor, but this book showcases younger talents, who make up in exuberance and panache what they lack in slickness. Nothing much extraordinary or exciting seems to happen to Maisch, so many stories relate extended practical jokes and other high jinks, and in general his stories lack the personality and pensiveness of Pekar's work. Yet, these entertaining tales have genuine poignancy, such that others besides graphic-novel mavens should enjoy them. Gordon Flagg
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- PublisherNBM Publishing
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 1561631426
- ISBN 13 9781561631421
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages64
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