The Poor Bastard - Softcover

Matt, Joe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1896597440 ISBN 13: 9781896597447

Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly, 2001

Synopsis

This aptly-titled collects for the first time Joe Matt`s compelling and often hilarious storyline chronicling the crucial moments in his miserable life, beginning with his secret lust for his lover`s best friend, and its ensuing devastating consequences. Ongoing troubles with women, an insatiable obsession with pornography...this poor bastard has serious problems, yet unlike the rest of us, he works them out in full public view, allowing us to get closer to him...maybe a little too close!

About this title

From the Publisher:

In 1987, tired of coloring dopey superhero comics for a living, Joe Matt started writing and drawing a "diary", a torrid, often humorous page-by-page account of his daily life. These single-page comics were later published in various magazines, including Drawn & Quarterly, and by 1992 Matt finally had his own comic book series, Peepshow, devoted completely to his peculiar form of autobiographical angst. Matt was born in 1963 in Philadelphia where, evidently, he never learned the meaning of embarrassment. Throughout Peepshow, he gives us an utterly shameless account of what is, more often than not, some of the great failures of his life, from the gradual disintegration of his earlier relationship, to his later attempts at finding a new girlfriend. Matt's unflattering, although not inaccurate portrayal of himself in his stories have provoked one of the liveliest letter columns in comics, where a typical reader writes: "No wonder you're all alone - you're just a pathetic fucking loser!". At one point in his Peepshow series, Joe Matt left his contemporary troubles behind and focused on something more low-key, a story about his childhood in a Philadelphia suburb. The story, "Fair Weather", will soon be collected in book form by Drawn & Quarterly. Beginning with the release of the 11th issue of "Peepshow", Matt has returned to examining his modern-day foibles in a new storyline that promises to be almost 300 pages in length. If there's any complaints about not being able to stand him for that long, there's always the nice "pictures" to appreciate: with the new red and black two-color printing on tinted paper, Joe Matt has never looked better! Matt's first book, also called Peepshow, was first published in 1992 by Kitchen Sink Press and went on to sell over 10,000 copies in three printings. A new printing was published by Drawn & Quarterly in 1999. His second book, The Poor Bastard, collected the story from the first six issues of his comic book series and was published by Drawn & Quarterly in 1997.

About the Author:

Born in 1963 in Philadelphia, Joe Matt currently lives in a rooming house in Toronto where he spends most of his time editing his treasured collection of "nature films". Occasionally, he finds time to produce his comic book series, Peepshow, the first six issues of which are collected here.

About this edition

• Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1896597440
• ISBN 13: 9781896597447
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176